Editorial: Cardiovascular Physiology and Medical Assessments: Physics and Engineering Perspectives

Editorial: Perspectives in General Physiology

In this issue of The Journal of General Physiology we begin a new initiative: Perspectives in General Physiology. The purpose of these Perspectives is to provide a forum where scientific uncertainties or controversies can be discussed in an authoritative yet open manner. The Perspectives will be solicited by the editors—often based on recommendations by the advisory editors or members of the ed...

Editorial: Hybridizing Quantum Physics and Engineering.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of landmark experiments, reported in Physical Review Letters [1,2], that tested one of the most bewildering predictions of quantum mechanics: Information can exist nonlocally, so that retrieving it requires performing measurements on two distinct particles that are said to be entangled. This prediction had been troubling physicists for decades. The perplexit...

Editorial: Medical physics preparation and certification

September 30 of this year marks the last time that a medical physicist seeking certification by the American Board of Radiology may apply for the examination without having completed an accredited clinical training program. The apparent imbalance between individuals seeking such clinical training and the number of available positions in accredited clinical residency programs has been the subjec...

Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Editorial: engineering approaches to study cardiovascular physiology: modeling, estimation, and signal processing

With cardiovascular diseases being among the main causes of death in the world, quantitative modeling, assessment and monitoring of cardiovascular dynamics, and functioning play a critical role in bringing important breakthroughs to cardiovascular care. Quantification of cardiovascular physiology and its control mechanisms from physiological recordings, by use of mathematical models and algorit...