ISMRM's MR Pulse Blog

In my office a few years back, the chair of OB was proposing a ratio of nocturnalists to midwives to cover his service. In many of these conversations, I have to try and interpret unfamiliar vocabulary (really jargon) without making visible my ignorance. Nocturnalists, I learned, were a type of hospitalist that delivers babies during […]

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers, Along with the usual range of research articles, we start this month’s issue with a tribute to R. Mark Henkelman, who sadly passed away earlier in 2024 after a long illness. Mark was a giant in the field, and made contributions across many areas including artifact elimination; quantitative relaxation and […]

Updates from the AMPC & Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts We are thrilled to announce that we received a record-high number of abstract submissions. Congratulations to all of you who made it through this highly competitive process! All submitted abstracts underwent a rigorous standard procedure and received at least three reviews per abstract (most received five). […]

Looking Ahead: Record Abstracts, Europe MiniHub & Community Connections As the winter holiday period passes, with the January construction meeting come and gone, I hope that your thoughts are turning to our annual meeting in Hawai’i this coming May. Congratulations to those with accepted abstracts, and thank you for submitting your work to us. This […]

ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting 2025: Call for Abstracts, Reviewers & Moderators! Attention ISMRM & ISMRT members! The countdown is on: there are only about 3 weeks left to submit your abstract for the 2025 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The deadline is 06 November 2024, so now is the […]

Shaping the Future: Survey Insights & Exciting New Abstract Initiative In this second blog, I would like to discuss two topics: the post-conference survey results and a new abstract initiative. I’ll start with the survey, and then hand it over to my guest writer, Dr. Laura Bell, for the second part. Survey Results During the […]

From Bullet Points to Blogging As anyone who knows me will attest, I do not blog and I do not do Social Media I do emails with bullet points, so writing the President’s Blog is a bit of a stretch. Bear with me. I do think that many folk wonder what happens within ISMRM between […]

See You in Hawaiʻi! The Weather There Is Delightful. Our meeting in Singapore was fantastic. Kudos to our former program chair Brian Hargreaves! And life moves forward. Now, I’d like to direct your attention to the next destination: Honolulu. Our theme for next year will be Towards a Healthier Footprint. We will thus be talking a lot […]

Embracing the Future of MRI: A Journey from Passion to Leadership in ISMRM Magnetic resonance imaging is the imaging love of my life. I love the information that it reveals to me as a diagnostic radiologist. It tells me the secrets of disease—both morphologically and also physiologically. I find MRI astonishing and never boring. My […]

By Maria Eugenia Caligiuri  We are proud to bring you, in digital format, the 2024 edition of MRM Highlights magazine, and invite members of the ISMRM community to scroll below to browse its pages. Alternatively, click here to download the PDF. This year’s cover story, “Forty Years of Magn Reson Med: But How Did It […]

Singapore 2024: Navigating the Meeting (updated 03 May) The program is ready! As of Friday 19 April, you can see all the abstracts together with the educational, plenary, and special sessions. How do you decide what to look at first and make sure you get to as many interesting sessions as you can? This blog is all about […]

Singapore 2024: Oral Presentations Less than a month away! As you can see, the program is looking very complete, and I know you are all working on your posters and presentations. The upload site for the new digital posters is open; please upload these in advance of arriving in Singapore to be sure they work. In […]