MRM Letter from the Editor: May 2025

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

I imagine that many of you are about to set off to Hawai’i for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the ISMRM. I trust that it will prove to be as stimulating and rewarding as ever. In this month’s issue, as well as the usual range of scientific research papers on magnetic resonance methodology, we also have a review article on adaptable, wearable and stretchable RF coils. It is a publicly accessible article and I encourage you to read about developments in this area. We also have an article on the measurement of oxygen tension in tissue using electron paramagnetic resonance. It is all too easy to forget that the scope of ISMRM (and Magn Reson Med) covers biomedical uses of both magnetic resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance, and it is nice to see the journal hosting a paper on EPR.

At the Hawai’i meeting itself, note that the Editor-in-Chief of our sister journal, J Magn Reson Imaging, and I will be running a training session on effective reviewing for the two Society journals. It will be held on Tuesday 13^th May at 16:45 in Room 319AB of the Hawai’i Convention Center. Please come along if you would like to volunteer to become a reviewer for either journal, or if you just want to know more about how the review process works and what an effective review looks like. 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 wish you safe travels to Honolulu, 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 recently 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.

MAY ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 93, Number 5, May 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:

Ultra-high temporal resolution 4D angiography using arterial spin labeling with subspace reconstruction, by Qijia Shen, Wenchuan Wu, Mark Chiew, Yang Ji, Joseph G. Woods, Thomas W. Okell

May’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:

• Interleaved flow-sensitive dephasing (iFSD): Toward enhanced blood flow suppression and preserved T1 weighting and overall signals in 3D TSE-based neuroimaging, by Qingle Kong, Jiayu Xiao, Mark S. Shiroishi, Nasim Sheikh-Bahaei, Steven Y. Cen, Kasra Khatibi, William J. Mack, Jason C. Ye, Paul E. Kim, Xiaoming Bi, David Saloner, Qi Yang, Eric Chang, Zhaoyang Fan
• Single breath-hold volumetric lung imaging at 0.55T using stack-of-spiral (SoS) out-in balanced SSFP, by Ye Tian, Nam G. Lee, Ziwei Zhao, Alison G. Wilcox, Jorge J. Nieva, Krishna S. Nayak
• Mechanically anisotropic phantoms for magnetic resonance elastography, by Kevin N. Eckstein, Daniel Yoon, Margrethe Ruding, Ramin Balouchzadeh, Aaliyah Thompson-Mazzeo, Ruth J. Okamoto, Curtis L. Johnson, Matthew D. J. McGarry, Philip V. Bayly
• Composite spin probes with adjustable oxygen sensitivity for pulse electron paramagnetic resonance imaging, by Irene Canavesi, Navin Viswakarma, Raman Khurana, Boris Epel, Periannan Kuppusamy, Mark David Pagel, Mrignayani Kotecha

FEATURES

*The MRM Highlights Magazine, Volume 9, is available online! Volume 10 will be posted online soon.

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

May 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)