MRM Letter from the Editor: September 2025

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

This month we publish a review article on oscillating-gradient spin-echo (OGSE) diffusion MRI, describing both the theory and engineering challenges of the method and discussing some of its potential applications in assessing tissue microstructure. Like all Review and Guidelines Articles in Magn Reson Med, this paper is published as a Free Access paper, available to all readers without a download fee (for a full list of Review and Guidelines Articles see here). When combined with the growing fraction of Open Access papers in the journal, this means that less than 1/3 of Magn Reson Med’s content is behind a subscription paywall, with the majority free to download by any reader.

Additionally, we are seeking keen writers to help with the forthcoming 11th edition of MRM Highlights. This will next appear at the 2026 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, and we seek expressions of interest from budding writers who would be interested in writing articles and interviewing people for the 2026 issue of MRM Highlights. Ideas for content will be discussed later this year, and so writing won’t start until late 2025, but we are keen to attract some potential writers at this stage. To see an example of what MRM Highlights looks like please look at the 2025 issue here. If you are interested in joining us, please email the MRM Highlights Editor, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri at me.caligiuri@unicz.it.

Finally, note the submission deadline of 12 September 2025 for papers to be considered for the Young Investigator Award competition in Cape Town, South Africa. YIA papers submitted after that date will be considered for the 2027 meeting in Vancouver.

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 or updated ones from the Pulmonary MR Study Group; the Quantitative MR Study Group; the Placental and Fetal MRI Study Group; the MR in Radiation Therapy Study Group; and the Motion Detection and Correction Study Group!
• In partnership with the Reproducible Research Study Group (RRSG) we offer authors the option of a Code Review of any code they provide in a Data Availability Statement. If authors request it in their cover letter, 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.

SEPTEMBER ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 94, Number 3, September 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.

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

Controlling sharpness, SNR, and specific absorption rate for 3D fast-spin echo at 7T by end-to-end learning, by Peter Dawood, Martin Blaimer, Jürgen Herrler, Patrick Liebig, Simon Weinmüller, Shaihan Malik, Peter M. Jakob, Moritz Zaiss

September’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:

• The effect of concomitant gradient fields on MRI with long readout radial-based trajectories, by Michael A. Malmberg, Henrik Odéen, Seong-Eun Kim, Dennis L. Parker
• Controlling sharpness, SNR, and specific absorption rate for 3D fast-spin echo at 7T by end-to-end learning, by Peter Dawood, Martin Blaimer, Jürgen Herrler, Patrick Liebig, Simon Weinmüller, Shaihan Malik, Peter M. Jakob, Moritz Zaiss
• A pathway toward clinical translation of hyperpolarized [1,4-13C2,2,3-d2]fumarate as an imaging biomarker for early cellular necrosis in vivo, by Jonathan R. Birchall, Pascal Wodtke, Ashley Grimmer, Esben S. S. Hansen, Lotte B. Bertelsen, Nikolaj Bøgh, Marta Wylot, Maria J. Zamora-Morales, Otso Arponen, Ines Horvat-Menih, Elizabeth C. Latimer, Fung Tan, Evita Pappa, Johann Graggaber, Joseph Cheriyan, Kelly Holmes, Matthew J. Locke, Helen Sladen, Joan Boren, Mikko I. Kettunen, Anita Chhabra, Ian B. Wilkinson, Christoffer Laustsen, Kevin Brindle, Mary A. McLean, Ferdia A. Gallagher
• Vendor-agnostic 3D multiparametric relaxometry improves cross-platform reproducibility, by Shohei Fujita, Borjan Gagoski, Jon-Fredrik Nielsen, Maxim Zaitsev, Yohan Jun, Jaejin Cho, Xingwang Yong, Quentin Uhl, Pengcheng Xu, Eugene Milshteyn, Imam Ahmed Shaik, Qiang Liu, Qingping Chen, Onur Afacan, John E. Kirsch, Yogesh Rathi, Berkin Bilgic

FEATURES

*The MRM Highlights Magazine, Volume 10, 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

September 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
• 2025, Virtual Issue, Volume 10

Cover Gallery
Virtual Special Issues
YouTube Channel
Previous Editor’s Picks
Full Issue PDFs (ISMRM login required)