The book’s content is designed to serve multiple groups: technologists, clinicians, and clinical
medical physicists. Its organization is such that any institution should be able to rapidly
develop their own program without having to seek out a variety of medical and technical
texts. Technologists are the target audience of the first chapter, being the ones to acquire
the actual cardiac MR data. In chapters 2 and 3, the text focuses on providing clinicians
with suggested imaging protocols, along with clinical examples of the actual imaging
indication. Finally, chapter 4 provides a more technical review of the underlying physical
principles of the various imaging sequences used in cardiac MRI. Although this final section
is quite technical, the authors have provided a general overview of the various concepts
that encompass the physics of cardiac MRI.