Special Issue on Functional Imaging of the Heart

Bin He and Boudewijn Lelieveldt
Guest Editors

Cardiovascular diseases represent a significant threat to public
health. Of importance is to detect cardiovascular disorders in an
early stage and to better guide intervention. Cardiac imaging has
played an important role in both basic cardiovascular research and
clinical cardiology. Of particular interest is the recent development
in functional imaging of the heart. Innovative imaging methods have
been developed to image the functional status of the heart from
magnetic resonance, electrical, mechanical, acoustic, and optical
measurements among others. These functional imaging techniques have
shown great promises to reveal the underlying mechanisms of
cardiovascular diseases and offer potential means of aiding clinical
diagnosis and management of cardiac disorders.

This Special Issue will highlight new approaches to the exciting field
of cardiac functional imaging, including new functional imaging
modalities, new analysis techniques to derive functional information
from existing measurement systems, and novel approaches for validation
and clinical applications of cardiac functional imaging. Original
submissions in areas including, but not limited to, the following
topics, are invited:
        . Novel functional cardiac imaging modalities
        . Electrophysiological cardiac imaging
        . Model-based functional imaging
        . Magnetic resonance imaging
        . Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
        . PET imaging of cardiac function
        . Novel contrast mechanisms
        . Analysis methods for rest-stress studies
        . Strain and strain-rate imaging
        . Fusion of information on coronary, global and regional function
        . Imaging and quantification of cardiac dyssynchrony
        . Quantitative assessment of valve function
        . Computer-aided diagnosis of cardiac pathologies
        . Quantification of changes in longitudinal cardiac imaging studies
        . Visualization
        . Validation
        . Clinical applications involving novel imaging techniques

The IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging seeks high-quality original
research papers for this Special Issue. Authors should submit their
manuscripts electronically through the IEEE Manuscript Central Office
(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmi-ieee) following the TMI
Instructions for Authors and indicating in the Author Comments to the
Editor-in-chief that the manuscript be considered for the special
issue on Functional Imaging of the Heart. Authors intending to submit
articles are encouraged to discuss their submissions with the Guest
Editors to determine suitability for this Special Issue.

Guest Editors:
Bin He, PhD 
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University Minnesota
7-105 NHH
312 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
Phone:   +1 612 626 1115
e-mail: binhe@umn.edu 

Boudewijn Lelieveldt, PhD
Division of Image Processing
Department of Radiology, 1-C2S
Leiden University Medical Center
P.O. Box 9600
2300 RC Leiden
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)71 526 1117
e-mail: B.Lelieveldt@lumc.nl
  	  
Schedule:
Submission of manuscripts: 1st  January 2008
Acceptance/rejection notification: 1st  April 2008
Revised manuscripts due: 1st June 2008
Publication Special Issue: October 2008