Peter A. Rinck is a Royal University Profes­sor of Radiology and Magnetic Resonance and has a Doctorate in History of Medicine. After a classical school education he at­tended medical school in Berlin (Free Uni­versity of Berlin) and served his internship and residency in radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy at Charlottenburg University Hospital in Berlin. Afterwards, until 1983, he was involved in the very early development of magnetic resonance imaging as Senior Research Associate at the State Universi­ty of New York at Stony Brook where he worked in Paul C. Lauterbur's research group (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2003). The first version of this textbook was written at this time. Subsequently Rinck worked as physi­cian-in-charge of one of the first two German gov­ernment spon­so­red MR machines in Wies­baden, Germany. Between 1987 and 1994 he was head of Europe's biggest clinical and research MR facility, at that time, at the University of Trondheim, Norway. Between 1986 and 2012 he was also Adjunct Pro­fes­sor at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Mons-Hainaut in Belgium. Since 1982 Rinck is Chairman of the European Magnetic Resonance Forum, EMRF, and since 2008 President of the Council of The Round Table Foundation, TRTF. He is also Chairman of the Selection Committees of the the Pro Academia Prize and of the European Magnetic Reso­nance Award.