Mami Iima

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Mami Iima is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Mami Iima has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 7 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 5 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Recurrent topics in Mami Iima's work include MRI in cancer diagnosis (64 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (44 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (32 papers). Mami Iima is often cited by papers focused on MRI in cancer diagnosis (64 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (44 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (32 papers). Mami Iima collaborates with scholars based in Japan, France and Germany. Mami Iima's co-authors include Denis Le Bihan, Kaori Togashi, Masako Kataoka, Shotaro Kanao, Maya Honda, Masakazu Toi, Eric E. Sigmund, Akane Ohashi, Savannah C. Partridge and Natsuko Onishi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Radiology.

In The Last Decade

Mami Iima

71 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Clinical Intravoxel Incoherent Motion and Diffusion MR Imaging: Past, Present, and Future

2015 392 citations Mami Iima, Denis Le Bihan profile →
Diffusion-weighted imaging of the breast—a consensus and mission statement from the EUSOBI International Breast Diffusion-Weighted Imaging working group

2019 270 citations Mami Iima, Savannah C. Partridge et al. European Radiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mami Iima Japan	21	2.0k	198	157	104	98	76	2.2k
Guoying Liu United States	9	1.9k 0.9×	76 0.4×	253 1.6×	60 0.6×	82 0.8×	13	2.2k
Ramona Woitek Austria	26	1.1k 0.6×	203 1.0×	248 1.6×	121 1.2×	230 2.3×	88	2.0k
Bénédicte M. A. Delattre Switzerland	22	722 0.4×	110 0.6×	237 1.5×	35 0.3×	82 0.8×	61	1.3k
Hon J. Yu United States	27	1.5k 0.7×	307 1.6×	256 1.6×	364 3.5×	349 3.6×	56	2.2k
Shiteng Suo China	19	923 0.5×	57 0.3×	198 1.3×	53 0.5×	111 1.1×	65	1.1k
Renaud Lhommel Belgium	20	689 0.3×	85 0.4×	392 2.5×	51 0.5×	77 0.8×	86	1.4k
Kazufumi Kikuchi Japan	22	1.2k 0.6×	119 0.6×	173 1.1×	43 0.4×	74 0.8×	88	1.7k
David K. W. Yeung Hong Kong	19	827 0.4×	107 0.5×	151 1.0×	46 0.4×	92 0.9×	31	1.6k
H. Hawighorst Germany	28	1.4k 0.7×	49 0.2×	511 3.3×	87 0.8×	117 1.2×	68	2.0k
Holger Schmidt Germany	29	1.7k 0.8×	41 0.2×	309 2.0×	42 0.4×	250 2.6×	93	2.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mami Iima

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Honda, Maya, Masako Kataoka, Mami Iima, et al.. (2025). Institutional Variability in Ultrafast Breast MR Imaging: Comparing Compressed Sensing and View Sharing Techniques with Different Patient Populations and Contrast Injection Protocols. Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences. 24(4). n/a–n/a. 1 indexed citations

Honda, Maya, Mami Iima, Masako Kataoka, et al.. (2025). Breast cancer imaging without gadolinium-based contrast agent: A review of current applications and future trends. Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging. 107(2). 51–61.

Kataoka, Masako, Maya Honda, Mami Iima, et al.. (2025). Quantitative MR Imaging of the Breast. Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences. 24(3). n/a–n/a. 1 indexed citations

Kurokawa, Ryo, Akifumi Hagiwara, Rintaro Ito, et al.. (2025). Illuminating radiogenomic signatures in pediatric-type diffuse gliomas: insights into molecular, clinical, and imaging correlations. Part II: low-grade group. La radiologia medica. 130(9). 1503–1515.

Kurokawa, Ryo, Akifumi Hagiwara, Daiju Ueda, et al.. (2025). Illuminating radiogenomic signatures in pediatric-type diffuse gliomas: insights into molecular, clinical, and imaging correlations. Part I: high-grade group. La radiologia medica. 130(11). 1871–1887.

Iima, Mami, Masako Kataoka, Mārtiņš Otikovs, et al.. (2024). Comparing Lesion Conspicuity and ADC Reliability in High-resolution Diffusion-weighted Imaging of the Breast. Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences. 24(4). n/a–n/a. 2 indexed citations

Iima, Mami, Maya Honda, Hiroko Satake, & Masako Kataoka. (2024). Standardization and advancements efforts in breast diffusion-weighted imaging. Japanese Journal of Radiology. 43(3). 347–354. 2 indexed citations

Bihan, Denis Le, Mami Iima, & Savannah C. Partridge. (2024). Fat-signal suppression in breast diffusion-weighted imaging: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. European Radiology. 35(2). 733–741. 5 indexed citations

Kataoka, Masako, Mami Iima, Maya Honda, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of breast lesions based on modified BI-RADS using high-resolution readout-segmented diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging and T2/T1-weighted image. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 98. 132–139. 4 indexed citations

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Iima, Mami, Ryo Sakamoto, Akira Yamamoto, et al.. (2023). The Efficacy of CT Temporal Subtraction Images for Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva. Tomography. 9(2). 768–775. 1 indexed citations

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Kataoka, Masako, Koji Fujimoto, Mami Iima, et al.. (2023). Quantification of Tumor-Related Vessel Length on UF-DCE MRI and Their Association with Breast Cancer Subtypes [Presidential Award Proceedings]. 43(2). 63–65. 1 indexed citations

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Iima, Mami, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of apparent diffusion coefficient of two-dimensional BLADE turbo gradient- and spin-echo diffusion-weighted imaging with a breast phantom. Radiological Physics and Technology. 16(1). 118–126. 1 indexed citations

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Iima, Mami, Hirohiko Imai, Akihiko Yoshizawa, et al.. (2022). Investigation of breast cancer microstructure and microvasculature from time-dependent DWI and CEST in correlation with histological biomarkers. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 6523–6523. 10 indexed citations

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Kataoka, Masako, Mami Iima, Kanae K. Miyake, & Yoshiaki Matsumoto. (2022). Multiparametric imaging of breast cancer: An update of current applications. Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging. 103(12). 574–583. 14 indexed citations

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Iima, Mami, Savannah C. Partridge, & Denis Le Bihan. (2020). Six DWI questions you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask: clinical relevance for breast diffusion MRI. European Radiology. 30(5). 2561–2570. 45 indexed citations

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Kishimoto, Ayami Ohno, Masako Kataoka, Mami Iima, et al.. (2020). The comparison of high-resolution diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) with high-resolution contrast-enhanced MRI in the evaluation of breast cancers. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 71. 161–169. 16 indexed citations

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Förnvik, Daniel, Masako Kataoka, Mami Iima, et al.. (2018). The role of breast tomosynthesis in a predominantly dense breast population at a tertiary breast centre: breast density assessment and diagnostic performance in comparison with MRI. European Radiology. 28(8). 3194–3203. 9 indexed citations

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Kanao, Shotaro, Masako Kataoka, Mami Iima, et al.. (2017). High-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI of the breast using readout-segmented EPI and single-shot EPI. Imaging in Medicine. 9(6). 185–190. 5 indexed citations

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Iima, Mami, Masako Kataoka, Ryosuke Okumura, & Kaori Togashi. (2014). Detection of axillary lymph node metastasis with diffusion-weighted MR imaging. Clinical Imaging. 38(5). 633–636. 13 indexed citations

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Iima, Mami, Akira Yamamoto, Tomohisa Okada, et al.. (2012). Reduced-Distortion Diffusion MRI of the Craniovertebral Junction. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 33(7). 1321–1325. 18 indexed citations

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