MRM Letter from the Editor: January 2026

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

This month’s issue of Magn Reson Med contains 46 articles, which reflects the growth we have seen over the past year in submissions. This is good to see, after a definite drop in submissions immediately after the COVID period during which may labs struggled to work effectively. This is also a sign that research in the area of magnetic resonance methods development continues to be healthy, despite the challenges that we all face in securing grant funding.

Also in this issue is a summary of the ISMRM workshop on Body MRI: Unsolved Problems and Unmet Needs. This article summarises the state of this field, and suggests some future directions. For the very full calendar of ISMRM Workshops to be held in 2026 please see the full list at https://www.ismrm.org/meetings-workshops/future-ismrm-workshops/.

Meanwhile, happy reading, and season’s greetings!

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 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.

JANUARY ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 95, Number 1, January 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.

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

In vitro characterization of hemodynamics in bicuspid aortic valves: The impact of valve and ascending aortic morphologies, by Kaoru Hattori, Natsuki Nakama, Jumpei Takada, Michinobu Nagao, Yasuhiro Goto, Hiroshi Niinami, Kiyotaka Iwasaki

January’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

January Articles
Early View
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