Instrumentation : magnets, coils, and hardware -- From image formation to image contrast : understanding contrast mechanisms, acquisition strategies, and artifacts -- Contrast agents and relaxation effects -- Disorders of brain development -- Central nervous system manifestations of the phakomatoses -- White matter diseases and inherited metabolic disorders -- Epilepsy -- Adult brain tumors -- Pediatric brain tumors -- Intracranial hemorrhage -- Intracranial vascular malformations and aneurysms -- Cerebral ischemia and infarction -- Head trauma -- Intracranial infection -- Normal aging, dementia, and neurodegenerative disease -- Skull base -- The sella turcica and parasellar region -- Eye and orbit -- Congenital anomalies of the spine and spinal cord : embryology and malformations -- Degenerative disease of the spine -- Neoplastic disease of the spine and spinal cord -- MRI of spinal trauma -- Vascular disorders of the spine and spinal cord -- Spinal infection and inflammatory disorders -- MR angiography : techniques and clinical applications -- MR of fetal brain and spine -- Diffusion and diffusion tensor MR imaging : fundamentals -- Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging -- Psychiatric disorders -- MR spectroscopy and the biochemical basis of neurologic disease -- Functional MRI.