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Papers

(The median citation count of Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Diffusion MR Imaging with T2-based Water Suppression (T2wsup-dMRI)	60
High-resolution Diffusion-weighted Imaging of the Prostate Using Multiplexed Sensitivity-encoding: Comparison with the Conventional and Reduced Field-of-view Techniques	55
Voxel-based Morphometry of Alzheimer’s Disease Using a Localizer Image: A Comparative Study with Magnetization Prepared Rapid Acquisition with Gradient Echo	27
Nature of the Intracellular-contrast-enhancing Fat-saturated T1-weighted Gradient-echo (ICE-TIGRE) Sequence: A Fat-suppressed T1-weighted Technique with Motion-sensitised Driven-equilibrium for Improv	22
Advanced Diffusion MR Imaging for Multiple Sclerosis in the Brain and Spinal Cord	21
Deep Learning and Its Application to Function Approximation for MR in Medicine: An Overview	21
Current State of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Applications for Head and Neck MR Imaging	21
Contrast Enhancement of the Normal Infundibular Recess Using Heavily T2-weighted 3D FLAIR	20
Intraoperative MR Imaging during Glioma Resection	19
EIC Remarks for a Special 20th Anniversary Issue of MRMS	17
New Insights into MR Safety for Implantable Medical Devices	17
Quiet Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging of the Brain for Pediatric Patients with Moyamoya Disease	15
Creatine Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (Cr-CEST) Imaging Can Evaluate Cisplatin-induced Testicular Damage	15
Associating the Severity of Emphysema with Coronary Flow Reserve and Left Atrial Conduit Function for the Emphysema Patients with Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease	14
<i>Ex-vivo</i> 1.5T MR Imaging versus CT in Estimating the Size of the Pathologically Invasive Component of Lung Adenocarcinoma Spectrum Lesions	12
Does the Pulsatile Non-uniform Flow Matter in MR Flowmetry?	11
Survey of Delivery Outcomes for Employees at MR Imaging Facilities in Japan Based on Information Recorded in the Maternal and Child Health Handbook	11
An Intra-individual Comparison between Free-breathing Dynamic MR Imaging of the Liver Using Stack-of-stars Acquisition and the Breath-holding Method Using Cartesian Sampling or View-sharing	11
Feasibility Study for a Microstrip Transmission Line RF Coil Integrated with a PET Detector Module in a 7T Human MR Imaging System	11
Motility Mapping Quantification Using the Classical Optical Flow Algorithm for Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease: Comparison with Balloon-assisted Enteroscopy Findings	10
Feasibility of Diffusion-weighted Imaging (DWI) for Assessing Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics: DWI-fluidography in the Brains of Healthy Subjects	10
Using Spin-labeled MR Imaging to Depict Slow Pancreatic Juice Flow	10
Recent Advances and Future Directions in Brain MR Imaging Studies in Schizophrenia: Toward Elucidating Brain Pathology and Developing Clinical Tools	10
Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping versus R2*-based Histogram Analysis for Evaluating Liver Fibrosis: Preliminary Results	10
Morphological Observation of the Pupal Body of <i>Trypoxylus dichotomus</i> Using 9.4T MR Imaging	9

Study of Power Equivalent Continuous Approximation Based on the Recent Consensus Recommendations for Brain Tumor Imaging with Pulsed Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer at 3T	9
Increased Diastolic Energy Loss Associated with Cardiac Events in Adults with Pulmonary Atresia Suffering from Intact Ventricular Septum	9
Clinical Application of Quantitative MR Imaging in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease	9
<i>In vivo</i> Human MR Spectroscopy Using a Clinical Scanner: Development, Applications, and Future Prospects	8
Recent Advances in MR Imaging-based Quantification of Brain Oxygen Metabolism	8
Deep Learning-based Hierarchical Brain Segmentation with Preliminary Analysis of the Repeatability and Reproducibility	8
Preoperative Localization of Parathyroid Adenomas with Diffusion MR Imaging: Readout-segmented versus Single-shot Echo-planar Imaging	7
Hemodynamic Parameters for Cardiovascular System in 4D Flow MRI: Mathematical Definition and Clinical Applications	6
Evaluating Biliary Malignancy with Measured and Calculated Ultra-high b-value Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging at 3T	6
Evaluation and Prediction of Treatment Response for Hepatocellular Carcinoma	6
Artificial Intelligence in Obstetric and Gynecological MR Imaging	6
Quality Control for 4D Flow MR Imaging	6
<i>In-vitro</i> Detection of Intramammary-like Macrocalcifications Using Susceptibility-weighted MR Imaging Techniques at 1.5T	6
Advantages of Using Both Voxel- and Surface-based Morphometry in Cortical Morphology Analysis: A Review of Various Applications	6
The Utility of Arterial Transit Time Measurement for Evaluating the Hemodynamic Perfusion State of Patients with Chronic Cerebrovascular Stenosis or Occlusive Disease: Correlative Study between MR Ima	5
What Is the “Glymphatic System”?	5
Measurement of Turbulent Kinetic Energy in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Using Triple-velocity Encoding 4D Flow MR Imaging	5
Diagnostic Efficacy of Diffusion-weighted Imaging in Distinguishing Chronic Diffuse Sclerosing Osteomyelitis from Suppurative Osteomyelitis of the Mandible	5
Development of an Add-on <sup>23</sup>Na-MRI Radiofrequency Platform for a <sup>1</sup>H-MRI System Using a Crossband Repeater: Proof-of-concept	5
Effect of Saturation Pulse Duration and Power on pH-weighted Amide Proton Transfer Imaging: A Phantom Study	5
Comparing Characteristics of Pelvic High-grade Serous Carcinomas with and without Breast Cancer Gene Variants on MR Imaging	5
Performance of a Flexible 12-Channel Head Coil in Comparison to Commercial 16- And 24-Channel Rigid Head Coils	5
Utility of Thin-slice Fat-suppressed Single-shot T2-weighted MR Imaging with Deep Learning Image Reconstruction as a Protocol for Evaluating the Pancreas	5
Bloch Simulation of a Three-point Dixon Experiment Using a Four-dimensional Numerical Phantom	5
Direct Visualization of Tracer Permeation into the Endolymph in Human Patients Using MR Imaging	4
Kidney R2* Mapping for Noninvasive Evaluation of Iron Overload in Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria	4
Computational Design of a Thermal Applicator for Brain Hyperthermia Controlled by Capacitor Positioning in Loop Coils	4
Advanced Techniques for MR Neuroimaging	4
Utility of Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging for Evaluating the Depth of Invasion in Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma	4
Model-based Deep Learning Reconstruction Using a Folded Image Training Strategy for Abdominal 3D T1-weighted Imaging	4
Simultaneous Arterial and Venous Imaging Using 3D Quantitative Parameter Mapping	4
Low <i>b</i>-value Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Analyze the Dynamics of Cerebrospinal Fluid: Resolving Intravoxel Pseudorandom Motion into Ordered and Disordered Motions	4
Clinical Applications of 4D Flow MRI in the Portal Venous System	3
Update on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hepatobiliary MR Imaging	3
Ultra-short Echo-time MR Angiography Combined with a Subtraction Method to Assess Intracranial Aneurysms Treated with a Flow-diverter Device	3
Physical Exercise Alters Egress Pathways for Intrinsic CSF Outflow: An Investigation Performed with Spin-labeling MR Imaging	3
Development of a Car-mounted Mobile MR Imaging System for Diagnosis of Sports-related Wrist Injury	3
Effect of Deep Learning Reconstruction on Respiratory-triggered T2-weighted MR Imaging of the Liver: A Comparison between the Single-shot Fast Spin-echo and Fast Spin-echo Sequences	3
High Resolution TOF-MRA Using Compressed Sensing-based Deep Learning Image Reconstruction for the Visualization of Lenticulostriate Arteries: A Preliminary Study	3
Peripheral Retinal Leakage after Intravenous Administration of a Gadolinium-based Contrast Agent: Age Dependence, Temporal and Inferior Predominance and Potential Implications for Eye Homeostasis	3
Quantitative T2 Mapping to Discriminate Mucinous from Nonmucinous Adenocarcinoma in Rectal Cancer: Comparison with Diffusion-weighted Imaging	3
Optimal Protocol for Contrast-enhanced Free-running 5D Whole-heart Coronary MR Angiography at 3T	3
Parasagittal Cystic Lesions May Arise from the Pial Sheath around the Cortical Venous Wall	3
Technical Background for 4D Flow MR Imaging	3
Hemosiderin Detection inside the Mammillary Bodies Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping on Patients with Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome	3
Relationship between Pulmonary Gas Exchange Function and Brain Uptake Dynamics Investigated with Hyperpolarized <sup>129</sup>Xe MR Imaging and Spectroscopy in a Murine Model of Chronic Ob	3
Blockage of CSF Outflow in Rats after Deep Cervical Lymph Node Ligation Observed Using Gd-based MR Imaging	2
Comparison of Benign, Borderline, and Malignant Ovarian Seromucinous Neoplasms on MR Imaging	2
Reproducible Spinal Cord Quantitative MRI Analysis with the Spinal Cord Toolbox	2
Review of Quantitative Knee Articular Cartilage MR Imaging	2

Pulmonary Hemodynamic Parameters Derived from 4D Flow MR Imaging Can Provide Sensitive Markers for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients with Right Ventricular Dysfunction	2
Age-related Decline of Intrinsic Cerebrospinal Fluid Outflow in Healthy Humans Detected with Non-contrast Spin-labeling MR Imaging	2
Nonlinear Gradient Field Mapping Using a Spherical Grid Phantom for 3 and 7 Tesla MR Imaging Systems Equipped with High-performance Gradient Coils	2
Numerical and Clinical Evaluation of the Robustness of Open-source Networks for Parallel MR Imaging Reconstruction	2
Interstitial Fluidopathy of the Central Nervous System: An Umbrella Term for Disorders with Impaired Neurofluid Dynamics	2
Diffusion-weighted Echo Planar Imaging with Compressed SENSE (EPICS-DWI) for Pancreas Assessment: A Multicenter Study	2
Utility of Wavelet Denoising with Geometry Factor Weighting for Gadoxetic Acid-enhanced Hepatobiliary-phase MR Imaging	2
Application of Texture and Volume Model Analysis to Dedicated Axillary High-resolution 3D T2-weighted MR Imaging: A Novel Method for Diagnosing Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Clinically Node-n	2
Comparison of Slab and Pencil Beam Labeling in Spin-labeled MR Imaging for Pancreatic Juice Flow Visualization	2
Evaluation of Early Renal Changes in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Using Multiparametric MR Imaging	2
Congratulatory Message on the 20th Anniversary of Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences (MRMS)	2
Tractometry of Human Visual White Matter Pathways in Health and Disease	2
Diffusion-weighted Imaging of the Abdomen during a Single Breath-hold Using Simultaneous-multislice Echo-planar Imaging	2
Safety for Human MR Scanners at 7T	2
Evaluating T1, T2 Relaxation, and Proton Density in Normal Brain Using Synthetic MRI with Fast Imaging Protocol	2
Advances in Myocardial Perfusion MR Imaging: Physiological Implications, the Importance of Quantitative Analysis, and Impact on Patient Care in Coronary Artery Disease	1
Why 4D Flow MRI? Real Advantages	1
Cross-sectional Area of the Superior Petrosal Sinus is Reduced in Patients with Significant Endolymphatic Hydrops	1
Assessing the ADC of Bone-marrow on Whole-body MR Images in Relation to the Fat-suppression Method and Fat Content	1
Rapid MR Angiography Using 3D Gradient-echo Imaging and the Two-point Dixon Method to Evaluate Carotid Plaque	1
Clinical Application of MPRAGE Wave Controlled Aliasing in Parallel Imaging (Wave-CAIPI): A Comparative Study with MPRAGE GRAPPA	1
Comparison of 3D Magnetization-transfer- and Spectral-presaturation-with-inversion-recovery-based Neuromelanin Imaging	1
Microvascular Dysfunction in Patients with Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Quantitative Assessment with Phase Contrast Cine MR Imaging of the Coronary Sinus	1
Diffusion Tensor Imaging Can Discriminate the Primary Cell Type of Intracranial Metastases for Patients with Lung Cancer	1
White and Gray Matter Abnormality in Burning Mouth Syndrome Evaluated with Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging	1
4D Flow MR Imaging of the Left Atrium: What is Non-physiological Blood Flow in the Cardiac System?	1
Thin-slice 2D MR Imaging of the Shoulder Joint Using Denoising Deep Learning Reconstruction Provides Higher Image Quality Than 3D MR Imaging	1
Dual-VENC 4D Flow MRI Can Detect Abnormal Blood Flow in the Left Atrium That Potentially Causes Thrombosis Formation after Left Upper Lobectomy	1
Comparison of Brain Volume Measurements Made with 0.3- and 3-T MR Imaging	1
Combined Use of Texture Features and Morphological Classification Based on Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MR Imaging: Differentiating Benign and Malignant Breast Masses with High Negative Predictive Value	1
Correlation between Phase-difference-enhanced MR Imaging and Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography: A Study on Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Normal Controls	1
Recent Advances in Parameter Inference for Diffusion MRI Signal Models	1
Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Gd-EOB-DTPA MR Imaging	1
Functional Connectivity Pattern Using Resting-state fMRI as an Assessment Tool for Spatial Neglect during the Recovery Stage of Stroke: A Pilot Study	1
Pathological Factors Affecting the R2* Values of the Kidney in Blood Oxygenation Level-dependent MR Imaging: A Retrospective Study	1
Clinical Application of 4D Flow MR Imaging for the Abdominal Aorta	1
Arterial Spin Labeling: Key Concepts and Progress Towards Use as a Clinical Tool	1
Deep Learning Reconstruction to Improve the Quality of MR Imaging: Evaluating the Best Sequence for T-category Assessment in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients	1
Pulse Sequences and Reconstruction in Fast MR Imaging of the Liver	1
Need for Contrast-enhanced MR Imaging Protocols and Quantitative Assessment of Wall Enhancement for Vessel Wall Imaging in Various Intracranial Arterial Diseases	1
Association between the Putative Meningeal Lymphatics at the Posterior Wall of the Sigmoid Sinus and Delayed Contrast-agent Elimination from the Cerebrospinal Fluid	1
<sup>1</sup>H-MR Spectroscopy of the Early Developmental Brain, Neonatal Encephalopathies, and Neurometabolic Disorders	1
High Resolution MR Imaging of the Testis Using a Small Radiofrequency Coil	1
Three-dimensional Multi-parameter Mapping of Relaxation Times and Susceptibility Using Partially RF-spoiled Gradient Echo	1
Implementation of Two-pulse Phase-modulated (TPPM) <sup>1</sup>H Decoupling in a Clinical MR Scanner for the Detection of the C1-glycogen Peak in <sup>13</sup>C MRS	1
Clinical Applications of 4D Flow MR Imaging in Aortic Valvular and Congenital Heart Disease	1
Characteristics of Suspicious Breast Lesions Visible Only on MR Imaging: Is It Possible to Classify into Immediate Biopsy and Careful Observation Groups?	1
Vessel Wall Imaging of Intracranial Arteries: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications	1
Clinical Significance of Liver MR Imaging	1