Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) intends to publish a special issue on Therapeutic Ultrasound. Given that a sufficiently large number of papers are accepted, these papers will appear as a group in a separate publication which will be the second part of a regular issue. Examples of such special issues may be found in the part two's of the January 2002, March
2005, September 2008, and November 2011, and January, February, and March 2012 issues.
General Topic
Therapeutic ultrasound is becoming an important medical technology, with exciting new developments in science, instrumentation, and clinical applications. It is envisioned that this special issue will provide a comprehensive indication of the best work that is currently being done in this emerging and growing area, and that it will serve as an archival reference for future research e orts. Papers are solicited over the entire discipline, including topics on characterization and metrology of acoustic fields of therapeutic devices, physical mechanisms of ultrasound-induced bioe ffects and dosimetry, instrumentation, and clinical aspects of such therapies as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), lithotripsy and shock wave therapy, physiotherapy, low amplitude therapy, ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery, gene therapy, and others. However, prospective authors should note that papers published in JASA must ful ll the requirement that the content must primarily focus on acoustics rather than be merely applicable to acoustics. Papers of a review nature will require special approval.
How to Submit Papers
Papers should be submitted in the usual manner for JASA via the Peer X-Press site. Go to the site http://asadl.org/jasa/ and click on the item "Submit to Journal."
When you submit a paper via the online submission process, you will ll out an outline form that is the same for all papers that are submitted. However, the form will include a new feature in the portion of the form that has a tab for "Keywords and PACS-43 Index Terms." There will be a drop down list at the bottom of the page that is labelled as "Special Issues." All special issues currently in progress will be listed in this drop-down list. The special issue you should select is TU (for Therapeutic Ultrasound).
To make doubly certain that your paper will be grouped with others intended for the special issue; you should upload a cover letter that identi es the paper as intended for the special issue on Therapeutic Ultrasound. A footnote with such identi cation should also appear on the title page of the manuscript. Authors should also send an e-mail to the Guest Editors [Lawrence A. Crum (lac@apl.washington.edu) and Vera A. Khokhlova (vera@acs366.phys.msu.ru)] informing them of the submission. The editors reserve the right of deciding whether the topic of the submission is appropriate for the special issue, but all submitted papers will be considered for publication in the Journal.
Peer-review and editorial decisions of submitted articles will be handled with the usual processes, but those accepted for the special issue will be be grouped together for the publication in the special issue.
Deadlines and Relevant Dates
Papers intended for the special issue should be submitted before August 31, 2012. The intent is that all papers accepted on or before December 1, 2012, will be passed-on to the production department for publication as a special issue. It is recognized that the progression of submitted manuscripts through the JASA Peer X-Press system takes a variable amount of time, sometimes as long as a year, although 3 months is the desired objective. If a manuscript is not fully accepted before December 1, 2012, it is unlikely that it will be possible to include it in the special issue. It is highly unlikely that any manuscript submitted after August 31, 2012 will be accepted sufficiently rapidly to be included. The time taken to review a manuscript is difficult to estimate in advance, and authors are frequently asked to submit revisions before a paper is nally accepted. The best strategy, if one desires a manuscript to be included, is to submit it as soon as possible. Papers accepted after the deadline will be published in the Journal, but not in the special issue.
Introductory Editorial
A brief editorial introducing the topic and the papers will be written by the Guest Editors Lawrence A. Crum and Vera A. Khokhlova in collaboration with the authors of the accepted papers.
