MRM Letter from the Editor: October 2025

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

This month we publish an important set of consensus recommendations on multi-center hyperpolarized 13-C pyruvate human studies, describing recommendations resulting from 13 international sites. We also publish a summary of an ISMRM member-initiated session asking the question “MRI for biology-guided radiation therapy: are we there yet?”. Like all Review and Guidelines Articles in Magn Reson Med, these papers are available to all readers without a download fee (for a full list of Review and Guidelines Articles see here).

Note that the 2025 deadline for submitting papers to be considered for the Young Investigator Award competition at the Cape Town 2026 Annual Meeting has now passed, and any papers submitted this month and up until mid-September 2026 will be considered for the 2027 meeting in Vancouver. The reason for this deadline is to allow time to review the YIA manuscripts so that they can be considered by the YIA committee in the Spring, ahead of the ISMRM Annual Meeting. YIA papers published in Magn Reson Med will be considered for the I.I. Rabi YIA Award for original basic science research in magnetic resonance, and the Prince-Meany YIA Award for original translational science research in magnetic resonance. For more details see https://www.ismrm.org/yia/.

Finally, good luck with crafting your ISMRM abstracts for the Cape Town Annual Meeting. Please note that the deadline for ISMRM abstract submission is 23:59 UTC on Wednesday October 29^th 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. 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.

OCTOBER ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 94, Number 4, October 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.

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

Navigator-free multi-shot diffusion MRI via non-local low-rank reconstruction, by Yiming Dong, Xinyu Ye, Chang Li, Matthias J. P. van Osch, Peter Börnert

October’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:

• Consensus recommendations for hyperpolarized [1-13C]pyruvate MRI multi-center human studies, by Shonit Punwani, Peder E. Z. Larson, Christoffer Laustsen, Jan VanderMeulen, Jan Henrik Ardenkjær-Larsen, Adam W. Autry, James A. Bankson, Jenna Bernard, Robert Bok, Lotte Bonde Bertelsen, Jenny Che, Albert P. Chen, Rafat Chowdhury, Arnaud Comment, Charles H. Cunningham, Duy Dang, Ferdia A. Gallagher, Adam Gaunt, Yangcan Gong, Jeremy W. Gordon, Ashley Grimmer, James Grist, Esben Søvsø Szocska Hansen, Mathilde Hauge Lerche, Richard L. Hesketh, Jan-Bernd Hoevener, Ching-Yi Hsieh, Kayvan R. Keshari, Sebastian Kozerke, Titus Lanz, Dirk Mayer, Mary McLean, Jae Mo Park, Jim Slater, Damian Tyler, Jean-Luc Vanderheyden, Cornelius von Morze, Fulvio Zaccagna, Vlad Zaha, Duan Xu, Daniel Vigneron, The HP 13C MRI Consensus Group
• gammaSTAR: A framework for the development of dynamic, real-time capable MR sequences, by Simon Konstandin, Matthias Günther, Daniel C. Hoinkiss
• Simultaneous T1, T2, and T1ρ mapping of the myocardium using cardiac MR fingerprinting with a deep image prior reconstruction, by Sydney Kaplan, Gastao Lima da Cruz, Chaitanya Madamanchi, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Scott Swanson, Jesse Hamilton, Nicole Seiberlich
• Quantitative susceptibility mapping in the human brain at 7T with phase-cycled balanced SSFP, by Berk Can Acikgoz, Cristina Sainz Martinez,  Adèle L. C. Mackowiak,  Nils M. J. Plähn,  Yasaman Safarkhanlo,  Eva S. Peper,  Piotr Radojewski,  Gabriele Bonanno,  João Jorge,  Jessica A. M. Bastiaansen

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

YIA submissions for the 2026 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa

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 have closed. Stay tuned for information on 2027’s competition. 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

October 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)