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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 magnetization transfer measurement; time-efficient mouse phenotype imaging; and much more. I encourage you to learn about Mark’s many contributions here.
Next, and as we approach a new year, I want to alert authors that at some point in 2025 Wiley will move Magn Reson Med to its own manuscript management platform, known as Research Exchange (ReX) – currently the journal uses Manuscript Central. This shift will start with the author submission step, which will probably commence sometime in the Spring of 2025. The MRM Editorial Office is working hard to minimize any disruptions that might occur as this transition is made, but I wanted to alert you that it is likely to happen sometime in the coming months. We will try to give a further alert when it does. Subsequently the review process will also transfer to ReX, such that over time all Wiley journals will use this platform. Again, we will try to keep you posted as the new system is rolled out.
For now authors will still use Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mrm) and we continue to ask you to ensure that traffic coming from manuscriptcentral.com (usually via amazonses.com) is not blocked by your email server.
Finally, festive greetings and a happy and prosperous 2025!
Best wishes,
Peter Jezzard, PhD
HEADLINES
- Don’t forget to keep checking Study Group Virtual Special Issues that can be found at the journal homepage. Most ISMRM Study Groups have created Virtual Special Issues, with the aim of summarising the latest research in these topic areas. The idea is to update these at least annually to ensure that they remain “living documents” and hopefully will be a valuable resource to Study Group members.
- In partnership with the Reproducible Research Study Group (RRSG) we are now offering authors the option of a Code Review of any code they provide in a Data Availability Statement. If authors request it, the RRSG will download the code and check that it installs and can be run. For details see here and an editorial on the experiences of the first year of its use here.
JANUARY ISSUE
On the ISMRM Journals page you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 93, Number 1, January 2025 issue. Additionally, clicking on a title in the attached PDF will take you directly to its abstract. To view the entire article, please use either your log-in information for the Wiley website or your institutional access. Note that many papers in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine are published as Open Access articles and can be freely downloaded by anyone.
January’s Cover Art: This month’s cover art is from:
Three contrasts in 3 min: Rapid, high-resolution, and bone-selective UTE MRI for craniofacial imaging with automated deep-learning skull segmentation, by Brian-Tinh Duc Vu, Nada Kamona, Yohan Kim, Jinggang J. Ng, Brandon C. Jones, Felix W. Wehrli, Hee Kwon Song, Scott P. Bartlett, Hyunyeol Lee, Chamith S. Rajapakse
January’s Editor’s Picks: Each month, we highlight articles from the current issue that might be of particular interest to our readers. The articles will be available online to anyone for a period of two years, regardless of their subscription status. This month’s selections are:
- CineVN: Variational network reconstruction for rapid functional cardiac cine MRI, by Marc Vornehm, Jens Wetzl, Daniel Giese, Florian Fürnrohr, Jianing Pang, Kelvin Chow, Rolf Gebker, Rizwan Ahmad, Florian Knoll
- Rational approximation of golden angles: Accelerated reconstructions for radial MRI, by Nick Scholand, Philip Schaten, Christina Graf, Daniel Mackner, Christian M. Holme, Moritz Blumenthal, Andrew Mao, Jakob Assländer, Martin Uecker
- T1 and T2 measurements across multiple 0.55T MRI systems using open-source vendor-neutral sequences, by Kathryn E. Keenan, Bilal Tasdelen, Ahsan Javed, Rajiv Ramasawmy, Rudy Rizzo, Michele N. Martin, Karl F. Stupic, Nicole Seiberlich, Adrienne E. Campbell-Washburn, Krishna S. Nayak
- Spherical echo-planar time-resolved imaging (sEPTI) for rapid 3D quantitative T2* and susceptibility imaging, by Nan Wang, Congyu Liao, Xiaozhi Cao, Mark Nishimura, Yannick W. E. Brackenier, Mahmut Yurt, Mengze Gao, Daniel Abraham, Cagan Alkan, Siddharth Srinivasan Iyer, Zihan Zhou, Hwihun Jeong, Adam Kerr, Justin P. Haldar, Kawin Setsompop
FEATURES
*The MRM Highlights Magazine, Volume 9, is available online!
Recent Q&A articles and special features:
Selection: Open Science Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI)
Selection: Wirelessly interfacing sensor-equipped implants and MR scanners for improved safety and imaging
- Q&A with Berk Silemek and Lukas Winter
- Reproducible Research Insights with Berk Silemek and Lukas Winter
Selection: Fast measurement of the gradient system transfer function at 7 T
Special Features:
- Special MRM Highlights feature: RRSG roundtable discussion on open science, with Cassandra Gould Van Praag
- Special MRM Highlights feature: RRSG podcast on the ISMRM Challenge and reproducibility, with Laura Bortolotti and Sophie Schauman
- 2022-23 ISMRM Challenge – Repeat It With Me: Reproducibility Team Challenge
We’re accepting YIA submissions for the 2026 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa
Our ScholarOne site is open for manuscript submissions in conjunction with the 2026 I.I. Rabi Award for Basic Science and the Prince-Meaney Award in Translational Science to be awarded at the ISMRM 34th Annual Meeting & Exhibition in in Cape Town, South Africa, 09-14 May 2026. The submission deadline will be 12 September 2025. For more information about the YIA competition, please visit here.
Full Issue PDFs
Full Issue PDFs are now available for download. Please follow the link available at the journal home page. You will be prompted for your ISMRM login information.
LINKS OF INTEREST
January Articles
Early View
ISMRM Journal Page
Journal Home Page
Highlights Page
Highlights Print Supplements, including:
– 2016, featuring Erwin Hahn’s interview
– 2017, featuring John Tanner’s interview
– 2018, featuring Al Macovski’s interview
– 2019, featuring Joanne Ingwall’s interview
– 2020, Virtual Issue, Volume 5
– 2021, Virtual Issue, Volume 6
– 2022, Virtual Issue, Volume 7
– 2023, Virtual Issue, Volume 8
– 2024, Virtual Issue, Volume 9
Cover Gallery
Virtual Special Issues
YouTube Channel
Previous Editor’s Picks
Full Issue PDFs (ISMRM login required)
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Peter Jezzard, Editor
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
