ArticleJournal of imaging2026
Bibliometric Analysis of Whole-Body MRI from 2015 to 2025 Across Clinical Applications, Quantitative Imaging, and Artificial Intelligence.
Article in Journal of imaging, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) has become established for selected clinical indications and is increasingly studied across many fields including but not limited to oncologic, musculoskeletal, pediatric, and computational imaging applications. This study characterizes recent trends and the evolution of WB-MRI research using a bibliometric analysis reported using the PRISMA 2020 guidelines and identifies dominant clinical, quantitative, and artificial intelligence (AI) themes shaping the field. Publications were identified from Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed using WB-MRI and its variant search terms and filtered to articles and reviews from 2015 through to 2025. Bibliometric analyses summarized publication output, contributors, citations, and keywords, and used exploratory keyword rules to classify major clinical and technical themes. Of 1511 included WB-MRI publications, annual output increased from 124 in 2015 to 180 in 2025. The journals with the highest publication counts were European Radiology, PLoS ONE, and the European Journal of Radiology. Parsed author affiliations most frequently represented the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Research centered on oncologic applications, particularly myeloma and prostate cancer, alongside musculoskeletal disease, diffusion-weighted imaging, and AI-based segmentation. AI-related publications increased from 5 in 2015 to 20 in 2025. Broader clinical use of WB-MRI will require standardized acquisition, reproducible quantitative measures, and multicenter validation.
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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.