Citations Prize 2016

Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB) awards its Citations Prize to the authors of the original research paper that has received the most citations in the preceding five years (according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)). The lead author of the winning paper is presented with the Rotblat Medal (named in honour of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat, a Nobel Prize winner who also was the second—and longest serving—Editor-in-Chief of PMB, from 1961–1972).

The winner of the 2016 Citations Prize for the paper which has received the most citations in the previous five years (2011–2015) is

Physical and clinical performance of the mCT time-of-flight PET/CT scanner

B W Jakoby^1,2,3, Y Bercier³, M Conti³, M E Casey³, B Bendriem³ and D W Townsend^2,4

¹ Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

² University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA

³ Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Knoxville, TN, USA

⁴ Singapore Bioimaging Consortium and National University, Singapore

Reference: Jakoby B W et al 2011 Phys. Med. Biol. 56 2375

Our warm congratulations go to the winning authors.