MRM Letter from the Editor: November 2025

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Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

Firstly, a reminder that we are seeking keen writers for the forthcoming MRM Highlights magazine, and we also announce another initiative to celebrate the impact of Magn Reson Med.

With regard to MRM Highlights, the 2026 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, will see the 11th edition of the magazine. We seek expressions of interest from budding writers who would be interested in writing articles and interviewing people for this issue of MRM Highlights. Ideas for content will be discussed soon, and writing will start in late November/early December, 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.

The other initiative is being led by Diego Hernando, one of MRM’s Deputy Editors. He is planning to commission several articles to illustrate the impact of Magn Reson Med (as opposed to the unhelpful and misleading journal Impact Factor!). The idea is that each article will focus on a particular development that first appeared as a scientific paper (or papers) in Magn Reson Med and then tell the story (in a way that is accessible to the general public) of how it has impacted the way that MRI is performed in daily clinical routine. For example, the various parallel imaging approaches were first published in Magn Reson Med, and trace their roots to even earlier papers on phased array MRI coils, also published in Magn Reson Med. The plan is to create a series of articles that tell these stories (perhaps with interviews with some of the inventors), and then publish them on a public-facing part of ISMRM web site. These articles are intended to be highly visible and also linked from the Magn Reson Med home page, the ISMRM web site, and elsewhere. If you are interested in becoming involved in this initiative, please contact Diego at dhernando@wisc.edu.

Finally, note that in this month’s issue of Magn Reson Med you will start to see papers that use a new typesetting and copyediting process, with an updated look. Over the next couple of months all papers published in Magn Reson Med will switch to this new look.

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.

NOVEMBER ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 94, Number 5, November 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.

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

Cerebellar imaging for neuroscience at 9.4 T, by W. van der Zwaag, D. H. Y. Tse, B. A. Poser, N. Priovoulos

November’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:

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)

Selection: Wirelessly interfacing sensor-equipped implants and MR scanners for improved safety and imaging

Selection: Fast measurement of the gradient system transfer function at 7 T

Special Features:

YIA submissions for the 2027 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada

The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine announces the competition for the Young Investigator Awards for the ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, 08-13 May 2027. The deadline to submit a manuscript for the competition is 11 September 2026. 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

November Articles
Early View
ISMRM Journal Page
Journal Home Page
Highlights Page
Highlights Print Supplements, including:

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

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