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BMC Medical Physics - linking physicists and physicians to improve treatment and diagnosis of disease

BioMed Central is proud to announce the launch of BMC Medical Physics, the latest addition to its successful BMC series of journals.  This journal will be guided by an all new Editorial Board and will publish research on the latest advances in medical physics.

The application of physics to the diagnosis and management of human disease has developed rapidly in recent years . Electrocardiograms, mammograms and ultrasound scans have become familiar aspects of routine healthcare. Radiation therapy plays a major role in cancer treatment, and positron emission tomography is increasingly used in diagnosis and evaluation.  Magnetic resonance imaging, both functional and structural, is being used to understand the basis of a variety of neurologic and psychiatric diseases.

BMC Medical Physics continues from its predecessor, BMC Nuclear Medicine, but has broadened its scope to cover research on all aspects of radiobiology, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, imaging, photomedicine and physiological measurement.

BMC Medical Physics aims to provide researchers in the field of medical physics with an open access venue where they can communicate and discuss technological or theoretical developments as well as novel applications of physics to medicine and physiology.  BMC-series journals impose no limits on the length of article or the number of images, so medical physics researchers will be able to present full movies and high quality color images at no extra cost.  This freedom, combined with the BMC series' rapid peer review, makes BMC Medical Physics an outstanding venue for physicists and physicians working in medical physics to publish their research.

In addition to its renewed scope and aims, BMC Medical Physics sets off with a new international Editorial Board.  The peer review process for the journal is managed by external academic Associate Editors, in collaboration with the BMC-series in-house editorial team, under the oversight of Melissa Norton, the BMC series' Editor-in-Chief.

Submissions to BMC Medical Physics are fully peer-reviewed and articles are published immediately on acceptance. Like all the medical journals in the BMC series, BMC Medical Physics operates an open peer review process, which means that reviewers are asked to provide signed reports for authors, and also that the reviews will be made publicly available as part of the published article’s ‘Pre-publication history’.

BMC Medical Physics  is indexed by PubMed, CAS, and Google Scholar. Articles published by BMC Nuclear Medicine will continue to be available via the BMC Medical Physics website.

If you are interested in submitting a manuscript or being involved with the journal as a reviewer, Editorial Board Member, or Associate Editor, or if you would like further information about BMC Medical Physics, please contact us.

We welcome feedback and suggestions from readers, reviewers and members of the Editorial Board for areas of research and discussion that would be of interest to the journal’s audience.

Iratxe Puebla
Senior Assistant Editor
BMC-series journals

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