A second edition of a book by Robert Brown, Distinguished University Professor and Institute Professor in the Department of Physics, and his former students recently was published by Wiley-Blackwell. The book, Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physical Principles and Sequence Design, previously has been called the “Green Bible” or “The Big Green Book.” The first edition, which appeared in 1999, has been referred to as the leading textbook in the field of magnetic resonance imaging.