OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Fast and Precise Method to Search for Desirable Rectangular Tumor Regions in Brain MR Images	256
Fast MR Simulation Using Combined Update of Grouped Isochromats	32
Current State of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Applications for Head and Neck MR Imaging	29
Utility of Locus Coeruleus Signal Intensity on High-resolution T1-weighted MR Imaging with Magnetization Transfer for Differentiating Parkinson’s Disease from Atypical Parkinsonism	23
Prostate Diffusion-weighted Imaging: Selecting the Optimal Repetition Time Using Synthetic Imaging Techniques	23
Association of Airflow Obstruction and Left Atrial Conduit Strain in Patients with Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease	20
Parasagittal Cystic Lesions May Arise from the Pial Sheath around the Cortical Venous Wall	19
Utility of Thin-slice Fat-suppressed Single-shot T2-weighted MR Imaging with Deep Learning Image Reconstruction as a Protocol for Evaluating the Pancreas	18
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	18
Substantially Higher Vestibular Hydrops Agreement in Older Patients Assessed by Non-contrast vs. Contrast-enhanced MRI: A Preliminary Study	17
Optimal Protocol for Contrast-enhanced Free-running 5D Whole-heart Coronary MR Angiography at 3T	17
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	15
Moxibustion Stimulation Induces Changes in Brain Activity: A Functional MR Imaging Study	15
Nonlinear Gradient Field Mapping Using a Spherical Grid Phantom for 3 and 7 Tesla MR Imaging Systems Equipped with High-performance Gradient Coils	14
Optimization of the Data Pattern and Analysis Algorithm for the T2-based Water Suppression Diffusion MRImaging (T2wsup-dMRI) Technique	14
White Matter Microstructural Alterations Mediate the Association between Polygenic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Performance in Clinically Asymptomatic Adults	13
Need for Contrast-enhanced MR Imaging Protocols and Quantitative Assessment of Wall Enhancement for Vessel Wall Imaging in Various Intracranial Arterial Diseases	13
Interstitial Fluidopathy of the Central Nervous System: An Umbrella Term for Disorders with Impaired Neurofluid Dynamics	13
Influence of Gadolinium-based Contrast Media and Inter-reader Variation on the Estimation of Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) Parameters in Breast MR Imaging	12
Microstructural Abnormalities in the Contralateral Normal-appearing White Matter of Glioblastoma Patients Evaluated with Advanced Diffusion Imaging	11
Fast Non-contrast MR Angiography Using a Zigzag Centric <i>k</i><sub>y</sub> – <i>k</i><sub>z</sub> <i>k</i>-space Trajectory and Exponentia	11
Potential to Avoid Invasive Procedures for Atypical Focal Nodular Hyperplasia (FNH) and FNH-like Lesions Based on MR Findings	11
MR Imaging Findings of Uterine Adenomatoid Tumors	11
Arterial Spin Labeling for Pediatric Central Nervous System Diseases: Techniques and Clinical Applications	11
Brain Structures in a Human Embryo Imaged with MR Microscopy	10

Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis ALong the Perivascular Space (DTI-ALPS): Revisiting the Meaning and Significance of the Method	10
Increased Parenchymal Free Water May Be Decreased by Revascularization Surgery in Patients with Moyamoya Disease	10
MRI Findings and Differential Diagnosis of Anterior Mediastinal Solid Tumors	9
Using Deep Learning to Simultaneously Reduce Noise and Motion Artifacts in Brain MR Imaging	9
Current Status and Future Perspective for Bladder Cancer MR Imaging and the Vesical Imaging-Reporting and Data System (VI-RADS) in Japan: Challenges and Solutions	9
Breath-hold High-resolution T1-weighted Gradient Echo Liver MR Imaging with Compressed Sensing Obtained during the Gadoxetic Acid-enhanced Hepatobiliary Phase: Image Quality and Lesion Visibility Comp	9
Practical Brain MRI Guidelines for Anti-Aβ Antibody Treatment in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease	8
So You Want to Image Myelin Using MRI: Magnetic Susceptibility Source Separation for Myelin Imaging	8
Voxel-Based Morphometry of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Using a 3D Fast Low-angle Shot Localizer Image: A Comparison with Magnetization-Prepared Rapid Gradient Echo	8
Comment on “Diagnostic Potential of Macromolecular Proton Fraction Mapping Combined with Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping as a Subcortical Biomarker for Parkinson’s Disease” by Fujiwara et al.	8
The Evolution and Clinical Impact of Deep Learning Technologies in Breast MRI	8
Simple Frame-based Approach for MR Imaging-guided Abdominal Biopsy: Preliminary Evaluation in a Phantom Model	8
Abbreviated and Ultrafast Dynamic Contrast-enhanced (DCE) MR Imaging	8
Assessing the Complicated Venous Hemodynamics and Therapeutic Outcomes of Budd-Chiari Syndrome with Respiratory-gated 4D Flow MR Imaging During the Expiratory and Inspiratory Phases	8
Using Spin-labeled MR Imaging to Depict Slow Pancreatic Juice Flow	7
Deep Learning-based Hierarchical Brain Segmentation with Preliminary Analysis of the Repeatability and Reproducibility	7
Diagnostic Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence for Predicting MGMT Promoter Methylation in Glioblastoma Using MR Imaging: A Systematic Review	7
Multicomponent T<sub>2</sub>* Analysis of Atherosclerotic Plaque with Ultrashort Echo Time Imaging: A Phantom Study	7
Recent Advances in Musculoskeletal Radiology: Bridging Innovation and Clinical Application	7
Peripheral Retinal Leakage after Intravenous Administration of a Gadolinium-based Contrast Agent: Age Dependence, Temporal and Inferior Predominance and Potential Implications for Eye Homeostasis	6
Simultaneous Arterial and Venous Imaging Using 3D Quantitative Parameter Mapping	6
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	6
Motility Mapping Quantification Using the Classical Optical Flow Algorithm for Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease: Comparison with Balloon-assisted Enteroscopy Findings	6
Model-based Deep Learning Reconstruction Using a Folded Image Training Strategy for Abdominal 3D T1-weighted Imaging	6
Hemosiderin Detection inside the Mammillary Bodies Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping on Patients with Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome	6
Artificial Intelligence in Obstetric and Gynecological MR Imaging	6
Comparing Characteristics of Pelvic High-grade Serous Carcinomas with and without Breast Cancer Gene Variants on MR Imaging	5
Numerical and Clinical Evaluation of the Robustness of Open-source Networks for Parallel MR Imaging Reconstruction	5
Effect of Saturation Pulse Duration and Power on pH-weighted Amide Proton Transfer Imaging: A Phantom Study	5
Are Diffusion Models Effective Good Feature Extractors for MRI Discriminative Tasks?	5
Direct Visualization of Tracer Permeation into the Endolymph in Human Patients Using MR Imaging	5
Advances in Risk Management and Screening for Women at Increased Risk of Breast Cancer: The Role of MR Imaging and Personalised Approaches	5
Quality of Head and Neck Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging Using a Combination of the Periodically Rotated Overlapping Parallel Lines with Enhanced Reconstruction (PROPELLER) Sequence and Deep Learning Re	5
Characteristics of Suspicious Breast Lesions Visible Only on MR Imaging: Is It Possible to Classify into Immediate Biopsy and Careful Observation Groups?	4
Three-dimensional Multi-parameter Mapping of Relaxation Times and Susceptibility Using Partially RF-spoiled Gradient Echo	4
Clinical Evaluation of Susceptibility-weighted MR Imaging for the Detection of Intramammary Micro- and Macrocalcifications in 70 Female Patients at 1.5T	4
Evaluation of Approved AI-based Brain Aneurysm Detection Software in Clinical Practice: Comparison with Radiologist Assessment and Image Re-review	4
Comparison of Benign, Borderline, and Malignant Ovarian Seromucinous Neoplasms on MR Imaging	4
Reverse Encoding Distortion Correction of Female Pelvic Diffusion-weighted Imaging on a 1.5-T MR System: Influence on Image Quality and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Measurements for Both <i>In	4
Association between the Presence of the Parasagittal Cyst-like Structures and Cognitive Function	4
Comparison of Slab and Pencil Beam Labeling in Spin-labeled MR Imaging for Pancreatic Juice Flow Visualization	4
Evaluation of Blood Flow Energy Loss before and after Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Using Four-dimensional Flow MR Imaging	4
MR Imaging Features Predictive of Pathologic Complete Response and Survival Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy	4
Evaluation and Prediction of Treatment Response for Hepatocellular Carcinoma	3
Verifying the Accuracy of Hemodynamic Analysis Using High Spatial Resolution 3D Phase-contrast MR Imaging on a 7T MR System: Comparison with a 3T System	3
Region Expansion of Background Field Removal with Local Spherical Harmonics Approximation for Whole-brain Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping	3
Enhanced Visualization of Intracranial Cortical Arteries Using Deep Learning Reconstruction in Vessel Wall MR Imaging	3
Changes to Dorsal Thalamic Metabolites and Thalamocortical Tract Fiber Injury in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy	3
MR Imaging of Umbilical Cord Variations, Abnormalities, and Associated Placental Findings	3
Utility of Thin-slice Single-shot T2-weighted MR Imaging with Deep Learning Reconstruction as a Protocol for Evaluating Pancreatic Cystic Lesions	3

Features of MR Imaging that Differentiate between Immunohistochemically Diagnosed Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma and Myxoid Liposarcoma	3
Deep Learning-based Image Enhancement Techniques for Fast MRI in Neuroimaging	3
Optimal Temporal Resolution to Achieve Good Image Quality and Perform Pharmacokinetic Analysis in Free-breathing Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MR Imaging of the Pancreas	3
Ocular Solute Movement Direction and Intracranial Clearance via Vitreous Gadolinium-based Contrast Agent MR Imaging: Potential as a Novel Biomarker for Glymphatic Dysfunction	3
Survey of Delivery Outcomes for Employees at MR Imaging Facilities in Japan Based on Information Recorded in the Maternal and Child Health Handbook	3
Study of Power Equivalent Continuous Approximation Based on the Recent Consensus Recommendations for Brain Tumor Imaging with Pulsed Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer at 3T	3
Evaluation of Renal Perfusion: A Comparative Study between Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) Imaging and Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) to Assess Renal Blood Flow in Rodents	3
<i>In-vitro</i> Detection of Intramammary-like Macrocalcifications Using Susceptibility-weighted MR Imaging Techniques at 1.5T	3
Histopathological Basis of Peritumoral Enhancement in Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer	3
Imaging of <sup>17</sup>O-labeled Water Using Fast T2 Mapping with T2-preparation: A Phantom Study	3
Lobular Endocervical Glandular Hyperplasia and Related Glandular Disorders: Current Status of Diagnosis with MR Imaging	3
MR Imaging Indices for Brain Interstitial Fluid Dynamics and the Effects of Orexin Antagonists on Sleep	3
Feasibility Study for a Microstrip Transmission Line RF Coil Integrated with a PET Detector Module in a 7T Human MR Imaging System	3
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	3
Application of Machine Learning to Breast MR Imaging	2
Using Phase Difference Information to Detect Errors in the Flip Angle Measured with Actual Flip Angle Imaging at 7T	2
Blockage of CSF Outflow in Rats after Deep Cervical Lymph Node Ligation Observed Using Gd-based MR Imaging	2
Added Value of Sodium MR Imaging and Proton MR Spectroscopy to Conventional MR Imaging for a Better Characterization of the Ischemic Stroke: A Narrative Review	2
Quantitative MR Imaging of the Breast	2
Advanced Techniques for MR Neuroimaging	2
Respiratory-gating Reduces Motion Artifacts Due to Uterine Displacement in T2-weighted MR Imaging of the Female Pelvis	2
What Is the “Glymphatic System”?	2
Biomarkers Predictive of Distant Disease-free Survival Derived from Diffusion-weighted Imaging of Breast Cancer	2
Histological Properties of a Chemically Fixed Human Embryo Visualized with Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping	2
<i>Ex-vivo</i> 1.5T MR Imaging versus CT in Estimating the Size of the Pathologically Invasive Component of Lung Adenocarcinoma Spectrum Lesions	2
Evaluating Hip Periprosthetic Joint Infection with Metal-artifact-reduction MR Imaging	2
Improving Vessel Visibility and Applying Artificial Intelligence to Autodetect Brain Metastasis for a 3D MR Imaging Sequence Capable of Simultaneous Images with and without Blood Vessel Suppression	2
Functional Connectivity Pattern Using Resting-state fMRI as an Assessment Tool for Spatial Neglect during the Recovery Stage of Stroke: A Pilot Study	2
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	2
Preparation and MR Imaging Study of a Recombinant Surface Antibody Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticle–EPC1 Molecular Probe for Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis	2
Radiomic Analysis Applied to Pretreatment Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR Imaging Predicts Response to Selective Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma	2
Voxel-based Morphometry of Alzheimer’s Disease Using a Localizer Image: A Comparative Study with Magnetization Prepared Rapid Acquisition with Gradient Echo	2
Interpretation of Diffusion MR Imaging Data Using Non-negative Least Squares (NNLS)	2
Clinical Application of Quantitative MR Imaging in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease	2
Beyond Macrostructure: Is There a Role for Radiomics Analysis in Neuroimaging ?	2
Rapid MR Angiography Using 3D Gradient-echo Imaging and the Two-point Dixon Method to Evaluate Carotid Plaque	2
Deep Learning-aided <sup>1</sup>H-MR Spectroscopy for Differentiating between Patients with and without Hepatocellular Carcinoma	2
Comparison of 3D Magnetization-transfer- and Spectral-presaturation-with-inversion-recovery-based Neuromelanin Imaging	2
Comparing the Perfusion and Functional Assessment Capabilities of Electrocardiography- and Photoplethysmography-monitored Phase-resolved Functional Lung and Dynamic Contrast-enhanced Perfusion MR Imag	2
Update on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hepatobiliary MR Imaging	2
<i>In Vivo</i> and <i>Post-mortem</i> Comparisons of IVIM/Time-dependent Diffusion MR Imaging Parameters in Melanoma and Breast Cancer Xenograft Models	2
Free-breathing Three-dimensional MR Cholangiopancreatography Using Centric k-space Encoding Improved Gallbladder Visualization: A Prospective Study	2
Endometrial Cancer: A Daily Clinical Practice Guide for Radiologists	2
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	2
Improvement in Image Quality and Efficiency of Non-contrast Thoracic MR Angiography: Comparison of a Highly Accelerated Dixon-based Technique with the Conventional Fat-suppressed Technique	2
Efficacy of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping with Brain Surface Correction and Vein Removal for Detecting Increase Magnetic Susceptibility in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease	2
Association between the Putative Meningeal Lymphatics at the Posterior Wall of the Sigmoid Sinus and Delayed Contrast-agent Elimination from the Cerebrospinal Fluid	2