Radiol Phys Technol (2017) 10:1 DOI 10.1007/s12194-017-0392-7
EDITORIAL
Message from Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editors: 10th Anniversary of Radiological Physics and Technology Kunio Doi1,2 • Fujio Araki3 • Masahiro Endo4 • Tomoyuki Hasegawa5 Shigehiko Katsuragawa6 • Yoshie Kodera7 • Shigeru Sanada8
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Published online: 22 February 2017 Ó Japanese Society of Radiological Technology and Japan Society of Medical Physics 2017
We celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Radiological Physics and Technology (RPT) which has been an official Englishlanguage Journal of the Japanese Society of Radiological Technology (JSRT) and the Japan Society of Medical Physics (JSMP), and is now also the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP) since 2016. The AFOMP is one of the regional groups in the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP), and includes 17 national groups in the region. Thus the scope of this Journal has been expanded to the new
Kunio Doi: Editor-in-Chief, RPT Fujio Araki, Masahiro Endo, Tomoyuki Hasegawa, Shigehiko Katsuragawa, Yoshie Kodera, Shigeru Sanada: Deputy Editor, RPT & Kunio Doi
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University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Gunma Prefectural College of Health Sciences, 323-1 Kamioki-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-0052, Japan
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Kumamoto University, 4-24-1 Kuhonji, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto 860-0976, Japan
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Association for Nuclear Technology in Medicine, 7-16 Nihombashi, Kodemma-cyo, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0001, Japan
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Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0374, Japan
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Teikyo University, 6-22 Misakimachi, Omuta, Fukuoka 836-8505, Japan
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Nagoya University, 1-1-20 Daiko-Minami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 461-8673, Japan
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Kanazawa University, 5-11-80 Kodatsuno, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0942, Japan
appointments of Associate Editors from eight regions including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand. The electronic version of the RPT is now available to all members of the AFOMP at a substantially reduced cost. The first issue of the RPT was published biannually in 2008, and the number of publications increased gradually over the years, thus yielding the total of 359 articles in 9 years, where the number of articles per year ranged from 28 to 64 [see ‘‘Brief History of Radiological Physics and Technology Journal (RPT)’’, in Medical Physics International Journal vol. 3, No. 2, pp 62–68, 2015]. For the cover of the Journal RPT, we honor the great pioneers in Radiological Science by displaying their portraits, laboratories, and unique equipment, and relevant images. The first pioneer is Wilhelm C. Roentgen (vol. 1, 2008); then follow Marie Curie (vol. 2, 2009), Godfrey Hounsfield (vol. 3, 2010), Peter Mansfield and Paul C. Lauterbur (vol. 4, 2011), Shinji Takahashi (vol. 5, 2012), Kurt Rossmann (vol. 6, 2013), Hal O. Anger (vol. 7, 2014), Antoine Becquerel (vol. 8, 2015), Rolf M. Sievert (vol. 9, 2016) and Louis H. Gray (vol. 10, 2017). From 2017, four issues of the RPT will be published annually. We welcome short articles describing clearly new ideas and new findings which are likely to have a significant impact on radiological physics and technology in the future. It is worthwhile to report new ideas and new findings as soon as possible, even if the supporting data might not be available completely at an early phase of research and development. Authors can then publish long articles later, with comprehensive analysis and extensive data, which will provide strong evidence and support for their early findings. Another advantage of short articles is that they can be prepared by authors quickly, reviewed by referees quickly, and read by many readers quickly.