MRM Letter from the Editor: April 2025

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

We are now only slightly over a month away from gathering in Hawai’i for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the ISMRM. Don’t forget that early registration for the meeting closes on 10^th April and the housing booking site closes on 18^th April. As ever, it looks like it will be a great meeting, and a chance to catch up with colleagues and see the latest science in the field. Some of the most positively received abstracts, as identified by the reviewers, have been invited to consider sending their eventual full papers to the Society journals when they are ready for submission. So, hopefully MRM and its sister journal JMRI will see some of the great work presented at ISMRM submitted to the journals later in the year. Congratulations to those who received this invitation (albeit noting that it does not guarantee eventual acceptance), and thanks to the AMPC and ISMRM Central Office for co-ordinating this initiative. Also at the Annual Meeting, please look out for this year’s MRM Highlights Magazine (the 10^th issue to have been produced!), edited once again by Maria Eugenia Caligiuri and that will be distributed throughout the Convention Centre.

Meanwhile, I hope your preparations for the Annual Meeting go well, and I look forward to seeing everyone in Hawai’i.

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. We have just added one from the Pulmonary MR Study Group!
• 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.

APRIL ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 93, Number 4, April 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.

April’s Cover Art: This month’s cover art is from:

Romer-EPTI: Rotating-view motion-robust super-resolution EPTI for SNR-efficient distortion-free in-vivo mesoscale diffusion MRI and microstructure imaging, by Zijing Dong, Timothy G. Reese, Hong-Hsi Lee, Susie Y. Huang, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Lawrence L. Wald, Fuyixue Wang

April’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:

• Romer-EPTI: Rotating-view motion-robust super-resolution EPTI for SNR-efficient distortion-free in-vivo mesoscale diffusion MRI and microstructure imaging, by Zijing Dong, Timothy G. Reese, Hong-Hsi Lee, Susie Y. Huang, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Lawrence L. Wald, Fuyixue Wang
• 3D distortion-free, reduced FOV diffusion-prepared gradient echo at 3 T, by Sarah McElroy, Raphael Tomi-Tricot, Jon Cleary, Hsern Ern Ivan Tan, Shawna Kinsella, Sami Jeljeli, Vicky Goh, Radhouene Neji
• ORACLE: An analytical approach for T1, T2, proton density, and off-resonance mapping with phase-cycled balanced steady-state free precession, by Nils M. J. Plähn, Yasaman Safarkhanlo, Berk C. Açikgöz, Adèle L. C. Mackowiak, Piotr Radojewski, Gabriele Bonanno, Eva S. Peper, Rahel Heule, Jessica A. M. Bastiaansen
• Microstructure-Informed Myelin Mapping (MIMM) from routine multi-echo gradient echo data using multiscale physics modeling of iron and myelin effects and QSM, by Mert Şişman, Thanh D. Nguyen, Alexandra G. Roberts, Dominick J. Romano, Alexey V. Dimov, Ilhami Kovanlikaya, Pascal Spincemaille, Yi Wang

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)
• • Q&A with the OSIPI Leadership: Laura Bell, Ben Dickie, Petra Houdt, Henk Mutsaerts, and Yuriko Suzuki
• 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
• • Q&A with Hannah Scholten and Herbert Köstler
  • Reproducible Research Insights with Hannah Scholten
• 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 34^th 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

April 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)