Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The content this journal is exclusively case reports that feature diagnostic imaging. Categories in which case reports can be placed include the musculoskeletal system, spine, central nervous system, head and neck, cardiovascular, chest, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, multisystem, pediatric, emergency, women's imaging, oncologic, normal variants, medical devices, foreign bodies, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, ultrasonography, imaging artifacts, forensic, anthropological, and medical-legal. Articles must be well-documented and include a review of the appropriate literature.

 

Section Policies

Editorials

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
  • Felix Chew, University of Washington
  • Michael Richardson, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Diagnostic Imaging

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
  • Felix Chew, University of Washington
  • Michael Richardson, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Musculoskeletal

Editors
  • Michael Richardson, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Chest

Editors
  • Pierre Maldjian, UMDNJ-Newark
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Iatrogenic Complications

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Gastrointestinal

Editors
  • Grace Phillips, Seattle Childrens Hospital
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Genitourinary

Editors
  • Grace Phillips, Seattle Childrens Hospital
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Ultrasonography

Editors
  • Manjiri Dighe, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Pediatrics

Editors
  • Grace Phillips, Seattle Childrens Hospital
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Breast Imaging

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
  • Michael Richardson, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Cardiovascular

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Nuclear Medicine

Editors
  • David Lewis
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Interventional

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
  • Anne Covey, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Bradley Pua, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Gynecological Imaging

Editors
  • Susanna Lee, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Nervous System

Editors
  • Roger Bartolotta, University of Washington
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Emergency Radiology

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Forensic and Anthropological

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Medical Devices

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Head and Neck

Editors
  • Roger Bartolotta, University of Washington
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Spine

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Foreign Bodies

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Oncology

Editors
  • Manjiri Dighe, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Normal Variants

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Multisystem Disease

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Molecular Imaging

Editors
  • David Lewis
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Women's Imaging

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Imaging Artifacts

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Geriatric

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Vascular

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Clinical Research Articles

Editors
  • Puneet Bhargava, University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
  • Felix Chew, University of Washington
  • Michael Richardson, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Medical-Legal

Editors
  • Theodore Dubinsky, University of Washington
  • Annemarie Relyea-Chew, University of Washington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All published manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least two qualified experts in the appropriate field and subspecialty. For each submitted manuscript, the peer reviewers are asked to judge the credibility, documentation, level of proof, quality of illustration, quality of writing, appropriateness and depth of literature review, and contribution to the field. Upon publication, registered readers may post ratings and comments about individual articles through a moderated forum process.

 

Publication Frequency

Radiology Case Reports will publish articles on a continuing basis as soon as they complete the peer review, revision, editing, and production process. Articles will be aggregated into quarterly issues and annual volumes.

 

Open Access Policy

Radiology Case Reports is an open access journal that welcomes anyone to view the full contents of the articles as soon as they are published. We do not charge subscription fees nor user access fees. Authors and institutions are encouraged to deposit the work published in this journal in institutional repositories and eprint archives.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief


Puneet Bhargava, MBBS, DNB
University of Washington & VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Seattle, WA

Editors


Felix S. Chew, MD, EdM, MBA
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Michael L. Richardson, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Associate Editors


Catherine C. Roberts, MD
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ

Board Members



Mark W. Anderson, MD
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Deborah A. Baumgarten, MD, MPH
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Johan G. Blickman, MD, PhD
UMC Nijmegan
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Ethan M. Braunstein, MD
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ

Mauricio Castillo, MD
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Vikram Dogra, MD
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Stephen J. Eustace, MD
National Orthopaedic Hospital
Dublin, Ireland

Brian S. Funaki, MD
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Brian S. Garra, MD
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT

Garry E. Gold, MD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Timothy B. Hunter, MD
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Ella A, Kazerooni, MD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Susanna I. Lee, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Angela D. Levy, MD, LTC, MC
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC

Donna Magid, MD, MEd
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Catherine Maldjian, MD
New York Medical College
Valhalla, NY

David M. Panicek, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Annemarie Relyea-Chew, JD, MS
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Catherine C. Roberts, MD
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ

James G. Smirniotopoulos, MD
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD

Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Gary J. Whitman, MD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

 

Informed Consent

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. In general, patient identifiers are unnecessary for case reports, and such identifiers should be omitted from manuscripts submitted to RCR. However, in the rare event that such information is essential for scientific purposes, the patient (or guardian) must give written informed consent for publication of this information. When such consent is given, this fact will be noted in the published article.

 

Conflict of Interest

Conflict of interest exists when authors, reviewers or editors have financial or personal relationships that may inappropriately bias their actions. We ask all authors, reviewers and editors to inform us of any proprietary or commercial interest or conflicts of interests the authors may have that are related directly or indirectly to the subject of an article.



Call For Papers

Radiology Case Reports began publication in January, 2006. We invite you to support the first peer-reviewed journal established specifically to publish case reports in radiology by submitting case report manuscripts for publication.

To submit a case for review, you will first need to register with the site as an author (there is no charge for this). When you log in as an author, you will be guided through the submission process.