OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Investigative Radiology is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Artifact Reduction in Interventional Devices Using Virtual Monoenergetic Images and Iterative Metal Artifact Reduction on Photon-Counting Detector CT	164
Contrast-Enhanced 3D Spin Echo T1-Weighted Sequence Outperforms 3D Gradient Echo T1-Weighted Sequence for the Detection of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions on 3.0 T Brain MRI	98
Advanced Neuroimaging With Photon-Counting Detector CT	81
CT- and MRI-Aided Fluorescence Tomography Reconstructions for Biodistribution Analysis	76
Novel Clinically Translatable Iron Oxide Nanoparticle for Monitoring Anti-CD47 Cancer Immunotherapy	75
Clinical Utility of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Gynecological Imaging	73
Influence of Contrast Media Temperature and Concentration on Patient Comfort and Safety in Computed Tomography	63
Metal Artifact Reduction in Photon-Counting Detector CT	62
Addressing the Contrast Media Recognition Challenge	60
Implementing Artificial Intelligence for Emergency Radiology Impacts Physicians' Knowledge and Perception	57
Muscle Reference Values From Thoracic and Abdominal CT for Sarcopenia Assessment	57
Deep Learning Reconstruction of Prospectively Accelerated MRI of the Pancreas	56
MR Safety of Inductively Coupled and Conventional Intraoral Coils	52
A New Iterative Metal Artifact Reduction Algorithm for Both Energy-Integrating and Photon-Counting CT Systems	51
T2 Turbo Spin Echo With Compressed Sensing and Propeller Acquisition (Sampling k-Space by Utilizing Rotating Blades) for Fast and Motion Robust Prostate MRI	50
Risk of Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Computed Tomography	49
A New Era in Magnetic Resonance Contrast Media	48
Artificial Intelligence to Reduce or Eliminate the Need for Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents in Brain and Cardiac MRI	48
Deep Learning Reconstruction Combined With Conventional Acceleration Improves Image Quality of 3 T Brain MRI and Does Not Impact Quantitative Diffusion Metrics	47
Gadolinium Elimination in a Gadolinium Deposition Disease Population After a Single Exposure to Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents	46
Focused Ultrasound	46
Protein MRI Contrast Agents as an Effective Approach for Precision Molecular Imaging	44
Clinical Efficacy of Gadobutrol: Review of Over 25 Years of Use Exceeding 100 Million Administrations	43
Accuracy of Nodule Volume and Airway Wall Thickness Measurement Using Low-Dose Chest CT on a Photon-Counting Detector CT Scanner	42
Computed Tomography 2.0	42

First Experience With a Whole-Body Spectral Photon-Counting CT Clinical Prototype	42
Breast DWI Analyzed Before and After Gadolinium Contrast Administration—An Intrapatient Analysis on 1.5 T and 3.0 T	39
Motion-Compensated Multishot Pancreatic Diffusion-Weighted Imaging With Deep Learning–Based Denoising	38
Differentiating Macrovascular and Microvascular Ischemia Using Fractal Analysis of Dynamic Myocardial Perfusion Stress-CT	38
Oral Manganese Chloride Tetrahydrate: A Novel Magnetic Resonance Liver Imaging Agent for Patients With Renal Impairment	34
Quantification of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Vascular Dynamics With Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for LI-RADS Implementation	34
Fat Fractions of the Rotator Cuff Muscles Acquired With 2-Point Dixon MRI	33
Clinical Safety of Gadobutrol: Review of Over 25 Years of Use Exceeding 100 Million Administrations	33
Impact of a Prototype 29:1 Ratio Grid on Image Quality and Radiation Dose in Abdominal Angiography	33
Detectability of Breast Cancer in Dedicated Breast CT Compared With Mammography Dependent on Breast Density	33
Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of a Novel Macrocyclic Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent, HNP-2006, in Healthy Subjects	33
Characterizing the Heart and the Myocardium With Photon-Counting CT	32
Radiomics and Deep Learning for Disease Detection in Musculoskeletal Radiology	31
What Is the Added Value of DWI Compared With Structured Assessment of BI-RADS Criteria by the Kaiser Score? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	31
Free-Breathing Respiratory Triggered High-Pitch Lung CT	31
BOA	30
Brachial Plexus Magnetic Resonance Neurography	30
Pilot Tone‐Triggered MRI for Quantitative Assessment of Cardiac Function, Motion, and Structure	29
Normal Brain and Brain Tumor ADC	29
MRI Dixon Fat-Corrected Look-Locker T1 Mapping for Quantification of Liver Fibrosis and Inflammation—A Comparison With the Non–Fat-Corrected Shortened Modified Look-Locker Inversion Recovery Technique	27
Usefulness of Breath-Hold Fat-Suppressed T2-Weighted Images With Deep Learning–Based Reconstruction of the Liver	27
Relevance of Prostatic Fluid on the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient	27
Ultra-High-Resolution T2-Weighted PROPELLER MRI of the Rectum With Deep Learning Reconstruction	25
High-Resolution Free-Breathing Chemical-Shift-Encoded MRI for Characterizing Lymph Nodes in the Upper Abdomen	25
Relationship of Dose and Signal Enhancement Properties of Gadoquatrane, a New Tetrameric, Macrocyclic Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent, Compared With Gadobutrol	25
ADAMTS4-Specific MR Peptide Probe for the Assessment of Atherosclerotic Plaque Burden in a Mouse Model	25
Artificial T1-Weighted Postcontrast Brain MRI	24
Pharmacokinetics, Safety, and Tolerability of the Novel Tetrameric, High-Relaxivity, Macrocyclic Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent Gadoquatrane in Healthy Adults	24
Quantitative Liver Imaging in Children	23
MRI of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders: A Comparative Study of 0.55 T and 1.5 T MRI	23
Accurate Diagnosis of Cortical and Infratentorial Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis Using Accelerated Fluid and White Matter Suppression Imaging	23
Current Status of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Use in Bladder Cancer	23
Audiovisual Breathing Guidance for Improved Image Quality and Scan Efficiency of T2- and Diffusion-Weighted Liver MRI	22
Countering Calcium Blooming With Personalized Contrast Media Injection Protocols	22
Hot Topics in Diagnostic Imaging—Encompassing Advances in MR, Photon-Counting CT, and Ultrasound	22
Photon-Counting Versus Energy-Integrating Detector CT Angiography of the Lower Extremity in a Human Cadaveric Model With Continuous Extracorporeal Perfusion	22
ComBat Harmonization for MRI Radiomics	22
Highly Sensitive 3-Tesla Real Inversion Recovery MRI Detects Leptomeningeal Contrast Enhancement in Chronic Active Multiple Sclerosis	21
A Novel Reconstruction Technique to Reduce Stair-Step Artifacts in Sequential Mode Coronary CT Angiography	21
Multimodal In Vivo Tracking of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells in Preclinical Glioblastoma Models	21
Improved MR Detection of Optic Nerve Demyelination With MP2RAGE-FLAWS Compared With T2-Weighted Fat-Saturated Sequences	21
Ultra-High-Resolution and K-Edge Imaging of Prosthetic Heart Valves With Spectral Photon-Counting CT	21
Diagnostic Performance of 0.55 T MRI for Intracranial Aneurysm Detection	20
Elemental Bioimaging of Sheep Bone and Articular Cartilage After Single Application of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents	20
Moving Beyond CT Body Composition Analysis	20
Noninvasive 3-Dimensional 1H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Brain Glucose and Neurotransmitter Metabolism Using Deuterium Labeling at 3T	20
Artificial Intelligence and Interstitial Lung Disease	20
Machine Learning–Based Perivascular Space Volumetry in Alzheimer Disease	20
Hip Imaging in Children With Cerebral Palsy	20
A Comprehensive Overview of the Efficacy and Safety of Gadopiclenol: A New Contrast Agent for MRI of the CNS and Body	20

MR Elastography in Cancer	19
Standardization and Quantitative Imaging With Photon-Counting Detector CT	19
The Importance of Temporal Resolution for Ultra-High-Resolution Coronary Angiography	19
T1 Mapping of the Prostate Using Single-Shot T1FLASH	19
Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging	19
Ultra-High-Resolution Photon-Counting CT Imaging of the Chest	19
Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents and Free Gadolinium Inhibit Differentiation and Activity of Bone Cell Lineages	18
A Comprehensive Machine Learning Benchmark Study for Radiomics-Based Survival Analysis of CT Imaging Data in Patients With Hepatic Metastases of CRC	18
Contrast Agent Dose Reduction in MRI Utilizing a Generative Adversarial Network in an Exploratory Animal Study	18
Accelerated Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in 3 T Breast MRI Using a Deep Learning Reconstruction Algorithm With Superresolution Processing	18
Photon-Counting Detector CT	18
Preclinical Safety Assessment of Gadopiclenol: A High-Relaxivity Macrocyclic Gadolinium-Based MRI Contrast Agent	18
Comprehensive Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Gadolinium, Iron, Manganese, and Phosphorus in the Brain of Healthy Rats After High-Dose Administrations of Gadodiamide and Gadobutrol	17
Accelerated High-Resolution Deep Learning Reconstruction Turbo Spin Echo MRI of the Knee at 7 T	17
7 T Lumbosacral Plexus Neurography	17
High-Pitch Multienergy Coronary CT Angiography in Dual-Source Photon-Counting Detector CT Scanner at Low Iodinated Contrast Dose	17
Better Together	17
Photon-Counting Detector CT Applications in Musculoskeletal Radiology	17
Artificial Intelligence–Driven Ultra-Fast Superresolution MRI	16
Deep Learning Reconstructed New-Generation 0.55 T MRI of the Knee—A Prospective Comparison With Conventional 3 T MRI	16
The Potential of Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Enhanced MRI at 7 T Compared With 3 T for Detecting Small Suspicious Lymph Nodes in Patients With Prostate Cancer	16
Panoramic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Breast With a Wearable Coil Vest	16
Validation of Combined Deep Learning Triaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis in 2901 Breast MRI Examinations From the Second Screening Round of the Dense Tissue and Early Breast Neoplasm Screening Trial	16
Photon-Counting CT Iodine Maps for Diagnosing Chronic Pulmonary Thromboembolism	16
7 T Lesion-Attenuated Magnetization-Prepared Gradient Echo Acquisition for Detection of Posterior Fossa Demyelinating Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis	15
Impact of the Novel MRI Contrast Agent Gadopiclenol on Radiotherapy Decision Making in Patients With Brain Metastases	14
Reduction of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents in MRI Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Different Input Protocols	14
Inflammatory Knee Synovitis	14
Multiarterial Phase Acquisition in Gadoxetic Acid–Enhanced Liver MRI for the Detection of Hypervascular Hepatocellular Carcinoma in High-Risk Patients	14
Influence of Image Processing on Radiomic Features From Magnetic Resonance Imaging	14
AI-Based Measurement of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis on MRI	14
Gadolinium Deposition Disease	14
Dark-Field Chest Radiography Outperforms Conventional Chest Radiography for the Diagnosis and Staging of Pulmonary Emphysema	14
Photon Counting Detector CT-Based Virtual Noniodine Reconstruction Algorithm for In Vitro and In Vivo Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Impact of Virtual Monoenergetic and Quantum Iterative Reconstruct	14
Pharmacokinetics and Tolerability of the Cancer-Targeting MRI Contrast Agent MT218 in Healthy Males	14
Toward Precision Diagnosis	14
Glutathione in the Pons Is Associated With Clinical Status Improvements in Subacute Spinal Cord Injury	14
Deep Learning–Based Signal Amplification of T1-Weighted Single-Dose Images Improves Metastasis Detection in Brain MRI	14
Epineural Scarring Visualization and Noninvasive Quantification of a Severe Posttraumatic Complication	14
Multifrequency Magnetic Resonance Elastography Detects Small Abdominal Lymph Node Metastasis by High Stiffness	13
Reduced Iodinated Contrast Media Administration in Coronary CT Angiography on a Clinical Photon-Counting Detector CT System	13
3D Acoustic Wave Sparsely Activated Localization Microscopy With Phase Change Contrast Agents	13
Artifact Reduction From Dental Material in Photon-Counting Detector Computed Tomography Data Sets Based on High-keV Monoenergetic Imaging and Iterative Metal Artifact Reduction Reconstructions—Can We	13
Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Aneurysmal Inflammation Using a Redox Active Iron Complex	13
Amplifying the Effects of Contrast Agents on Magnetic Resonance Images Using a Deep Learning Method Trained on Synthetic Data	13
Image Quality and Radiation Exposure in Abdominal Angiography	13
Implementation of an AI Algorithm in Clinical Practice to Reduce Missed Incidental Pulmonary Embolisms on Chest CT and Its Impact on Short-Term Survival	13
Morphological and Quantitative Parametric MRI Follow-up of Cartilage Changes Before and After Intra-articular Injection Therapy in Patients With Mild to Moderate Knee Osteoarthritis	13
Liver Cancer Vascularity Driven by Extracellular Matrix Stiffness	12
Deep Learning–Enhanced Accelerated 2D TSE and 3D Superresolution Dixon TSE for Rapid Comprehensive Knee Joint Assessment	12
Evaluation of the Contrast Enhancement Performance of Gadopiclenol for Magnetic Resonance Angiography in Healthy Rabbits and Pigs	12
Quantitative MRI for Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Disease	12
Advancing Medical Imaging Research Through Standardization	12
Skin Thickening of the Scalp and High Signal Intensity of Dentate Nucleus in Multiple Sclerosis	12
Scientific Advances and Technical Innovations in Musculoskeletal Radiology	12