Table of Contents

• 1. Fundamentals of MRI - Fields and Basic Pulse Sequences
• 2. Fundamentals of Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• 3. Fields and Hardware for MRI
• 4. Tissue/Field Interactions, MRI Safety, and Field-Related Image Artifacts
• 5. MRI-Based Measurement of Field Distributions and Tissue Heating
• 6. Recent and Ongoing Developments
• 7. Conclusion

About the Author

Christopher Collins is a Professor in the Department of Radiology at the New York University School of Medicine. His research interest lies in the engineering and safety of electromagnetic fields in magnetic resonance imaging.