Proton (1H) field-cycling (FC) NMR relaxometry is applied to monitor the crossover in the segmental subdiffusion from the Rouse to the constrained Rouse regime in an entangled linear polymer melt. The method probes the dispersion of the spin–lattice relaxation rate R (?). Via Fourier transformation the segmental mean square displacement ?r2(t)? is calculated from the intermolecular relaxation contribution R inter(?) to the total 1H spin–lattice relaxation dispersion R (?).