[Sneap] Call for papers-XRS special issue: Portable and handheld XRF instrumentation

[Maria Luisa de Carvalho]

Dear colleague,

As you well know X-Ray Spectrometry is a peer-reviewed journal that
every two months publishes high quality papers dealing with the theory
and application of X-ray spectrometry using x-ray photon, proton, gamma
and gamma-x sources. From time to time we devote an issue to special
topic such as archaeometry, health physics, etc. The role of special or
focused issue is to present the reader with broader view of the topic or
to mark the milestone achieved in development of XRF. Recently, it
became apparent that portable and handheld XRF instrumentation has
reached new technological level offering user the performance and
features until now available only on laboratory equipment. In order to
acknowledge this milestone we have decided to devote the special issue
of X-Ray Spectrometry to portable systems.

In this spirit we kindly invite you to contribute a paper to this
special issue of X-Ray Spectrometry. The topics covered should include
transportable and handheld x-ray based spectrometers: XRF, micro-XRF,
PIXE-alpha, combined analyses XRF and XRD, micro-XRF and microRaman,
etc. Development of innovative x-ray instrumentation (sources,
detectors, lenses) and software components implemented in handheld and
transportable spectrometers are also included. Methodological approaches
and applications of handheld and transportable x-ray based spectrometers
in investigations on environmental contamination, health
problems/toxicology, forensic sciences, ancient/historical
materials/monuments, artworks and in conservation science are highly
encouraged in the special issue.
Please submit your manuscript on X-ray Spectrometry journal website
until February 28th, 2009
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1870/home. All manuscripts
will undergo the normal peer review process of XRS, implying critical
evaluation by three independent referees.
Papers submitted after the deadline will not be considered.

Guest Editors:
Maria Luisa de Carvalho (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal)
Andreas-Germanos Karydas (Institute of Nuclear Physics, NCSR
"Demokritos", Athens, Greece)
Stan Piorek (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA)

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