New Journal LOI: current status

Report to NPSS AdCom

Dimitris Visvikis

19 July 2014

Committee membership

• Dimitris Visvikis (NMIS, Chair)

• Joel Karp (NMIS, indexing)

• Paul Dressendorfer (pubs)

• Weihua Jiang (PPS&T)

• Mounir Laroussi (PSAC)

• Bob Zwaska (PAST)

• Mark Kushner (PSAC)

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Objectives

Propose a new journal that federates all activities of NPSS related to medical applications

Cover both imaging and therapy domains from detector development to treatment devices including associated software developments and clinical/preclinical proof of concept studies

Target a number of publications currently published from our members in physics journals (PMB, MedPhys, JofPhys_D, BiolApplPhys), specialist medical journals (EJNMMI, JNM, CPM), and non-specialized journals (ex.PlosOne)

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Tentative Title and Scope

IEEE Transactions on Ionizing Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences (TIRPMS)

Subjects:

1. Ionising Radiation Detectors for medical imaging

2. Clinical and pre-clinical imaging systems design and performance

3. Intra-Operative Probes & Portable Imaging Systems

4. Image reconstruction methods

5. Data corrections and quantitative imaging techniques

6. Signal and image processing

7. Multimodality imaging (hardware and software)

8. Therapy related system design and performance

9. Image guided therapy

10. Dosimetry and radiation/plasma-biological interactions for radiation

and plasma medical applications

11. Simulations for imaging and therapy applications

12. Clinical/preclinical evaluation studies (proof of concept)

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Provisional planning

08/14 Submission of final LOI version from the committee

08/14-10/14 Informal discussion with other societies for eventual participation (technical or financial co-sponsorship)

11/14 Submission of LOI to TAB (Nov meeting)

11/14-01/15 Formal discussions with other societies

02/15 Submission of phase 1 to TAB (Feb meeting)

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