Overview

The Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC) invites abstract submissions for presentation at the 2026 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition, 9-14 May 2026, in Cape Town, South Africa. It is imperative that all submissions contain new, previously unpublished material. All abstracts must be submitted electronically via echo.ismrm.org.

Acceptance notices are emailed in February.

What’s New for 2026?

For 2026 we are moving to a new abstract submission platform, ECHO. Please be patient with us as we make this transition.

For the 2026 Annual Meeting, we are accepting submissions highlighting “MRI in Clinical Practice”. Details on the submission instructions are below. Continued from last year, we will also accept Registered Abstracts for the 2026 Annual Meeting.

Tips for Authors

• Start your submission early. You can complete the user registration, compose your abstract and then upload it at any time before the deadline. We recommend that you complete the user registration EARLY, even if your abstract is not yet complete. This will greatly reduce the load on the abstract system, improving speed of access as the deadline approaches.
• Contact all co-authors prior to submission. It is considered unethical to submit abstracts listing co-authors who have not agreed to the submission. In general, co-authors will expect to read and approve of the content of an abstract, but at a minimum they should be aware of the submission and consent to being listed as an author.
• Write a draft of the Impact and Synopsis before starting the rest of your abstract!
• Consider your submission categories and subcategories carefully. Abstract reviewers are assigned based on these categories. It is therefore critical that you select these carefully, as reviewers who are not expert in your topic may not be able to assess its quality appropriately. The categories, subcategories and keywords will also be used to assign accepted abstracts to sessions on the meeting.
• It is encouraged to use different primary and secondary categories and sub-categories wherever work crosses boundaries.
• See the full list of categories, subcategories and keywords here
• Review the ‘How to Submit an ISMRM abstract’ webinars available here: ISMRM Abstract Writing Webinar Series: An Overview of Crafting Strong ISMRM Abstracts, Session I, ISMRM Abstract Writing Webinar Series: Insights on Clinical & Technical Abstracts, Session II, and ISMRM Abstract Writing Webinar Series: Insights on Clinical & Technical Abstracts, Session III.

Publication of Abstracts

The Proceedings will be published electronically only. The full text of all accepted abstracts will be available online two weeks before the meeting to pre-registered attendees only (25 April 2026). If you wish to have access to the Proceedings before the meeting, you must pre-register.

All submitted abstracts are treated as confidential from the time of submission to the publication date of 25 April 2026.

All copyrights to accepted abstracts become the property of ISMRM. No proprietary information may be withheld by authors.