OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and Medicine is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
23Na chemical shift imaging in the living rat brain using a chemical shift agent, Tm[DOTP]5–	54
A short-TR single-echo spin-echo breath-hold method for assessing liver T2	47
Phantoms for Quantitative Body MRI: a review and discussion of the phantom value	39
Advancing sustainable magnetic resonance imaging access in Africa: review of clinical performance of MRI scanners using ACR MagPhan in Ghana	38
Segmentation of the aorta in systolic phase from 4D flow MRI: multi-atlas vs. deep learning	34
The role of MRI in prostate cancer: current and future directions	28
An evolution of low-field strength MRI	25
ESMRMB 2025 focus topic: cycle of translation	23
New physiological insights using multi-TE ASL MRI measuring blood–brain barrier water exchange after caffeine intake	23
Reliability of velocity pulsatility in small vessels on 3Tesla MRI in the basal ganglia: a test–retest study	16
Evaluation of tractography parameters for dentato-rubro-thalamic tract reconstruction during pediatric posterior fossa tumor surgery	16
Reproducibility of MRI-based white matter tract estimation using multi-fiber probabilistic tractography: effect of user-defined parameters and regions	15
Results of the 2023 ISBI challenge to reduce GABA-edited MRS acquisition time	15
$$B_1$$ Field inhomogeneity correction for qDESS $$T_2$$ mapping: application to rapid bilateral knee imaging	14
Scaling the mountains: what lies above 7 Tesla magnetic resonance?	14
Advancing MRI, together: open science in MR research	14
RF-induced heating of interventional devices at 23.66 MHz	14
Histopathological graded liver lesions: what role does the IVIM analysis method have?	14
Can detonation nanodiamonds serve as MRI phantoms?	13
Specific absorption rate (SAR) simulations for low-field (< 0.1 T) MRI systems	13
Addressing fatty tissue in quantitative susceptibility mapping of human knee cartilage	12
Multi-feed, loop-dipole combined dielectric resonator antenna arrays for human brain MRI at 7 T	12
Spatial profiling of in vivo diffusion-weighted MRI parameters in the healthy human kidney	11
Ramping down a clinical 3 T scanner: a journey into MRI and MRS at 0.75 T	11
Open-source, MRI-compatible grip force sensor for dynamic muscle imaging	11

Metabolic fingerprint of patients showing responsiveness to treatment of septic shock in intensive care unit	11
Exploring the potential performance of 0.2 T low-field unshielded MRI scanner using deep learning techniques	11
Comparing repeatability metrics for quantitative susceptibility mapping in the head and neck	10
Characterizing geometric distortions of 3D sequences in clinical head MRI	10
Free-running time-resolved first-pass myocardial perfusion using a multi-scale dynamics decomposition: CMR-MOTUS	10
High resolution magic angle spinning MRS in prostate cancer	9
Deep learning initialized compressed sensing (Deli-CS) in volumetric spatio-temporal subspace reconstruction	9
Non-contrast myocardial perfusion in rest and exercise stress using systolic flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery	9
Metabolite interactions in prostatic fluid mimics assessed by 1H NMR	9
Learning to deep learning: statistics and a paradigm test in selecting a UNet architecture to enhance MRI	9
Micro- to macroscale magnetic resonance imaging of glioma	9
Pseudo-T2 mapping for normalization of T2-weighted prostate MRI	9
High-resolution imaging of the excised porcine heart at a whole-body 7 T MRI system using an 8Tx/16Rx pTx coil	9
Native T1 mapping of the breast in MRI to differentiate fibroadenomas from benign phyllodes tumors: a preliminary study	9
Free-breathing MRI techniques for fat and R2* quantification in the liver	8
Report on the hot topic debate at ESMRMB 2021	8
Exploring the foothills: benefits below 1 Tesla?	8
Concomitant field compensation of spiral turbo spin-echo at 0.55 T	8
Feasibility of glioblastoma tissue response mapping with physiologic BOLD imaging using precise oxygen and carbon dioxide challenge	8
Correction to: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2023 Online 39th Annual Scientific Meeting 4–7 October 2023	8
Towards assessing and improving the reliability of ultrashort echo time quantitative magnetization transfer (UTE-qMT) MRI of cortical bone: In silico and ex vivo study	8
Development and evaluation of a numerical simulation approach to predict metal artifacts from passive implants in MRI	7
Improved reconstruction for highly accelerated propeller diffusion 1.5 T clinical MRI	7
PyFaceWipe: a new defacing tool for almost any MRI contrast	7
Upright 0.5 T open MR defaecating proctography proof of concept study: the inter- and intra-rater variability of pelvic floor measures using seated proctography	7
Subject-specific timing adaption in time-encoded arterial spin labeling imaging	7
MR beyond diagnostics at the ESMRMB annual meeting: MR theranostics and intervention	7
Comparison of convolutional-neural-networks-based method and LCModel on the quantification of in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy	7
Numerical approach to investigate MR imaging artifacts from orthopedic implants at different field strengths according to ASTM F2119	7
Whole pancreas water T1 mapping at 3 Tesla	6
Open-source quality assurance for multi-parametric MRI: a diffusion analysis update for the magnetic resonance biomarker assessment software (MR-BIAS)	6
Large-scale 3D non-Cartesian coronary MRI reconstruction using distributed memory-efficient physics-guided deep learning with limited training data	6
A systematic review on the use of quantitative imaging to detect cancer therapy adverse effects in normal-appearing brain tissue	6
Partial Fourier in the presence of respiratory motion in prostate diffusion-weighted echo planar imaging	6
Free-breathing qRF-MRF with pilot tone respiratory motion navigator for T1, T2, T2*, and off-resonance mapping of the human body at 3 T	6
Influence of orientation, size and shape of the region of interest in diffusion MRI along perivascular spaces index	6
Deep learning for accelerated and robust MRI reconstruction	6
Nonuniform sliding-window reconstruction for accelerated dual contrast agent quantification with MR fingerprinting	6
Fast bias-corrected conductivity mapping using stimulated echoes	6
A dedicated phantom for exploring the interplay of fat and paramagnetic substances in quantitative susceptibility mapping	6
Dynamic cardiac MRI with high spatiotemporal resolution using accelerated spiral-out and spiral-in/out bSSFP pulse sequences at 1.5 T	6
Myelin water imaging from accelerated 3D-GRASE acquisitions using subspace constrained reconstruction	5
Simulation-based evaluation of SAR and flip angle homogeneity for five transmit head arrays at 14 T	5
Comparing magnetic resonance liver fat fraction measurements with histology in fibrosis: the difference between proton density fat fraction and tissue mass fat fraction	5
Diagnostic performance of edited 2HG MR spectroscopy of central glioma in the clinical environment	5
SAD: semi-supervised automatic detection of BOLD activations in high temporal resolution fMRI data	5
Quantitative assessment of normal hip cartilage in children under 9 years old by T2 mapping	5
Chitosan-modified manganese oxide-conjugated methotrexate nanoparticles delivering 5-aminolevulinic acid as a dual-modal T1–T2* MRI contrast agent in U87MG cell detection	5
Polar Fourier transform in practice: its efficiency and characteristics in reconstructing radially acquired MRI images	5
Will standardization kill innovation?	5

Linearity and bias of proton density fat fraction across the full dynamic range of 0–100%: a multiplatform, multivendor phantom study using 1.5T and 3T MRI at two sites	5
3D APT and NOE CEST-MRI of healthy volunteers and patients with non-enhancing glioma at 3 T	5
Is the optimal Tmax threshold identifying perfusion deficit volumes variable across MR perfusion software packages? A pilot study	5
Automated adaptive detection and reconstruction of quiescent cardiac phases in free-running whole-heart acquisitions using Synchronicity Maps from PHysiological mOtioN In Cine (SYMPHONIC) MRI	5
Concept for gradient-free MRI on twin natural slices	4
Design of multi-row parallel-transmit coil arrays for enhanced SAR efficiency with deep brain electrodes at 3T: an electromagnetic simulation study	4
Signal drift in diffusion MRI of the brain: effects on intravoxel incoherent motion parameter estimates	4
Gpu-accelerated JEMRIS for extensive MRI simulations	4
Automated abdominal adipose tissue segmentation and volume quantification on longitudinal MRI using 3D convolutional neural networks with multi-contrast inputs	4
Accuracies of four simulation approaches in reproducing motion artifacts and morphometric parameter biases	4
Quantitative 23Na magnetic resonance imaging in the abdomen at 3 T	4
Impact of the inversion time on regional brain perfusion estimation with clinical arterial spin labeling protocols	4
Comparison of observed image quality and technical image quality parameters in 3D-FLAIR images	4
Quantitative non-contrast perfusion MRI in the body using arterial spin labeling	4
Metabolic changes assessed by 1H MR spectroscopy in the corpus callosum of post-COVID patients	4
Information theoretic evaluation of Lorentzian, Gaussian, Voigt, and symmetric alpha-stable models of reversible transverse relaxation in cervical cancer in vivo at 3 T	4
Correction to: MR beyond diagnostics at the ESMRMB annual meeting: MR theranostics and intervention	4
Dictionary learning compressed sensing reconstruction: pilot validation of accelerated echo planar J-resolved spectroscopic imaging in prostate cancer	4
Easy scalable, low-cost open-source magnetic field detection system for evaluating low-field MRI magnets using a motion-tracked robot	4
Comparison of $${B}_{1}$$+ and SAR efficiency for a high-impedance metamaterial shield with different remote RF arrays at 7 T MRI: A simulation study	4
Comparison of conventional and higher-resolution reduced-FOV diffusion-weighted imaging of breast tissue	4
MRI safety considerations associated with low-field MRI: mostly good news	4
A straightforward procedure to build a non-toxic relaxometry phantom with desired T1 and T2 times at 3T	4
Metrology for MRI: the field you’ve never heard of	4
Deep learning-based super-resolution of structural brain MRI at 1.5 T: application to quantitative volume measurement	4
Combined acquisition of diffusion and T2*-weighted measurements using simultaneous multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging	4
Late/delayed gadolinium enhancement in MRI after intravenous administration of extracellular gadolinium-based contrast agents: is it worth waiting?	4
Automated inversion time selection for black-blood late gadolinium enhancement cardiac imaging in clinical practice	4