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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Diffusion MR Imaging with T2-based Water Suppression (T2wsup-dMRI)	79
Current State of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Applications for Head and Neck MR Imaging	72
Parasagittal Cystic Lesions May Arise from the Pial Sheath around the Cortical Venous Wall	71
Optimal Protocol for Contrast-enhanced Free-running 5D Whole-heart Coronary MR Angiography at 3T	41
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	32
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	30
Utility of Thin-slice Fat-suppressed Single-shot T2-weighted MR Imaging with Deep Learning Image Reconstruction as a Protocol for Evaluating the Pancreas	28
Nonlinear Gradient Field Mapping Using a Spherical Grid Phantom for 3 and 7 Tesla MR Imaging Systems Equipped with High-performance Gradient Coils	27
Interstitial Fluidopathy of the Central Nervous System: An Umbrella Term for Disorders with Impaired Neurofluid Dynamics	26
Influence of Gadolinium-based Contrast Media and Inter-reader Variation on the Estimation of Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) Parameters in Breast MR Imaging	22
Optimization of the Data Pattern and Analysis Algorithm for the T2-based Water Suppression Diffusion MRImaging (T2wsup-dMRI) Technique	22
Microstructural Abnormalities in the Contralateral Normal-appearing White Matter of Glioblastoma Patients Evaluated with Advanced Diffusion Imaging	20
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	19
Increased Parenchymal Free Water May Be Decreased by Revascularization Surgery in Patients with Moyamoya Disease	19
Brain Structures in a Human Embryo Imaged with MR Microscopy	18
Why 4D Flow MRI? Real Advantages	18
MR Imaging Findings of Uterine Adenomatoid Tumors	17
Need for Contrast-enhanced MR Imaging Protocols and Quantitative Assessment of Wall Enhancement for Vessel Wall Imaging in Various Intracranial Arterial Diseases	16
Arterial Spin Labeling for Pediatric Central Nervous System Diseases: Techniques and Clinical Applications	16
The Glymphatic System: A Review of the Challenges in Visualizing its Structure and Function with MR Imaging	15
Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis ALong the Perivascular Space (DTI-ALPS): Revisiting the Meaning and Significance of the Method	14
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	13
Using Deep Learning to Simultaneously Reduce Noise and Motion Artifacts in Brain MR Imaging	13
MR Imaging of Endolymphatic Hydrops in Five Minutes	13
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	13

Voxel-Based Morphometry of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Using a 3D Fast Low-angle Shot Localizer Image: A Comparison with Magnetization-Prepared Rapid Gradient Echo	13
Hemodynamic Forces, Endothelial Mechanotransduction, and Vascular Diseases	12
MRI Findings and Differential Diagnosis of Anterior Mediastinal Solid Tumors	12
Texture Analysis in Brain Tumor MR Imaging	12
Ultrafast Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MRI of the Breast: How Is It Used?	11
Diagnostic Value of DCE-MRI for Differentiating Malignant Adnexal Masses Compared with Contrast-enhanced-T1WI	10
Abbreviated and Ultrafast Dynamic Contrast-enhanced (DCE) MR Imaging	10
Motility Mapping Quantification Using the Classical Optical Flow Algorithm for Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease: Comparison with Balloon-assisted Enteroscopy Findings	9
Practical Brain MRI Guidelines for Anti-Aβ Antibody Treatment in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease	9
Using Spin-labeled MR Imaging to Depict Slow Pancreatic Juice Flow	9
So You Want to Image Myelin Using MRI: Magnetic Susceptibility Source Separation for Myelin Imaging	9
Artificial Intelligence in Obstetric and Gynecological MR Imaging	9
The Evolution and Clinical Impact of Deep Learning Technologies in Breast MRI	9
Quality Control for 4D Flow MR Imaging	8
Deep Learning-based Hierarchical Brain Segmentation with Preliminary Analysis of the Repeatability and Reproducibility	8
Contrast Enhancement of the Normal Infundibular Recess Using Heavily T2-weighted 3D FLAIR	8
Simultaneous Arterial and Venous Imaging Using 3D Quantitative Parameter Mapping	7
Hemosiderin Detection inside the Mammillary Bodies Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping on Patients with Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome	7
Deep Learning and Its Application to Function Approximation for MR in Medicine: An Overview	7
Comparing Characteristics of Pelvic High-grade Serous Carcinomas with and without Breast Cancer Gene Variants on MR Imaging	7
Model-based Deep Learning Reconstruction Using a Folded Image Training Strategy for Abdominal 3D T1-weighted Imaging	7
Effect of Saturation Pulse Duration and Power on pH-weighted Amide Proton Transfer Imaging: A Phantom Study	7
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	7
Technical Background for 4D Flow MR Imaging	7
Comparison of Slab and Pencil Beam Labeling in Spin-labeled MR Imaging for Pancreatic Juice Flow Visualization	6
Direct Visualization of Tracer Permeation into the Endolymph in Human Patients Using MR Imaging	6
Diffusion Tensor Imaging Can Discriminate the Primary Cell Type of Intracranial Metastases for Patients with Lung Cancer	6
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
Clinical Applications of 4D Flow MRI in the Portal Venous System	6
Are Diffusion Models Effective Good Feature Extractors for MRI Discriminative Tasks?	6
Safety for Human MR Scanners at 7T	5
Assessing the ADC of Bone-marrow on Whole-body MR Images in Relation to the Fat-suppression Method and Fat Content	5
MR Imaging Features Predictive of Pathologic Complete Response and Survival Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy	5
Association between the Presence of the Parasagittal Cyst-like Structures and Cognitive Function	5
Numerical and Clinical Evaluation of the Robustness of Open-source Networks for Parallel MR Imaging Reconstruction	5
Three-dimensional Multi-parameter Mapping of Relaxation Times and Susceptibility Using Partially RF-spoiled Gradient Echo	5
Evaluation of Cardiac- and Respiratory-driven Cerebrospinal Fluid Motions by Applying the S-transform to Steady-state Free Precession Phase Contrast Imaging	5
Characteristics of Suspicious Breast Lesions Visible Only on MR Imaging: Is It Possible to Classify into Immediate Biopsy and Careful Observation Groups?	5
Comparison of Benign, Borderline, and Malignant Ovarian Seromucinous Neoplasms on MR Imaging	5
<sup>1</sup>H-MR Spectroscopy of the Early Developmental Brain, Neonatal Encephalopathies, and Neurometabolic Disorders	5
Clinical Application of MPRAGE Wave Controlled Aliasing in Parallel Imaging (Wave-CAIPI): A Comparative Study with MPRAGE GRAPPA	5
Special Issue on 4D Flow MRI in Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences	4
MR Imaging Indices for Brain Interstitial Fluid Dynamics and the Effects of Orexin Antagonists on Sleep	4
Deep Learning-based Image Enhancement Techniques for Fast MRI in Neuroimaging	4
Region Expansion of Background Field Removal with Local Spherical Harmonics Approximation for Whole-brain Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping	4
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	4
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	4
<i>In-vitro</i> Detection of Intramammary-like Macrocalcifications Using Susceptibility-weighted MR Imaging Techniques at 1.5T	4
Changes to Dorsal Thalamic Metabolites and Thalamocortical Tract Fiber Injury in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy	4
Optimal Temporal Resolution to Achieve Good Image Quality and Perform Pharmacokinetic Analysis in Free-breathing Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MR Imaging of the Pancreas	4

Imaging of <sup>17</sup>O-labeled Water Using Fast T2 Mapping with T2-preparation: A Phantom Study	4
Feasibility Study for a Microstrip Transmission Line RF Coil Integrated with a PET Detector Module in a 7T Human MR Imaging System	4
Association between the Putative Meningeal Lymphatics at the Posterior Wall of the Sigmoid Sinus and Delayed Contrast-agent Elimination from the Cerebrospinal Fluid	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
Update on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hepatobiliary MR Imaging	3
Blockage of CSF Outflow in Rats after Deep Cervical Lymph Node Ligation Observed Using Gd-based MR Imaging	3
Rapid MR Angiography Using 3D Gradient-echo Imaging and the Two-point Dixon Method to Evaluate Carotid Plaque	3
Congratulatory Message on the 20th Anniversary of Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences (MRMS)	3
Does the Pulsatile Non-uniform Flow Matter in MR Flowmetry?	3
Evaluation and Prediction of Treatment Response for Hepatocellular Carcinoma	3
Evaluating Hip Periprosthetic Joint Infection with Metal-artifact-reduction MR Imaging	3
4D Flow MR Imaging of the Left Atrium: What is Non-physiological Blood Flow in the Cardiac System?	3
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	3
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	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
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
Bloch Simulation of a Three-point Dixon Experiment Using a Four-dimensional Numerical Phantom	3
Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Gd-EOB-DTPA MR Imaging	3
Functional Connectivity Pattern Using Resting-state fMRI as an Assessment Tool for Spatial Neglect during the Recovery Stage of Stroke: A Pilot Study	3
Recent Advances in Parameter Inference for Diffusion MRI Signal Models	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
Clinical Application of 4D Flow MR Imaging to Pulmonary Hypertension	2
MR Imaging in the 21st Century: Technical Innovation over the First Two Decades	2
EIC Remarks for a Special 20th Anniversary Issue of MRMS	2
Comparison of 3D Magnetization-transfer- and Spectral-presaturation-with-inversion-recovery-based Neuromelanin Imaging	2
Time-dependent Diffusion in Brain Abscesses Investigated with Oscillating-gradient Spin-echo	2
Beyond Macrostructure: Is There a Role for Radiomics Analysis in Neuroimaging ?	2
Recent Advances and Future Directions in Brain MR Imaging Studies in Schizophrenia: Toward Elucidating Brain Pathology and Developing Clinical Tools	2
Biomarkers Predictive of Distant Disease-free Survival Derived from Diffusion-weighted Imaging of Breast Cancer	2
Using Phase Difference Information to Detect Errors in the Flip Angle Measured with Actual Flip Angle Imaging at 7T	2
Histological Properties of a Chemically Fixed Human Embryo Visualized with Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping	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
Combining the Tumor Contact Length and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Better Predicts Extraprostatic Extension of Prostate Cancer with Capsular Abutment: A 3 Tesla MR Imaging Study	2
Clinical Application of Quantitative MR Imaging in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease	2
Diffusion-weighted Echo Planar Imaging with Compressed SENSE (EPICS-DWI) for Pancreas Assessment: A Multicenter Study	1
<i>Ex-vivo</i> 1.5T MR Imaging versus CT in Estimating the Size of the Pathologically Invasive Component of Lung Adenocarcinoma Spectrum Lesions	1
<i>In vivo</i> Human MR Spectroscopy Using a Clinical Scanner: Development, Applications, and Future Prospects	1
Quiet Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging of the Brain for Pediatric Patients with Moyamoya Disease	1
Institutional Variability in Ultrafast Breast MR Imaging: Comparing Compressed Sensing and View Sharing Techniques with Different Patient Populations and Contrast Injection Protocols	1
Using Dictionary Matching to Improve the Accuracy of MOLLI Myocardial T1 Analysis and Measurements of Heart Rate Variability	1
Progress in Understanding Radiofrequency Heating and Burn Injuries for Safer MR Imaging	1
Clinical Application of 4D Flow MR Imaging for the Abdominal Aorta	1
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	1
Tractometry of Human Visual White Matter Pathways in Health and Disease	1
Susceptibility-weighted Imaging for Renal Iron Overload Assessment: A Pilot Study	1
Cortical Brush Sign: A Novel Finding on Thin-slice 3T Susceptibility-weighted Imaging in Acute Cerebral Infarct and Cerebral Venous Thrombosis	1
Pulmonary Hemodynamic Parameters Derived from 4D Flow MR Imaging Can Provide Sensitive Markers for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients with Right Ventricular Dysfunction	1
Evaluating T1, T2 Relaxation, and Proton Density in Normal Brain Using Synthetic MRI with Fast Imaging Protocol	1
Development of a Car-mounted Mobile MR Imaging System for Diagnosis of Sports-related Wrist Injury	1
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	1
Vessel Wall Imaging of Intracranial Arteries: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications	1
Advanced Techniques for MR Neuroimaging	1
Image-based Re-evaluation of the JCOG0911 Study Focusing on Tumor Volume and Survival, Disease Progression Diagnosis, and Radiomic Prognostication for Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma	1
Comparison of Echo-Planar Imaging and Compressed Sensing in the Estimation of Flow Metrics from Aortic 4D Flow MR Imaging: A Healthy Volunteer Study	1
Surface-based Analyses of Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Relationship with Onset Subtypes	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
“Speckled Enhancement” on Gd-EOB-DTPA Enhanced MR Imaging of Primary Hepatic Mucosa-associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma	1
Diagnostic Efficacy of Diffusion-weighted Imaging in Distinguishing Chronic Diffuse Sclerosing Osteomyelitis from Suppurative Osteomyelitis of the Mandible	1
The Endolymph Signal in Non-contrast Enhanced 3D-real IR Image Differs between the Ears with and without Significant Endolymphatic Hydrops	1
Ultra-short Echo-time MR Angiography Combined with a Subtraction Method to Assess Intracranial Aneurysms Treated with a Flow-diverter Device	1
Quantitative T2 Mapping to Discriminate Mucinous from Nonmucinous Adenocarcinoma in Rectal Cancer: Comparison with Diffusion-weighted Imaging	1
Voxel-based Morphometry of Alzheimer’s Disease Using a Localizer Image: A Comparative Study with Magnetization Prepared Rapid Acquisition with Gradient Echo	1
What Is the “Glymphatic System”?	1
Comparison of Brain Volume Measurements Made with 0.3- and 3-T MR Imaging	1
Effect of Temporal Sampling Rate on Estimates of the Perfusion Parameters for Patients with Moyamoya Disease Assessed with Simultaneous Multislice Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast-enhanced MR Imaging	1
Generating Synthetic MR Spectroscopic Imaging Data with Generative Adversarial Networks to Train Machine Learning Models	1
4D Flow MRI Reflects Physiological Hemodynamics for the Diagnosis and Management of Portosystemic Shunts	1
Toward Clinical Implementation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Placental Function	1
A Versatile MR Elastography Research Tool with a Modified Motion Signal-to-noise Ratio Approach	1
Pathological Factors Affecting the R2* Values of the Kidney in Blood Oxygenation Level-dependent MR Imaging: A Retrospective Study	1