According to an aspect of the present inventive concept, there is provided a method of extracting information about a sample, the method comprising: performing a plurality of magnetic resonance measurements on the sample, each measurement including subjecting the sample to an encoding sequence, at least a part of the sequence being adapted to encode a magnetic resonance signal attenuation due to nuclear relaxation and diffusion, wherein at least one parameter of a gradient pulse sequence is varied between at least a subset of said plurality of measurements, and at least one measurement of said subset includes a gradient pulse sequence having a diffusion-encoding tensor representation with more than one non-zero eigenvalue, and wherein at least a subset of said plurality of measurements include encoding for different levels of magnetic resonance signal attenuation due to nuclear relaxation; and extracting information about the sample from signals resulting from said plurality of magnetic resonance measurements, the information including nuclear relaxation and diffusion characteristics for the sample.