期刊名称：ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY ISSN： 0301-5629 版本： SCI-CDE 出版频率： Monthly 出版社： ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, STE 800, 230 PARK AVE, NEW YORK, USA, NY, 10169   出版社网址： http://www.elsevier.nl/ 影响因子： 2.998 主题范畴： ACOUSTICS;    RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (UMB) is the official journal of the World Federation for Ultrasound in   Medicine and Biology. The journal publishes original contributions on significant advances in clinical diagnostic, interventional and therapeutic applications, new and improved clinical techniques, the physics, engineering and technology of ultrasound in medicine and biology, and the interactions between ultrasound and biological materials, including bioeffects. Extended reviews of subjects of contemporary interest in the field are also published, in addition to occasional editorial articles, clinical and technical notes, letters to the editor and a calendar of forthcoming meetings. It is the aim of the journal fully to meet the information and publication requirements of the clinicians, scientists, engineers and other professionals who constitute the biomedical ultrasonic community. Visit the web site of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology at: http://www.wfumb.org/ for more information, including affiliated organizations, congresses, newsletters       Instructions to Authors   Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology publishes reports of significant advances in basic science, engineering and technology, and in clinical applications. Original articles encompass the physics of ultrasound, the interactions between ultrasound and biological materials, surgical and therapeutic applications, improvements in clinical techniques and new clinical applications. Extended reviews of subjects of contemporary interest are published. In addition, brief technical and clinical notes, letters to the editor, and a calendar of forthcoming meetings make UMB a complete source of information for ultrasound scientists, engineers and clinicians. It is the aim of the Journal to fully meet the publication needs of the biomedical ultrasonic community. Original Contributions: Peer-reviewed, high-quality research investigations dealing with ultrasound and its applications in biomedicine. Review Articles: Reviews of major areas or subareas in ultrasound in medicine and biology. These articles may be of any length and are peer-reviewed. Technical and Clinical Notes: Brief studies which are rapidly peer-reviewed [approximately 4 printed pages (12 mss pages) or less]. Book Reviews: Reviews and abstracts of the current literature in the appropriate fields will be published. Authors and publishers should forward newly published works to the Associate Editor for Book Reviews. Letters to the Editor: Comments on articles published in the Journal and on other matters of interest to ultrasound researchers. Calendar: Provides notices of forthcoming meetings, courses, and other events relevant to ultrasound researchers. WFUMB Newsletter: News concerning societies affiliated with the WFUMB (e.g., the names and addresses of newly elected officers as well as narrative reports of scientific meetings) should be sent directly to the Newsletter Editor. This material should not be sent to the Editor-in-Chief of UMB. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Manuscripts are accepted for consideration with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere except in abstract form and are not concurrently under review elsewhere. Material for publication may be sent to the Editor-in-Chief: Professor P. N. T. Wells, Bristol General Hospital, Bristol BS1 6SY, United Kingdom; email: peter.wells@bris.ac.uk; telephone: (+117) 9286274; fax: (+117) 9286371. Please supply the corresponding author's address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address if available. Manuscripts will be reviewed by appropriate members of the Editorial Board and other consultants with expertise in the area of presentation. Acceptance will depend on originality, relevance, and scientific content of the material. When the manuscript deals with methodology describing the effects of ultrasound upon physical or biological systems, an exact description of the components used, their characteristics and their set-up must be provided so that other researchers will be able to duplicate the observations and measurements made. When the manuscript deals with a novel method, technique or system, the principles upon which it is based must be described in detail for its principles of operation to be understood clearly by experts in the field. If the system incorporates engineering or signal processing procedures, which are not conventional or commercially available, these procedures must be described in detail. Block diagrams usually describe the sequence of conventional procedures used in the system. The improved performance of such novel systems over existing systems must be described and illustrated as well as limitations and errors to which the system described is subject. Responsibility for protection of proprietary information will rest with the authors. When the manuscript deals with clinical studies in which commercial diagnostic ultrasound systems are used, these should be identified with brand name and the manufacturer's address. The console and transducers should be specified, as well as relevant control settings. Authors must also disclose all forms of financial support both monetary and in equipment, received by themselves and their co-authors in performing and describing the work which is the subject of the submitted manuscript. All manuscripts except book reviews and letters should be submitted in triplicate, typed double spaced, in English, with an abstract summarizing briefly the essential contents. The original manuscript and two photocopies of the manuscript and line drawings should be submitted. Also include one set of camera-ready photographs (glossy prints) for each copy of the manuscript submitted. Manuscripts should be accompanied by: (1) a cover letter including the name, address, and phone and fax numbers of the author to whom correspondence should be sent; (2) copies of any published reports that may duplicate material in the submitted manuscript; and (3) written permission of author(s) and publisher(s) to use any previously published material (figures, tables, or quotations of more than 100 words). Authors should retain an additional copy of the manuscript and figures for their own files. Upon receipt of a manuscript for publication, a copyright transfer will be sent to the author(s). This transfer must be signed and dated and returned to the Editor-in-Chief. Letters to the Editor dealing with published articles or matters of interest to ultrasound researchers are invited. They should be short (normally not more than 400 words), typed double spaced, and include references where appropriate. Where a published article is involved, the original author(s) will be invited to submit a response. Book Reviews are encouraged. Authors and publishers are invited to submit newly published works for review to the Associate Editor for Book Reviews. Calendar, including meeting and course announcements, is published in the Journal. All such items will be listed (at no charge) in each issue. Please submit the date, conference/course title, and contact name to the Editor-in-Chief's office at least 6 months in advance. Nomenclature and Abbreviations in all manuscripts should conform to the Syst¨¨me International d'Unit¨¦s (SI) and all authors are encouraged to obtain a guide to the SI entitled Units, Symbols and Abbreviations from the Royal Society of Medicine. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION Type the manuscript on standard A4 or 8.5" 11" white bond paper with broad margins. Use double spacing throughout, including the references and figure legends. Organize the manuscript in the order indicated below, with each component beginning on a separate page. Number each page in the upper right-hand corner. Title Page. Page 1 should include: (1) the title of the article (80 spaces maximum); (2) the authors' full names, including those who have contributed sufficiently to the work to take public responsibility for the contents of the manuscript, and should be listed in descending order of their contribution to the entire work; (3) affiliations [the name of department (if any), institution, city, and state/country where the work was done], indicating which authors are associated with which institution; (4) the name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address (if available) of the corresponding author and, if different, the author to whom reprint requests are to be sent; and (5) a running title of not more than 30 characters and spaces. Abstract and Keywords. Page 2 should include the title of the article, followed by the abstract, which should have no more than 150 words. The abstract should state the purpose of the study, basic procedures, most important findings, and principal conclusions with an emphasis on the new aspects of the study. Following the abstract, list up to 10 keywords or phrases for indexing. Text. All manuscripts should be typed on one side of the paper, double spaced, with wide margins. Original contributions, Reviews, and Technical and Clinical Notes should be organized in the following format: Introduction and Literature, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Summary, Acknowledgements, References, Appendices if needed. In some cases the Results and Discussion sections may more appropriately be combined than separated (at the author's discretion). Every effort should be made to avoid jargon, to spell out all nonstandard abbreviations the first time they are mentioned, and to present the contents of the study as clearly and concisely as possible. References. Text References: References should be cited in the text stating, within parentheses, the author's surname and the year of publication, e.g. (Smith 1965). However, if the name is used as part of the sentence, only the year of publication need be given in the parentheses. Example: "...the study by Smith (1965) showed significant results." If a reference has two authors, the citation should include the surnames of both authors. Example: (Smith and Jones 1965) or Smith and Jones (1965). If a reference has more than two authors, the citation should include only the surname of the senior author and the abbreviation et al. Example: (Smith et al. 1965) or Smith et al. (1965). Multiple citations should be separated by semicolons and listed in alphabetical order. Example: (Brown 1965; Gray 1986; Jones 1988; Smith 1978). If the author(s) and the year are identical for more than one reference, a lowercase letter should be inserted after the year. Example: (Smith and Jones 1965a, 1965b) or Smith and Jones (1965a, 1965b). "Personal communications" may not be used as references, although references to written, nor oral, communications may be inserted (in parentheses) in the text. Information from manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted should be cited in the text as "unpublished observations" (in parentheses). Reference list: The reference list should begin on a separate page at the end of the paper, and should be typed double spaced like the text. This list is alphabetized by authors' surnames, not numbered. All references should be cited in the text, and should be verified by the author(s) against the original documents. For each reference, all authors should be listed when five or less; when six or more, only the first three authors should be listed, followed by et al. Citations to the same author(s) should be listed with the oldest date first. The full title of articles, chapters and books, and the beginning and ending page numbers should be given. Book references should include the location and name of the publisher. Papers that are accepted but not yet published can be included among the references by designating the journal and adding "in press" (in parentheses). The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in the List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus, published annually as a separate publication by the US National Library of Medicine and as a list in the January issue of Index Medicus. Examples of correct forms of references are given below: Journal: Fleming AD, McDicken WN, Sutherland GR, Hoskins PR. Assessment of colour Doppler tissue imaging using test-phantoms. Ultrasound Med Biol 1994;20:937-951. Book: Williams AR. Ultrasound: Biological effects and potential hazards. New York: Academic Press, 1983. Edited book: Haney MJ, O'Brien WD. Temperature dependency of ultrasonic propagation properties in biological materials. In: Greenleaf JF, ed. Tissue characterization with ultrasound. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1986:15-55. Footnotes. Footnotes, as distinct from literature references, should be avoided. Where they are essential, the following symbol order should be used: * ¡ì . Tables.Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals. Authors are asked to keep each table to a reasonable size; very large tables, packed with data, simply confuse the reader. Each table and every column should be provided with an explanatory heading, with units of measure clearly indicated. The same data should not be reproduced in both table and figures. Footnotes to a table should be indicated by symbols in the following order: * ¡ì . Figures. Photographs, or half-tone illustrations, should be glossy prints. Each should have the first author's name, the figure number, and an indication as to which is the top of the figure lightly written on the back. Lines or lettering appearing on the photograph should be clear. One set of half-tones should be supplied for each copy of the manuscript; do not send photocopies of half-tones. Color photos may be included in articles where essential; please label each figure as per the half-tone instructions. Diagrams, or line drawings, consist of only pure black-and-white material. One set of original line drawings need to be supplied with the original manuscript and photocopies should be attached to the additional copies of the manuscript. Charts and line drawings should be drawn in Indian ink on white paper; all relevant measurements must be included. Please label all charts and line drawings as above. Figure Legends. Legends should be typed double spaced and numbered with Arabic numerals corresponding to the figures, and submitted on a separate page. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the figure, each should be explained clearly in the legend. For photomicrographs, the internal scale markers should be defined and the method of staining should be given. The legends should permit the figures to be understood without reference to the text. If the figure has been previously published, a credit line should be included and a permission letter supplied by the author. Computer Disks. Authors are encouraged to submit a 3.5" HD/DD computer disk to the editorial office; 5.25" HD/DD disks are acceptable if 3.5" disks are unavailable. Please observe the following criteria: 1. Send only hard copy when first submitting your paper. 2. When your paper has been refereed, revised if necessary, and accepted, send a disk containing the final version with the final hard copy. Make sure that the disk and the hard copy match exactly (otherwise the diskette version will prevail). 3. Specify what software was used, including which release, e.g., WordPerfect 6.0a. 4. Specify what computer was used (IBM compatible PC, Apple Macintosh, etc.). 5. The article file should include all textual material (text, references, tables, figure captions, etc.) and separate illustration files, if available. 6. The file should follow the general instructions on style/arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of this journal as given in the Instructions to Contributors. 7. The file should be single spaced and should use the wrap-around end-of-line feature, i.e., returns at the end of paragraphs only. Place two returns after every element such as title, headings, paragraphs, figure, and table call-outs. 8. Keep a back-up disk for reference and safety. REVIEW AND PRODUCTION PROCESS All manuscripts are peer reviewed. All material accepted for publication is subject to copyediting. Authors will receive page proofs of their article before publication, should answer all queries, and carefully check all editorial changes. Any corrections to proofs must be restricted to printer's errors; other than these, any substantial changes at this stage will be charged to the author. Authors of all articles, except Letters to the Editor, will receive 25 free offprints. Additional copies may be purchased using the offprint order form that is sent with the page proofs. There is a voluntary page charge which, however, is not a condition of publication.     Editorial Board   Editor-in-Chief: Peter N.T. Wells, Bristol General Hospital, Bristol, BS1 6SY, UK Founding Editor: Denis N. White Newsletter Editor: C.R.B. Merritt, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 132 South 10th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA Associate Editor for Author/Subject Index: M. Halliwell, Bristol General Hospital, Bristol BS1 6SY, UK Associate Editor for Book Reviews: F.A. Duck, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG, UK Advisory Editorial Board: Y.H. Auh, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea J.D. Baker, VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA J.C. Bamber, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK S.B. Barnett, CSIRO, Lindfield, Australia K.W. Beach, University of Washington, Seattle, USA N. Bom, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands E.L. Carstensen, University of Rochester, USA Y. Chiba, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan B.I. Choi, Seoul National University Hospital, Korea G. Cloutier, University of Montreal Hospital, Canada R.S.C. Cobbold, University of Toronto, Canada A.J. Coleman, St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK D.O. Cosgrove, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK M. Delius, Institute for Surgical Research, Munich, Germany F. Dunn, Tucson, Arizona, USA M. Dyson, King's College, London, UK P.D. Edmonds, Stanford Research Institute, Palo Alto, USA S.H. Eik-Nes, University of Trondheim, Norway D.H. Evans, Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK J.A Evans, Leeds General Infirmary, UK P.J. Fish, University of Wales, Bangor, UK G.V. Forester, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada F. Forsberg, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA F.S. Foster, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada L. Frizzell, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA M. Fukuda, Sapporo Medical College, Japan R.W. Gill, CSIRO, Epping, Australia B.B. Goldberg, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA J. Greenleaf, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, USA G.R. ter Haar, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK A.P.G. Hoeks, University of Limburg, The Netherlands P.R. Hoskins, The Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK F.-J. Hsieh, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan K. Hynynen, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA J. Jellins, Double Bay, NSW, Australia J.P. Jones, University of California, Irvine,USA N. de Jong, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands F.W. Kremkau, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA A. Kurjak, Croatian Association of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, Zagreb, Croatia S. Lees, Forsyth Dental Center, Boston, USA T. Leighton, University of Southampton, UK F. Lizzi, Riverside Research Institute, New York, USA E.L. Madsen, University of Wisconsin, Madison,USA M. Makuuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan W.N. McDicken, The Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK D.L. Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA M.W. Miller, University of Rochester, USA N.C. Nanda, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA M. Nanna, Montefiore/AECOM, Bronx, USA T.R. Nelson, University of California, San Diego, USA A. Nowicki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland W.L. Nyborg, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA J. Ophir, University of Texas, Houston, USA K.J. Parker, University of Rochester, USA L. Pourcelot, Universit¨¨ de Tours, France J. Powers, Advanced Technology Laboratories, Bothell, USA J.M. Reid, Issaquah, Washington, USA R.S. Reneman, University of Limburg, The Netherlands G.-M. von Reutern, Neurologische Klinik, Bad Salzhausen, Germany D.E. Robinson, Coomba Park, NSW, Australia K.K. Shung, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA D.E. Strandness, University of Washington, Seattle, USA K.J.W. Taylor, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA J.M. Thijssen, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands P. Tortoli, University of Florence, Italy K. Vairojanavong, Rajavithi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand H. Watanabe, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan A.R. Williams, Swansea, Wales, UK J.W. Wladimiroff, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands J.P. Woodcock, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK Z.-Z. Xu, Shanghai Medical University, People's Republic of China M.C. Ziskin, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA W.J. Zwiebel, VA Medical Center, Salt Lake City, USA