Book excerpt: The Mayo Clinic Guide to Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Second Edition, is a thoroughly handy reference text and soon to be classic text is designed to educate physicists, technologists, and clinicians in the basics of cardiac MRI. A significantly expanded and reworked clinical imaging section provides numerous imaging protocols for the most commonly indicated cardiac MRI examinations as well as a plethora of well illustrated and described clinical examples. This text is a must have for anyone interested in developing their own cardiovascular MR imaging practice or advancing their existing skills. The addition of case-based questions and answers add a new dimension to this expanded second edition.