MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

http://www.iop.org/Journals/S/UNREG/mt

Subject coverage. The theory, practice and application of measurement in physics, chemistry, engineering and the environmental and life sciences from inception to commercial exploitation. Its scope includes

• practical sensors, instruments and systems for physical, chemical and biological measurands
• signal processing techniques for measurement systems
• metrology and the theory of measurement, including data and error analysis, standards and calibration.

The full range of transduction principles and measurement techniques are covered, including

• methods based on optics or other electromagnetic radiation
• electrical and magnetic measurements
• acoustics and ultrasonics
• spectroscopy, including mass spectroscopy, NMR and ESR
• nuclear measurements
• imaging techniques, including tomography, microscopy and holography.