MRM Letter from the Editor: June 2026

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

I hope you had a fun and stimulating Annual Meeting trip to Cape Town. It was great to see those who were able to make it. If you were able to attend you may have seen people with a “MRM Distinguished Ribbon” attached to their badge. This year there were 289 of these ribbons awarded (or at least offered to the subset that came to Cape Town). A number of people asked me how these are awarded. The answer is that anyone who provides five reviews for Magn Reson Med over a two-calendar-year period, and who returns them within the requested 21-day review time, should be awarded a ribbon. We are very grateful to all our reviewers, but especially these most dedicated reviewers. Peer review remains the bedrock of communicating our science, and also helps reviewers stay up to date with developments in their field. If you would like to review for Magn Reson Med, and have some experience as an author (a handful of papers is enough, especially if some are in this journal), then feel free to send us a brief CV and keywords for your expertise (to mrm@ismrm.org). I would be happy to pass on any volunteers to the most relevant Deputy Editor(s) who handle the review assignments.

Best wishes,

Peter Jezzard, PhD

HEADLINES

The newest virtual issue of MRM Highlights is now online! There are several articles about MRI in Africa, along with interviews with the 2025/26 ISMRM and ISMRT presidents, and features on all the YIA finalists (see below for the winners).

The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine announced the winners of the competition for the 2026 Young Investigator Awards held in Cape Town, South Africa Congratulations toI. Rabi Awardwinner Saurin Kantesaria, Ph.D., University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA for the Magn Reson Med article, Designing B1-Selective Pulses by Frequency Modulating in a Second Rotating Frame.More information on the awards and runners-up can be found here.

The Top 5 most cited papers published in 2023 (contributing to the latest Impact Factor) appear below:

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 ones that are imminent from the Diffusion MR Study Group and the CEST 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.

JUNE ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 95, Number 6, June 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.

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

A High-Definition 3D-Printed Anthropomorphic MR Head Phantom, by Stefan Popescu, Thomas Allmendinger, Reut Reina, Ido Bitan

June’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 11, 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

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