THIS YEAR MARKS THE 10th anniversary of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (SMRI). The 1992 meeting, to be held in New York City, promises to be one of the most memorable in the history of the Society. The SMRI had its tentative beginnings after an organizational meeting held in Houston in 1982. The first scientific meeting of the SMRI was held at the Broadmoor Hotel in Denver in 1983, and since that small gathering, the Society has grown steadily in size and diversity, gaining wide recognition for carrying out its chosen mandate of promoting educational, scientific, and technical information dissemination to a multidisciplinary group of clinical and basic scientists involved in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. In this year's program, the Society continues its successful tradition of fostering communication among the medical users of the modality, basic scientists, engineers, and support personnel. While the submissions of papers for the meeting last year indicated some stagnation, we are delighted to report substantial growth in scientific paper submissions, from 419 last year to 506 (+21%). This figure includes scientific papers (4031, scientific paper/posters