Technology and Health Care
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Technology and Health Care is intended to serve as a forum for the presentation of original articles and technical notes, observing rigorous scientific standards. Furthermore, upon invitation, reviews, tutorials, discussion papers and minisymposia are featured. The main focus of THC is related to the overlapping areas of engineering and medicine. The following types of contributions are considered:
Original articles: New concepts, procedures and devices associated with the use of technology in medical research and clinical practice are presented to a readership with a widespread background in engineering and/or medicine. In particular, clinical cooperation is important and the clinical benefit deriving from the application of engineering methods and devices in clinical medicine should be demonstrated. Typically, full length original contributions have a length of 4000 words, thereby taking duly into account figures and tables.
Technical Notes and Short Communications: Technical Notes relate to novel technical developments with relevance for clinical medicine. In Short Communications, clinical applications are shortly described. Both Technical Notes and Short Communications typically have a length of 1500 words.
Reviews and Tutorials (upon invitation only): Tutorial and educational articles for persons with a primarily medical background on principles of engineering with particular significance for biomedical applications and vice versa are presented. The Editorial Board is responsible for the selection of topics.
Minisymposia (upon invitation only): Under the leadership of a Special Editor, controversial or important issues relating to health care are highlighted and discussed by various authors.
Letters to the Editors: Discussions or short statements (not indexed).
Specific topics relating to medical and biological engineering within the journal’s scope are:
- Biomedical signal processing
- Medical physics, biomedical imaging and radiation protection
- Bio-micro/nano technologies
- Biomaterials and artificial organs
- Biomechanics, bioelectronics, robotics and minimally invasive surgery
- Cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrine systems engineering
- Neural and rehabilitation engineering
- Molecular, cellular and tissue engineering
- Bioinformatics and computations biology
- Clinical engineering and health technology assessment
- Health informatics, e-health, home health and telemedicine
- Pharmaceutical engineering
- Genetic engineering
- Veterinary engineering
- Metrology in medical measurements
Note: In consideration of the rapid development of medical IT, the description of computer programs, in particular of AI and machine learning procedures, exhibiting screen shots, explicit computer code, etc. is not accepted for publication because of imminent obsoleteness. Likewise, for the same reason, computer-based image or biological signal analysis procedures without demonstration of long-lasting clinical relevance are not suited for publication. Furthermore, the presentation of surveys and questionnaire projects, often with local participation only, is not in agreement with the aims & scope of the journal.
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| Matthias Lahner | Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
| Bola Asiyanbola | Meharry Medical College, USA |
| Makoto Ohta | Tohoku University, Japan |
| Edin Begic | Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Ram Bhagyalakshmi | PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, India |
| Saurabh Chaturvedi | King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia |
| Nenad Filipovic | University of Kragujevac, Serbia |
| Lejla Gurbeta Pokvic | Verlab Research Institute, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Julfikar Haider | Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
| Ernesto Iadanza | University of Siena, Italy |
| Seifedine Kadry | Noroff University College, Norway |
| Chi Lin | Dalian University Of Technology, China |
| Allesio Luschi | University of Siena, Italy |
| Leandro Pecchia | University of Rome, Italy |
| Wolfram Teske | Ruhr University, Germany |
| Georgios Theodoropoulos | Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China |
| Melvyn Zhang Weibin | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Shanmugam Balamurugan | Intelligent Research Consultancy Services, India |
| Marina Carbone | University of Pisa, Italy |
| Gerardo Catapano | University of Calabria, Italy |
| Mustafa Citak | Helios ENDO Clinic Hamburg, Germany |
| Sara Condino | University of Pisa, Italy |
| James Covington | University of Warwick, UK |
| David Elad | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Mark Donnelly | Ulster University, UK |
| Garry Duffy | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Ireland |
| Juan Fang | Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland |
| Irum Feroz | University of Bolton, UK |
| Chiara Fontanella | University of Padova, Italy |
| Chandra Babu Gokulnath | Vellore Institute of Technology, India |
| Joachim Hammer | Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
| Jungsoo Han | Baekseok University, Korea |
| Petra Hospodková | Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic |
| Kenneth Hunt | Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland |
| Christine Huttin | Aix-Marseille University, France |
| Yizhang Jiang | Jiangnan University, China |
| Ashish Joshi | University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA |
| Cathal Kearney | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Ireland |
| Dimitris Koutsouris | National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
| Gregorij Kurillo | University of California - San Francisco, USA |
| Adam Liebert | Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland |
| Dieter Liepsch | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
| Paul Lunkenheimer | University Hospital Muenster, Germany |
| Peter Manser | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Maria Maddalena Marrapodi | University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy |
| Zlatko Matjacic | University Rehabilitation Institute, Slovenia |
| Matjaz Mihelj | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Marina Milosevic | University of Kragujevac, Serbia |
| Giuseppe Minervini | University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy |
| Hamidreza Namazi | Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia |
| Stanislav Polzer | Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| Christopher Pulliam | Case Western Reserve University, USA |
| Vladimir Rogalewicz | Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic |
| Jude Savarraj | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA |
| Amulya Saxena | Imperial College London, UK |
| Kai-Uwe Schmitt | AGU Zurich, Switzerland |
| Ayush Singhal | University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA |
| Min Soon Kim | University of Missouri School of Medicine, USA |
| Ling Sun | Zimmer Inc., USA |
| Nirmalya Thakur | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA |
| Mohy Uddin | King Saud bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia |
| Kelvin Yeung | The University of Hong Kong Medical Centre, China |
| Yudong Zhang | University of Leicester, UK |