"Version: 20160301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Fundamentals of MRI--fields and basic pulse sequences -- 1.1. Proportionality of net nuclear magnetization to static magnetic field strength, B0 -- 1.2. Classical description of nuclear precession -- 1.3. Manipulating M in a s…