Course

Ten lessons, read in order. You start from a 2D Cartesian gradient echo and arrive at a 3D radial MPRAGE, then check it, make it a function of its protocol, rebuild it from sequence modules and write a module of your own.

Lesson	Contents
1. Your first gradient echo	Events, blocks, rasters and the .seq file
2. Echo and repetition time	TE and TR set with delays; asymmetric readouts
3. Spoiling	Gradient and RF spoiling and the resulting steady state
4. Labels and metadata	Multislice loops, labels and file definitions for reconstruction
5. Radial sampling and gradient surgery	Radial spokes, golden-angle ordering and merged gradients
6. Radial MPRAGE	Inversion-prepared 3D stack of stars and contrast along the train
7. Hardware and safety checks	Gradient, slew-rate, PNS, mechanical-resonance and SAR checks
8. Sequence functions	Sequence functions, protocol parameters and the command line
9. Sequence modules	MPRAGE rebuilt from the shipped sequence modules
10. Custom sequence module	Custom T2-preparation module