Call for papers - Photon counting technologies

Guest Editors

Jayasai Rajagopal, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA
Kenji Shimazoe, PhD, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 26 May 2025

BMC Medical Imaging is calling for submissions to our Collection on Photon counting technologies. In the last few years, photon counting technologies have shown a promising potential for medical imaging, offering profound advancements in diagnostic accuracy, image resolution, and radiation dose optimization.

This Collection aims to attract studies on multiple aspects of photon counting techniques in medical imaging, starting from general questions such as image processing and reconstruction, image resolution, spectral behavior, and radiation dose, but also including more specific advancements, such as validations or new clinical applications to particular organs or diseases.

New Content Item This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Jayasai Rajagopal, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA

Dr Jayasai Rajagopal works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Computational Science and Engineering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. His work focuses on the application of high-performance computing to in silico trials for medical imaging and therapy applications. He completed his PhD in Medical Physics under a joint program between Duke University and the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center focusing on acquisition physics, clinical applications, and algorithm development for spectral and photon counting CT.

Kenji Shimazoe, PhD, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Dr Kenji Shimazoe is Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. His research is focused on radiation measurement and imaging techniques such as PET, Compton imaging and photon counting CT. He specializes in the development of scintillation, semiconductor, gaseous detectors and associated readout electronics.

About the Collection

BMC Medical Imaging is calling for submissions to our Collection on Photon counting technologies. In the last few years, photon counting technologies have shown a promising potential for medical imaging, offering profound advancements in diagnostic accuracy, image resolution, and radiation dose optimization. This specialized area of research focuses on the development and utilization of photon counting techniques specifically tailored for medical imaging applications. Photon counting plays a role in various modalities including computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and X-ray imaging. The precision enabled by photon counting allows for enhanced detection and characterization of biological tissues and pathological conditions, thereby facilitating early diagnosis and treatment monitoring.

This Collection aims to attract studies on multiple aspects of photon counting techniques in medical imaging, starting from general questions such as image processing and reconstruction, image resolution, spectral behavior, and radiation dose, but also including more specific advancements, such as validations or new clinical applications to particular organs or diseases.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being.

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Photon counting technologies" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.