MRM Letter from the Editor: November 2026

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

I trust that you survived last week’s ISMRM Abstract submission deadline. It’s always a bit of a scramble at the end. Also, if you offered to be an abstract reviewer (with a deadline that also closed last week) then I hope you enjoy getting a preview of some of the work that will be presented in Vancouver (reviewing abstracts is an important burden to take on, but seeing the latest research before it is available to the wider scientific community is a bonus).

I also want to remind you to keep checking out the Virtual Special Issues (found here). These are collections of articles curated by ISMRM Study Groups for the benefit of their members. They contain links to classic and recent articles published in both Magn Reson Med and J Magn Reson Imaging in the topic area of each Study Group. Over the past month Virtual Special Issues have been updated by the MR Safety Study Group, Cardiac MR Study Group and MRI of White Matter Study Group. There is also one in progress of being updated by the MR in Drug Discovery Study Group, available imminently. I hope that you will find these of use.

Best wishes,

Peter Jezzard, PhD

HEADLINES

The 2026 virtual issue of MRM Highlights is 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).
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.
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

Here you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 96, Number 5, November 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.

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

“Two-For-One”: 4D Cardiac and Pulmonary MR Imaging From a Single Acquisition Using bSTAR, by Pierre Daudé, Jordan Taylor, Joseph W. Plummer, Rajiv Ramasawmy, Anastasia Tsakirellis, Joel Moss, W. Patricia Bandettini, Marcus Chen, Adrienne E. Campbell-Washburn, Ahsan Javed

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 11, is available online!

YIA submissions for the 2028 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark

The deadline to submit a manuscript for the 2027 competition in Vancouver has now passed.

New submissions to the journal are eligible for consideration for the 2028 meeting in Copenhagen. More information about the Copenhagen YIA competition will soon be available 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

Highlights Page

Highlights Print Supplements, including: