Steve is pleased to report that the Transactions of UFFC recently passed a review by the IEEE Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee with a clean bill of health; this review takes place every five years. Steve also reports that "turn around statistics" for the Transactions are at a record low: at 45 days for first decision and 55 for final decision. Thanks to Steve and all the Associate Editors.
Additionally, two Special Issues of the IEEE T-UFFC will be published in 2016; A Special Issue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Allan Variance and a Special Issue on Quantitative Ultrasound-Based Tissue Characterization. Full details and Calls for Papers are shown below.
Special Issue to celebrate the 50th anniversary
of the
Allan Variance (1966-2016)
CALL FOR PAPERS (PDF version)
Special Issue to celebrate the 50th anniversary
of the Allan Variance (1966-2016)
(Submission deadline: April 1, 2015)
When atomic clocks became widely used in the 1950s, it was quickly realized that the standard statistical techniques were not appropriate to model their behavior. Although the frequency of a device could be characterized as a random variable in some situations, this was not universally true for all observation times. In addition, the time of a clock, which was the integral of the frequency, and therefore was not a simple random variable, could not be treated by the standard statistical techniques of the period. David Allan and Jim Barnes, who were at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS at the time, later renamed NIST) started a research effort to model the performance of the time and frequency variations of atomic clocks, and the result was the Allan Variance, which is now universally used for this purpose. The 50th anniversary of this work will occur in 2016, and we think it is particular appropriate to recognize the very great impact that the Allan Variance (and related estimators such as the Modified Allan Variance, the Total variance, and others) has had on the field of time and frequency metrology, and also in other related applications.
List of expected and solicited content
- The derivation of the original two sample variance in the 1960s
- Modifications and improvements to the original two sample variance
- Applications of the variance to characterizing clocks and oscillators
- Comparing analyses in the Time and Fourier Frequency Domains
- Application to time scales
- Application to navigation systems
- The future of statistical tools in time and frequency metrology
- The usefulness of the Allan variance in other fields
All contributions should be submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Manuscript Central at http://tuffc-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When submitting, authors should select the Manuscript Type, “Special Issue Papers”. In addition, enter the name of this special issue in the field “If the manuscript type is ‘Special Issue’, please enter the name of the Special Issue”. It is important that your manuscript is distinguished from a regular submission. In the first paragraph of “Comments to Editor-in-Chief”, you should state that the submission is intended for the Special Issue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Allan Variance (1966-2016). Instructions for preparation and submission of your manuscript may be found on the IEEE Transactions on UFFC website: http://www.ieee-uffc.org/publications/tr/contrib.pdf.
All manuscripts are subject to the normal peer-review process. The submission deadline is April 1, 2015.
The guest editors will be
Judah Levine, JILA Boulder CO, E-mail: judah@jilau1.colorado.edu
Patrizia Tavella, INRIM, Italy, E-mail: tavella@inrim.it
Giorgio Santarelli, France, E-mail: Giorgio.santarelli@institutoptique.fr
Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on UFFC on
Quantitative Ultrasound-Based Tissue Characterization
CALL FOR PAPERS (PDF version)
Special Issue on Quantitative Ultrasound-Based
Tissue Characterization
(Submission deadline: June 30, 2015)
Techniques for quantitative tissue characterization have been extensively developed for decades in the ultrasound community. Several methods have reached a level of maturity that allows for reliable ex vivo and in vivo estimation of intrinsic tissue parameters. Recently, the success of quantitative elastographic methods to stage liver fibrosis has become an example of how ultrasonic tissue characterization has the potential to revolutionize clinical practice. Therefore, a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art quantitative ultrasound methods applied to tissue characterization becomes relevant.
The IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control therefore invites the submission of manuscripts on Quantitative Ultrasound-Based Tissue Characterization that fall within the scope of the UFFC Transactions. This Special Issue seeks contributions from authors who are engaged in estimating tissue parameters using ultrasound. Contributions are sought in new developments related, but not limited, to tissue characterization using:
- Quantitative elastography
- Backscatter and attenuation coefficient estimation
- Acoustic tomography and microscopy
- Functional ultrasound based on Doppler measurements and photo-acoustics
Please note that emphasis for this Special Issue is being given to experimental measurements in either ex vivo or in vivo settings. Papers will only be considered that have an experimental component with animal or human tissues.
All contributions should be submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Manuscript Central at http://tuffc-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When submitting, authors should select the Manuscript Type, “Special Issue Papers”. In addition, enter the name of this special issue in the field “If the manuscript type is ‘Special Issue’, please enter the name of the Special Issue”. It is important that your manuscript is distinguished from a regular submission. In the first paragraph of “Comments to Editor-in-Chief”, you should state that the submission is intended for the Special Issue on Quantitative Ultrasound-Based Tissue Characterization. Instructions for preparation and submission of your manuscript may be found on the IEEE Transactions on UFFC-S website: http://www.ieee-uffc.org/publications/tr/contrib.pdf.
All manuscripts are subject to the normal peer-review process. The submission deadline is June 30, 2015.
The guest editors will be
Dr. Roberto Lavarello
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
San Miguel, Lima 32, Peru
Email: lavarello.rj@pucp.edu.pe
Dr. Matthew Urban
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Email: urban.matthew@mayo.edu
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