The European Society of Radiology (ESR) has appointed Dr. Francesco Sardanelli as editor-in-chief of its new European Radiology Experimental journal.
European Radiology Experimental will offer a forum for basic scientific discoveries, and new approaches and techniques in experimental settings, serving as an addition to the clinically relevant research published in European Radiology, ESR said in a statement. New research fields such as radiomics and radiogenomics, and new techniques will also be within the scope of the journal, to be published online only in a fully open-access format.
Sardanelli is professor of radiology and director of the Postgraduation Course in Radiodiagnostics at Milan University, and director of the department of radiology at the Research Hospital (IRCCS) Policlinico San Donato in Milan. He is a long-time ESR member who served as president of the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) from 2012 to 2015. He is EUSOBI's delegate to the ESR's Research Committee, and is also director of the European Network for the Assessment of Imaging in Medicine (EuroAIM) of the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Research (EIBIR).
The decision to launch the new journal "comes at a time when two major needs for radiology are emerging all over the world: first, to have a specific journal fostering the connection between radiology (imaging, in a broader view) and the experimental setting; second, to answer the increasing demand for open access publishing of radiological research," Sardanelli said in a statement. The journal will be open to innovation in radiology including technical issues and new methodological approaches to clinical study design, he added.
European Radiology Experimental will be open for submissions in fall 2016, and its first publications are expected in time for ECR 2017 in March, ESR said.
