Acknowledgements

MR physics: Acknowledgement

I am deeply indebted to Prof. D.G. Nishimura at Stanford University for providing a copy of his course notes entitled "Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Imaging". These notes served as a critical reference for much of the material in this paper. I also thank Dr. Athos Kasapi for his many comments on earlier drafts of this paper and Mr. Jeff Stainsby, Mr. Chris Macgowan, and Ms. Christine Sudeyko for assistance with the preparation of the manuscript and the figures.