The American Heart Association has announced the forthcoming launch of a new title - Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. The journal is the latest in a series of six new titles to be published under the banner of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Dr. Marcelo F. Di Carli, director of cardiovascular imaging and associate professor of medicine and radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, will serve as editor of the journal.
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, scheduled for launch in mid-July, will feature research articles in one of the fastest-growing areas of cardiovascular medicine. The journal will focus on new translational and clinical research on noninvasive imaging technologies, including echocardiography, radionuclide imagine, PET/CT, cardiovascular CT and MRI, molecular imaging and anatomic and functional vascular imaging. Timely review articles will include updates on current applications of cardiovascular imaging, new imaging technologies and their clinical roles, issues in imaging research, and translational aspects of molecularly targeted imaging research. Regular features will include series on advances and controversies in cardiovascular imaging, case reports, editorials and letters to the editor.
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging is the third of the new Circulation portfolio of journals, designed to meet the growing demand for tightly focused information in areas at the cutting edge of cardiology. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology and Circulation: Heart Failure premiered recently. The remaining three titles - Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics; Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes; and Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions - are slated for launch later in 2008.
Each issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging and the other new journals will be available in both print and online formats. The journal website, http://circimaging.ahajournals.org/, will launch when the first issue is posted in mid-July and will also present "Publish Ahead of Print" articles and other online features. American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Premium Professional members will have free, full-text access to journal articles through December 31, 2008. The first issue of each of the six new journals will be available to the public for free as sample issues.
