MRM Letter from the Editor: May 2026

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

Hopefully, many of you are preparing to set off to wonderful Cape Town for this year’s ISMRM Annual Meeting. Please look out for this year’s MRM Highlights Magazine (the 11^th issue to have been produced!), edited once again by Maria Eugenia Caligiuri and that will be distributed throughout the Convention Center. There is a collection of articles about MRI and ISMRM in Africa, as well as interviews with both the ISMRM and ISMRT Presidents, the YIA finalists, and two of the past YIA winners (from 25 years ago), not to mention a peek behind the scenes with MRM’s Managing Editor, Shannon Stepanian, and Editorial Assistant, Brandi Conroy.

Also, as a reminder, there is a session organized by the Junior Fellows on “Meet the Editor: Publishing, Peer Review, and Ideas that (Almost) Made It”. This will be on the Monday at 13:50 in Room 1.40, and will include talks by MRM Deputy Editors Diego Hernando, Susie Huang and Peter Barker, as well as one from me. We will aim to provide a peek inside the editorial process, plus demystify the peer review process, and cover responsible use of AI in publications. Please come along if you can.

Finally, and related to the Junior Fellow session, I want to encourage you to agree to review for the journal when you are asked to. With the proliferation of new journals we are having increasing difficulty in securing willing reviewers. It is part of the ‘fun’ and obligation of academic life to review, and so please consider agreeing when you are invited, especially if you are a co-author on a paper submitted to Magn Reson Med (we will need to find reviewers for your paper too!). It’s also a great way of getting a preview of the literature in your sub-field before it is published. Hopefully the Junior Fellow session will give you a better idea of how the system works, especially if you are new to reviewing papers (or would like to start).

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 Ultra High Field Study Group; the Pulmonary MR Study Group; the Quantitative MR Study Group; the Placental and Fetal MRI Study Group; the MR in Radiation Therapy Study Group; the Motion Detection and Correction Study Group; the MR Elastography Study Group; and one that is imminent from the Diffusion MR 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.

MAY ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 95, Number 5, May 2026 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.

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

Comparison of Signal- and Volume-Based Ventilation-Weighted Assessment Using 3D FLORET UTE MRI in Patients With Various Pulmonary Disease, by Filip Klimeš, Joseph W. Plummer, Andreas Voskrebenzev, Marcel Gutberlet, Marius M. Klein, Matthew M. Willmering, Alexander M. Matheson, Abdullah S. Bdaiwi, Frank Wacker, Jason C. Woods, Zackary I. Cleveland, Laura L. Walkup, Jens Vogel-Claussen

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:

FEATURES

*The MRM Highlights Magazine, Volume 10, is available online!

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

May Articles
Early View
ISMRM Journal Page
Journal Home Page
Highlights Page