Overview of MRI and basic principles -- RF excitation and signal generation -- Tissue characteristics and contrast agents: PD, T1, and T2 -- Echoes -- Spatial localization and introduction to k-space -- k-space -- More k-space: the relationship between k-space and the image -- Fast scanning and k-space shortcuts -- Selectively saturating, nulling, and exciting protons -- Safety and cardiovascular MRI -- Flow -- Time-of-flight MR angiography -- Phase contrast MRI: flow quantification and MRA -- Gadolinium-enhanced MR angiography -- ECG gating -- Cardiac imaging planes -- Black-blood imaging -- Cine gradient echo imaging -- Tissue characterization in the heart -- Phase contrast flow quantification in the heart -- Ischemic cardiac disease -- Coronary artery imaging.