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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Glymphatic System: A Review of the Challenges in Visualizing its Structure and Function with MR Imaging	38
Advantages of Using Both Voxel- and Surface-based Morphometry in Cortical Morphology Analysis: A Review of Various Applications	31
Perfusion-driven Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) MRI in Oncology: Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends	28
Accelerated Acquisition of High-resolution Diffusion-weighted Imaging of the Brain with a Multi-shot Echo-planar Sequence: Deep-learning-based Denoising	24
Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Gd-EOB-DTPA MR Imaging	20
Review of Quantitative Knee Articular Cartilage MR Imaging	20
T<sub>2</sub>-FLAIR Mismatch Sign Is Caused by Long T<sub>1</sub> and T<sub>2</sub> of <i>IDH</i>-mutant, 1p19q Non-codeleted Astrocytoma	18
Radiomics Analysis of Susceptibility Weighted Imaging for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Exploring the Correlation between Histopathology and Radiomics Features	18
Dual-VENC 4D Flow MRI Can Detect Abnormal Blood Flow in the Left Atrium That Potentially Causes Thrombosis Formation after Left Upper Lobectomy	18
MR Imaging of Endolymphatic Hydrops: Utility of iHYDROPS-Mi2 Combined with Deep Learning Reconstruction Denoising	17
Utility of 4D Flow MRI in Thoracic Aortic Diseases: A Literature Review of Clinical Applications and Current Evidence	15
Hemodynamic Forces, Endothelial Mechanotransduction, and Vascular Diseases	14
The Spatial Distribution of Water Components with Similar T<sub>2</sub> May Provide Insight into Pathways for Large Molecule Transportation in the Brain	14
Evaluation of Malignant Breast Lesions Using High-resolution Readout-segmented Diffusion-weighted Echo-planar Imaging: Comparison with Pathology	14
Turbo Spin-echo Diffusion-weighted Imaging Compared with Single-shot Echo-planar Diffusion-weighted Imaging: Image Quality and Diagnostic Performance When Differentiating between Ductal Carcinoma <	12
Intraoperative MR Imaging during Glioma Resection	12
Relationship between Parasagittal Perivenous Cysts and Leakage of Gadolinium-based Contrast Agents into the Subarachnoid Space around the Cortical Veins after Intravenous Administration	11
Deep Learning-based Noise Reduction for Fast Volume Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Assessing the Noise Reduction Effect and Reliability of Diffusion Metrics	11
Intracranial Distribution of Intravenously Administered Gadolinium-based Contrast Agent over a Period of 24 Hours: Evaluation with 3D-real IR Imaging and MR Fingerprinting	11
Potential of Liver T<sub>1</sub> Mapping for the Detection of Fontan-associated Liver Disease in Adults	10
Clinical Applications of 4D Flow MR Imaging in Aortic Valvular and Congenital Heart Disease	10
MR Imaging in the 21st Century: Technical Innovation over the First Two Decades	10
Clinical Applications of 4D Flow MRI in the Portal Venous System	10
Transient Respiratory-motion Artifact and Scan Timing during the Arterial Phase of Gadoxetate Disodium-enhanced MR Imaging: The Benefit of Shortened Acquisition and Multiple Arterial Phase Acquisition	9
<sup>1</sup>H-MR Spectroscopy of the Early Developmental Brain, Neonatal Encephalopathies, and Neurometabolic Disorders	9

Ultrafast Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MRI of the Breast: How Is It Used?	9
Relationship between Time-dependent Signal Changes in Parasagittal Perivenous Cysts and Leakage of Gadolinium-based Contrast Agents into the Subarachnoid Space	8
Reconstruction of Compressed-sensing MR Imaging Using Deep Residual Learning in the Image Domain	8
Biomedical Applications of the Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and Parahydrogen Induced Polarization Techniques for Hyperpolarized <sup>13</sup>C MR Imaging	8
Microcystic, Elongated and Fragmented Pattern Invasion Can Adversely Influence Preoperative Staging for Low-grade Endometrial Carcinoma	8
Clinical Application of 4D Flow MR Imaging to Pulmonary Hypertension	7
Clinical Application of 4D Flow MR Imaging for the Abdominal Aorta	7
Advanced Diffusion MR Imaging for Multiple Sclerosis in the Brain and Spinal Cord	7
Comparison of the Diagnostic Value of Mono-exponential, Bi-exponential, and Stretched Exponential Signal Models in Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging for Differentiating Benign and Malignant Hepatic Lesion	7
Optimal Combination of Features on Gadoxetate Disodium-enhanced MR Imaging for Non-invasive Differential Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The JAMP-HCC Study	7
Investigating the Image Quality and Utility of Synthetic MRI in the Breast	7
<i>In vivo</i> Human MR Spectroscopy Using a Clinical Scanner: Development, Applications, and Future Prospects	7
Texture Analysis in Brain Tumor MR Imaging	7
MR Imaging of Endolymphatic Hydrops in Five Minutes	7
Technical Background for 4D Flow MR Imaging	7
Hemodynamic Parameters for Cardiovascular System in 4D Flow MRI: Mathematical Definition and Clinical Applications	7
Visualization of Cerebrospinal Fluid Motion in the Whole Brain Using Three-dimensional Dynamic Improved Motion-sensitized Driven-equilibrium Steady-state Free Precession	6
Quality Control for 4D Flow MR Imaging	6
Characteristics of MR Imaging for Staging and Survival Analysis of Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Endometrium: A Multicenter Study in Japan	6
Hemangioblastoma of the Cerebellopontine Angle Evaluated with Pseudocontinuous Arterial Spin Labeling	5
Time-dependent Diffusion in Transient Splenial Lesion: Comparison between Oscillating-gradient Spin-echo Measurements and Monte-Carlo Simulation	5
Advances in Myocardial Perfusion MR Imaging: Physiological Implications, the Importance of Quantitative Analysis, and Impact on Patient Care in Coronary Artery Disease	5
Clinical Importance of Myocardial T<sub>2</sub> Mapping and Texture Analysis	5
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	5
State-of-the-art MR Imaging for Thoracic Diseases	5
Non-physiological Aortic Flow and Aortopathy in Adult Patients with Transposition of the Great Arteries after the Jatene Procedure: A Pilot Study Using Echo Planar 4D Flow MRI	5
Automation of a Rule-based Workflow to Estimate Age from Brain MR Imaging of Infants and Children Up to 2 Years Old Using Stacked Deep Learning	5
Investigation of Acupuncture-specific BOLD Signal Changes Using Multiband Acquisition and Deconvolution Analysis	5
Added Value of Contrast-enhanced 3D-FLAIR MR Imaging for Differentiating Cystic Pituitary Adenoma from Rathke’s Cleft Cyst	5
Portal Vein Stenosis Following Liver Transplantation Hemodynamically Assessed with 4D-flow MRI before and after Portal Vein Stenting	5
Arterial Spin Labeling for Pediatric Central Nervous System Diseases: Techniques and Clinical Applications	5
Interstitial Fluidopathy of the Central Nervous System: An Umbrella Term for Disorders with Impaired Neurofluid Dynamics	5
Peripheral Retinal Leakage after Intravenous Administration of a Gadolinium-based Contrast Agent: Age Dependence, Temporal and Inferior Predominance and Potential Implications for Eye Homeostasis	5
Evaluation of Cardiac- and Respiratory-driven Cerebrospinal Fluid Motions by Applying the S-transform to Steady-state Free Precession Phase Contrast Imaging	4
Comparison of Brain Volume Measurements Made with 0.3- and 3-T MR Imaging	4
Quantitative T2 Mapping to Discriminate Mucinous from Nonmucinous Adenocarcinoma in Rectal Cancer: Comparison with Diffusion-weighted Imaging	4
Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping versus R2*-based Histogram Analysis for Evaluating Liver Fibrosis: Preliminary Results	4
Diagnostic Value of DCE-MRI for Differentiating Malignant Adnexal Masses Compared with Contrast-enhanced-T1WI	4
Clinical Significance of Liver MR Imaging	4
Distribution of Gadolinium-based Contrast Agent after Leaking into the Cerebrospinal Fluid: Comparison between the Cerebral Cisterns and the Lateral Ventricles	4
Peritumoral Fat Content Correlates with Histological Prognostic Factors in Breast Carcinoma: A Study Using Iterative Decomposition of Water and Fat with Echo Asymmetry and Least-Squares Estimation (ID	4
Recent Advances and Future Directions in Brain MR Imaging Studies in Schizophrenia: Toward Elucidating Brain Pathology and Developing Clinical Tools	4
Differentiating Liver Hemangioma from Metastatic Tumor Using T2-enhanced Spin-echo Imaging with a Time-reversed Gradient-echo Sequence in the Hepatobiliary Phase of Gadoxetic Acid-enhanced MR Imaging	4
Evaluating the Effect of Arterial Pulsation on Cerebrospinal Fluid Motion in the Sylvian Fissure of Patients with Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Using Low b-value Diffusion-weighted Imaging	4
Diffusion-weighted Imaging of the Abdomen during a Single Breath-hold Using Simultaneous-multislice Echo-planar Imaging	4
Effects of Head Motion on the Evaluation of Age-related Brain Network Changes Using Resting State Functional MRI	4
Quick MR Neuromelanin Imaging Using a Chemical Shift Selective Pulse	3
Influence of Mild White Matter Lesions on Voxel-based Morphometry	3
Commercially Available Deep-learning-reconstruction of MR Imaging of the Knee at 1.5T Has Higher Image Quality Than Conventionally-reconstructed Imaging at 3T: A Normal Volunteer Study	3
A Robust and Accurate Deep-learning-based Method for the Segmentation of Subcortical Brain: Cross-dataset Evaluation of Generalization Performance	3

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	3
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	3
Pulse Sequences and Reconstruction in Fast MR Imaging of the Liver	3
Ultra-short Echo-time MR Angiography Combined with a Subtraction Method to Assess Intracranial Aneurysms Treated with a Flow-diverter Device	3
What Is the “Glymphatic System”?	3
Three-dimensional Gradient-echo is Effective in Suppressing Radiofrequency Shielding by a Titanium Mesh	3
Acute Physiological Response of Lumbar Intervertebral Discs to High-load Deadlift Exercise	3
Three-dimensional Multi-parameter Mapping of Relaxation Times and Susceptibility Using Partially RF-spoiled Gradient Echo	3
Why 4D Flow MRI? Real Advantages	3
4D Flow MR Imaging of the Left Atrium: What is Non-physiological Blood Flow in the Cardiac System?	3
Update on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hepatobiliary MR Imaging	3
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	3
Pitfalls of Using T2-contrast Enhancement Techniques in 3D-FLAIR to Detect Endolymphatic Hydrops	3
Monte Carlo Simulator for Diffusion-weighted Imaging Sequences	3
Prediction of Sufficient Liver Enhancement on the Gadoxetate Disodium-enhanced Hepatobiliary Phase Imaging Using Transitional Phase Images and Albumin–bilirubin Grade	3
Investigating Signal Loss due to a Carotid Artery Stent in 3D-TOF-MRA	3
Characterization of Cardiac- and Respiratory-driven Cerebrospinal Fluid Motions Using a Correlation Mapping Technique Based on Asynchronous Two-dimensional Phase Contrast MR Imaging	3
Age-related Decline of Intrinsic Cerebrospinal Fluid Outflow in Healthy Humans Detected with Non-contrast Spin-labeling MR Imaging	3
Safety for Human MR Scanners at 7T	2
Introducing Swish and Parallelized Blind Removal Improves the Performance of a Convolutional Neural Network in Denoising MR Images	2
Detecting Mild Lower-limb Skeletal Muscle Fatigue with Stimulated-echo q-space Imaging	2
Current State of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Applications for Head and Neck MR Imaging	2
Deep Learning and Its Application to Function Approximation for MR in Medicine: An Overview	2
Thin-slice Two-dimensional T2-weighted Imaging with Deep Learning-based Reconstruction: Improved Lesion Detection in the Brain of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis	2
Progress in Understanding Radiofrequency Heating and Burn Injuries for Safer MR Imaging	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
Vessel Wall Imaging of Intracranial Arteries: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications	2
Optimal Protocol for Contrast-enhanced Free-running 5D Whole-heart Coronary MR Angiography at 3T	2
Creatine Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (Cr-CEST) Imaging Can Evaluate Cisplatin-induced Testicular Damage	2
Evaluation and Prediction of Treatment Response for Hepatocellular Carcinoma	2
Does the Pulsatile Non-uniform Flow Matter in MR Flowmetry?	2
Evaluating the Elasticity of Metastatic Cervical Lymph Nodes in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients Using DWI-based Virtual MR Elastography	2
Region Expansion of Background Field Removal with Local Spherical Harmonics Approximation for Whole-brain Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping	2
A National Survey on Safety Management at MR Imaging Facilities in Japan	2
Assessing the ADC of Bone-marrow on Whole-body MR Images in Relation to the Fat-suppression Method and Fat Content	2
Triexponential Diffusion Analysis of Diffusion-weighted Imaging for Breast Ductal Carcinoma <i>in Situ</i> and Invasive Ductal Carcinoma	2
MR Imaging of Hair and Scalp for the Evaluation of Androgenetic Alopecia	2
Morphological Observation of the Pupal Body of <i>Trypoxylus dichotomus</i> Using 9.4T MR Imaging	2
Clinical Application of Quantitative MR Imaging in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease	2
Biomarkers Predictive of Distant Disease-free Survival Derived from Diffusion-weighted Imaging of Breast Cancer	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
The Accuracy and Clinical Relevance of the Multi-echo Dixon Technique for Evaluating Changes to Hepatic Steatosis in Patients with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Treated with Formulated Food	2