The International Journal for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS) is a peer-reviewed journal to provide a platform closing the gap between medical and technical disciplines and to encourage interdisciplinary research and development activities in an international environment.
The focus of the journal is on R&D areas relating to digital imaging methods and computer-assisted diagnostic and therapeutic workflows that match and enhance the skill levels of health care professionals.
IJCARS invites submissions on topics in information sciences, ICT, and mechatronic systems design as well as clinical application fields such as:
Medical imaging, e.g. CT, MR, US, SPECT, PET, DR, molecular imaging, and virtual endoscopy
Image processing and display
3D, 4D, and 5D imaging
Hospital-wide PACS and telemedicine
Computer applications for e.g. neurosurgery, head and neck, orthopaedics, ear nose and throat, cardiovascular and thoracoabdominal surgery, and plastic/reconstructive surgery
Image-guided therapy
Surgical robotics and instrumentation
Surgical navigation
3D modeling and rapid prototyping
Postoperative result assessment
Surgical education and training
Haptics and multimodal devices in medical applications
Methods of validation and verification
CAD for breast, prostate, chest, colon, skeletal, liver, brain, and vascular imaging
Cranial and maxillofacial image-guided surgery
Surgical workflow
Surgical DICOM and IHE
Digital operating room
IJCARS will present results from these fields in original papers, review articles, short communications and commentaries.
To increase the value of health care for the general populace, one focus of IJCARS is on providing information on new diagnostic and therapeutic processes which are facilitated by CARS. This includes providers' experiences, patient outcomes, economic and ethical considerations, and scientific/medical validation results. It is expected that the resulting awareness by users and providers will accelerate the acceptance of CARS-supported procedures in clinical practice.

Editor-in-Chief
H.U. Lemke, Berlin, Germany

Managing Editor (Editorial Office)
Franziska Schweikert, Küssaberg, Germany
Deputy Editors
Leonard Berliner, MD
New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
Davide Caramella, MD
University of Pisa (I)
Kevin Cleary, PhD
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC (USA)
Andreas Dietz, MD
University Hospital Leipzig (D) 

Randy E. Ellis, PhD
Kingston, Ontario (CDN)
Volkmar Falk, MD
German Heart Institute Berlin (D)
Allan G. Farman, PhD, DSc
Chicago, IL (USA)
Hubertus Feussner, MD
Klinikum rechts der Isar of TUM, Munich (D)
Gabor Fichtinger, PhD
Queen's University, Kingston, ON (CDN)
Bernard Gibaud, PhD
University of Rennes (F)
Lixu Gu, PhD
Shanghai Jiaotong University (CHN)
Makoto Hashizume, MD, PhD, FACS
Kyushu University, Fukuoka (J)
Pierre Jannin, PhD
University of Rennes (F)
Leo Joskowicz, PhD
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL) 

Brent J. Liu
University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
Kensaku Mori, PhD
Nagoya University (J)
Nassir Navab, PhD
Technical University Munich, Garching (D) 

Jasper Nijkamp, PhD
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam (NL) 

Terry M. Peters, PhD
Robarts Research Institute, London, ON (CDN)
Osman M. Ratib, MD, PhD
University Hospital of Geneva (CH)
Achim Schweikard, PhD
University of Lubeck (D)
Ramin Shahidi, PhD
Stanford University Medical Center (USA) 

Stefanie Speidel, PhD
NCT, University of Dresden (D) 

Danail Stoyanov, PhD
University College London (UK)
Russell H. Taylor, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA)
Stefan Weber, PhD
University of Berne (CH)
Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)
Editorial Board

Christos Angelopoulos, U.S.A.
Dirk Beyersdorff, Germany
Silvio Diego Bianchi, Italy
Ulrich Bick, Germany
Marco Caversaccio, Switzerland
Xiaojun Chen , P.R. of China
Elena De Momi, Italy
Stefano Diciotti, Italy
Kunio Doi, U.S.A.
Rudolf Fahlbusch, Germany
Nils Daniel Forkert, Canada
Matthew T. Freedman, U.S.A.
Moti Freiman, U.S.A.
Wolfgang Freysinger, Austria
Tamás Haidegger, Hungary
Stefan Haßfeld, Germany
Yoshihiko Hayakawa, Japan
Kenneth R. Hoffmann, U.S.A.
Alexander Horsch, Germany
Branislav Jaramaz, U.S.A.
Shantanu H. Joshi, U.S.A.
Ron Kikinis, U.S.A.
Taichi Kin, Japan
Cornelia Kober, Germany
Pablo Lamata de la Orden, Spain
J. Thomas Lambrecht, Switzerland
Qingi Li, P.R. of China
Anderson Maciel, Brazil
Jacques Marescaux, France
Hans-Peter Meinzer, Germany
Jürgen Meixensberger, Germany
Filippo Molinari, Italy
Parvin Mousavi, Canada
Thomas Neumuth, Germany
Wiro J. Niessen, The Netherlands
Wieslaw L. Nowinski, Singapore
Yoshito Otake, Japan
Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Germany
Andrea Pietrabissa, Italy
Andreas Pommert, Germany
Klaus Radermacher, Germany
Christian Raftopoulos, Belgium
Daniel Ruijters, The Netherlands
Ichiro Sakuma, Japan
Warren S. Sandberg, U.S.A.
Yoshinobu Sato, Japan
Jörg Schipper, Germany
Rainer Schubert, Austria
Steffen Schumann, Switzerland
Reuben R. Shamir, U.S.A.
Akinobu Shimizu, Japan
Ulrich Stöckle, Germany
Geert J. Streekstra, The Netherlands
Nobuhiko Sugano, Japan
Shin-ichi Tamura, Japan
Thorsten Tjardes, Germany
Andrew E. Todd-Pokropek, United Kingdom
Klaus D. Toennies, Germany
Junichi Tokuda, U.S.A.
Tamas Ungi, Canada
Theo van Walsum, The Netherlands
Andreas Wahle, U.S.A.
Gerlig Widmann, Austria
Ziv Yaniv, U.S.A.
Guoyan Zheng, Switzerland