MRM Letter from the Editor: August 2026

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

This seems like a good time to remind Magn Reson Med authors about the Young Investigator Award competition (https://www.ismrm.org/yia), with the prizes awarded during the ISMRM Annual Meeting. There are three awards presented, arising from papers published in the Society’s journals. The W.S. Moore Award is usually presented for a paper published in J Magn Reson Imaging that focuses on clinical research. The I.I. Rabi Award is usually presented for a paper published in Magn Reson Med that focuses on basic science research. And the Prince-Meaney Award is presented for translational science research that may be published in either journal. The submission deadline is 11 September 2026 for papers to be considered for the Young Investigator Award competition in Vancouver, Canada. This is to allow adequate time for the papers to be reviewed before the YIA Committee considers them later this year. YIA papers submitted after that date will be considered for the 2028 meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. The 2026 winners are shown below.

Best wishes,

Peter Jezzard, PhD

HEADLINES

According to the relevant ISI Web of Knowledge™ and Journal Citation Reports® statistics, Magn Reson Med’s 2025 2-year impact factor (released mid-2026) was 2.
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 to I. Rabi Award winner 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.
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.

AUGUST ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 96, Number 2, August 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.

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

Mesoscale Whole-Brain T2*-Weighted and Associated Quantitative MRI in Humans at 10.5 T, by Jiaen Liu, Peter van Gelderen, Jacco A. de Zwart, Jeff H. Duyn, Yujia Huang, Shuxian Qu, Andrea Grant, Edward J. Auerbach, Matt Waks, Russell L. Lagore, Lance Delabarre, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Yigitcan Eryaman, Gregor Adriany, Kamil Uğurbil, Xiaoping Wu

August’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

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