MRM Letter from the Editor: April 2026

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

We’re only a month away from the Annual Meeting in Cape Town, the first time the ISMRM Annual Meeting has been on the African continent. Hopefully we will have a strong representation from South Africa and other African countries, and in these times of conflict we will be reminded of the strong global community that ISMRM represents. For anyone interested, note that there is a session organized by the Junior Fellows on “Publishing, Peer Review, and Ideas that (Almost) Made It”. This will be on the Monday at 13:50, so look out for that. Also at the 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 Centre. 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.

Finally, don’t forget that early registration for the 2026 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Cape Town closes on 9 April 2026.

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 Ulta 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; 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.

APRIL ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 95, Number 4, April 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.

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

Fast and Accurate Abdominal PDFF and R2* Mapping With Model-Fitted Flip Angle Modulation and Simultaneous Multi-Slice (SMS) 2D Imaging, by Chuanli Cheng, Liwen Wan, Hao Peng, Qian Wan, Xin Liu, Dong Liang, Hairong Zheng, Chao Zou

April’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

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