Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging

Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging

ISSN
2212-8794
Volume
2; 4 issues
Status
Last issue (2:2) online on 15 April 2013
Next issue
2:3 scheduled for July 2013
Back volumes
1
Subject
Biochemistry, Medicine & Health
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Advances in Biomedical Spectroscopy is a book series that complements the journal Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging (BSI). This book series is devoted to in-depth discussion of specific spectroscopic and imaging techniques. Latest advances in the application and development of these methods in health, life and biomedical sciences are covered. The books are intended to serve the needs of experienced scientists and early stage researchers in both academia and industry. 
Please visit Advances in Biomedical Spectroscopy for more information.

Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging (BSI) is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the timely publication of basic and applied research that uses spectroscopic and imaging techniques in different areas of life science including biology,  biochemistry, biotechnology, bionanotechnology,  environmental science, food science, pharmaceutical science, physiology and medicine.   Scientists are encouraged to submit their work for publication in the form of original articles, brief communications, rapid communications, reviews and mini-reviews.


The journal is dedicated to providing a single forum for experts in spectroscopy and imaging as applied to biomedical problems, and also for life scientists who use these powerful methods for advancing their research work.  BSI aims to promote communication, understanding and synergy across the diverse disciplines that rely on spectroscopy and imaging. It also encourages the submission of articles describing development of new devices and technologies, based on spectroscopy and imaging methods, for application in diverse areas including medicine, biomedical science, biomaterials science, environmental science, pharmaceutical science, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, microbiology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, etc.


Techniques covered include, but are not limited, to the following:


• Vibrational Spectroscopy (Infrared, Raman, Teraherz)
• Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
• Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR, ESR)
• UV-vis Spectroscopy
• Mössbauer Spectroscopy
• X-ray Spectroscopy (Absorption, Emission, Photoelectron, Fluorescence)
• Neutron Spectroscopy
• Mass Spectroscopy
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• X-ray and Neutron Scattering
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry
• Atomic Force Microscopy
• Surface Plasmon Resonance
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• X-ray Imaging
• Electron  Imaging
• Neutron Imaging
• Raman Imaging
• Infrared Imaging
• Terahertz  Imaging
• Fluorescence Imaging
• Near-infrared spectroscopy

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Parvez I. Haris
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences
De Montfort University
UK
Email: pharis@dmu.ac.uk

Editor for Asia

Z. Yu
Tsinghua University
Beijing
China

Editorial Board

A. Alimonti (Italian National Institute for Health, Rome, Italy)
Y. Asakawa (Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan)
M. Baranska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
J. S. Becker (Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany)
D. Cicero (University of Rome “Tor Nergata”, Rome, Italy)
J.G. Contreras (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
L. Davenport (Brooklyn College of CUNY, New York, NY, USA)
M. Davies (The Heart Research Institute, Sydney, Australia)
P. Dolashka (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
P. Dorozhkin (NT-MDT Co., Moscow, Russia)
E. Drakaki (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
M. Ferrari (University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy)
F. Galindo (Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Castellón de la Plana, Spain)
A. Gandjbakhche (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA)
N. Gierlinger (University of Natural Resources and Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
K. Glunde (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
J.C. Gomez-Fernandez (Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain)
I. Gorshkova (National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA)
D. Graham (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
A. Haka (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
H. Hebert (Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden)
E.M.C. Hillman (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
H-Y. Holman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA)
Z. Huang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
N. R. Jagannathan (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India)
R.A. Kauppinen (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)
E. Kennedy (University College, Dublin, Ireland)
J. P. Klare (University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany)
K. Kneipp, (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
W. Knoll (Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria)
H. Kobayashi (National Cancer Institute Bethesda, MD, USA)
C. Kraft (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitä t Jena, Jena, Germany)
J. Li (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada)
S-Y. Lin (Yuanpei University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
H. P. Lu (Bowling Green State University, OH, USA)
A. Macnab (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
J. M. McDonnell (Kings College London, London, UK)
L.M. Miller (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA)
K. Momot (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)
C. Muntean (National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
D. Naumann (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany)
T. Noguchi (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)
S.J. Perkins (University College London, London, UK)
R.J. Poppi (University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil)
F. Severcan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)
Z. Shao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China)
H. Shinzawa (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)
S. Sifakis (University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
L. Smith (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
G. Stephanopoulo (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
T. Sutherland (Central Melbourne Medical Imaging, Melbourne, Australia)
F.Tanfani (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)
K. Tominaga (Kobe University, Kobe, Japan)
H. Vogel  (University Of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)
E.X. Wu (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
G. Yoon (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea)
P. Yu (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
H. Zeng (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
J. Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
G. Zhu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China) 

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REFERENCES

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[1] B. Newman and E.T. Liu, Perspective on BRCA1, Breast Disease 10 (1998), 3-10.
[2] D.F. Pilkey, Happy conservation laws, in: Neural Stresses, J. Frost, ed., Controlled Press, Georgia, 1995, pp. 332-391.
[3] E. Wilson, Active vibration analysis of thin-walled beams, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1991.

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