Journal of Magnetocardiology
ISSN: 1872-3276 Volume 1; 4 issues
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Status Report: First issue (volume 1:1) scheduled for June 2008.
Aims and Scope
Editorial Board
Submission of Manuscripts
Editors-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. F. Jung
Inst. fur Herz- und Kreislaufforschung
Maria-Grollmußstraße 10
D-02977 Hoyerswerda
Germany
E-mail: dihkf@saarmail.de
Prof. Dr. Jai-Wun Park
Cardiology Division, Hoyerswerda Hospital
Academic Teaching Hospital of Technical University Dresden
Maria-Grollmußstraße 10
D-02977 Hoyerswerda
Germany
Editorial Board
| An editorial board of high standing is being invited |
Please contact editorial@iospress.nl for information. Magnetocardiology was first demonstrated at the beginning of 1970’s, but only in this decade has its technology reached a level fully suitable for clinical research and diagnostic practice. Early clinical studies were usually limited to small patient numbers, with limited statistical inference. Only recently, some studies on various aspects of cardiovascular disease are conducted with statistically significant sample sizes. Results of such studies published to date suggest high sensitivity and specificity, with high positive and negative predictive value in various clinical settings.
Magnetocardiology is a functional imaging diagnostics with different advantages for the patient, the clinician and the health care management, since this method:
- is entirely non-invasive,
- employs no radiation,
- is non-contact (electrodes are not required),
- is not observer-dependent,
- any kind of stress protocol is possible (pharmacologic, physical, mental),
- has highest time resolution of all imaging methods (msec),
- does not generate any acoustic noise,
- doesn’t stimulate claustrophobia,
- is relatively inexpensive,
- has a high potential for reducing cost of health care.
Prototypes of various magnetocardiographic imaging systems useful for daily clinical routine appear now on the market and the involvement of scientific community is growing.
The aim of the Journal of Magnetocardiology is to create a publication platform and a discussion forum for cardiologists and electrophysiologists, who are working in the newly expanding field of clinical magnetocardiology or are interested in it. Furthermore, physicists and engineers, who contribute to further improvements in hardware or software for clinical use are invited to submit contributions, which could be of direct interest also to clinicians. All submitted contributions will be subjected to rigorous peer reviews.