MRM Letter from the Editor: October 2026

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

As well as the usual latest research in the areas of magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and electron paramagnetic resonance, we also this month publish a review of respiratory motion management in abdominal MRI. We also have a Toolbox Article featuring a real-time reconstruction adjunct to the popular BART software. Toolbox Articles are a relatively new submission category aimed at describing novel and important tools that have value to the wider scientific community. Factors that are considered during review are: (i) the quality and novelty of the tool and whether it addresses an unmet need; (ii) the quality of the description of the tool; (iii) how accessible the tool is for use by the scientific community; and (iv) whether the platform used to distribute the tool is sustainable, with reasonable prospects that the authors will maintain it into the future. Very simple tools, or tools that replicate existing ones or provide minimal value to the community, are not recommended for publication, with a high standard expected for those that are. For further details on this category see the Author Guidelines.

Finally, please note the upcoming deadline for submission of abstracts to the 2027 Annual Meeting in Vancouver. The submissions portal opens on October 1, and the deadline for submission is 23:59 UTC on October 28. For more details please visit here. Good luck!

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.

OCTOBER ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 96, Number 4, October 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.

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

Arc-ZTE: Continuously-Slewed Zero-TE Imaging With Incoherent Temporal Sampling for Near-Silent Dynamic MRI, by Shreya Ramachandran, Tobias C. Wood, Gavin Zhang, Ali B. Syed, Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Michael Lustig

October’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 deadline to submit a manuscript for the 2027 competition has now passed. Finalists for the competition for the Young Investigator Awards for the ISMRM & ISMRT will present their work at the Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, 08-13 May 2027. New submissions to the journal are eligible for consideration for the 2028 meeting in Copenhagen. 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

October Articles
Early View
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