"Version: 20161001"--Title page version."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The basics -- 1.1. A brief history of MRI -- 1.2. Proton spin -- 1.3. The Bloch equations -- 1.4. Signal generation -- 1.5. Spatial encoding using magnetic field gradients -- 1.6. Spatial image formation2. Ma…