MRM Letter from the Editor: September 2026

Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

We are once again seeking keen writers to help with the forthcoming 12th edition of MRM Highlights. This will next appear at the 2027 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, and we seek expressions of interest from budding writers who would be interested in writing articles and interviewing people for the 2027 issue of MRM Highlights, along with a separate but overlapping project to create electronic content highlighting science presented at the Annual ISMRM meeting itself. Ideas for content will be discussed later this year, and so writing won’t start until late 2026, but we are keen to attract some potential writers at this stage. To see an example of what MRM Highlights looks like please look at the 2026 issue here. If you are interested in joining us, please email the MRM Highlights Editor, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri at me.caligiuri@unicz.it.

Finally, note the submission deadline of 11 September 2026 for papers to be considered for the 2027 Young Investigator Award competition in Vancouver, Canada. YIA papers submitted after that date will be considered for the 2028 meeting in Copenhagen.

Best wishes,

Peter Jezzard, PhD

HEADLINES

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).
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.

SEPTEMBER ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 96, Number 3, September 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.

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

5D Flow MRI Reveals Respiration-Driven Changes in Blood Flow Energetics in Congenital Heart Disease, by Thara Nallamothu, Elizabeth K. Weiss, Justin Baraboo, Joshua D. Robinson, Cynthia K. Rigsby, Christopher W. Roy, Matthias Stuber, Michael Markl

September’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

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

September Articles
Early View
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