[PRE REVIEW]: SlicerSPECTRecon: A 3D Slicer Extension for SPECT Image Reconstruction

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Submitting author: @ObedDzik (Obed Dzikunu)
Repository: https://github.com/PyTomography/slicer_spect_recon.git
Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): j_paper
Version: v1.0.0
Editor: @mstimberg
Reviewers: @zapaishchykova, @cnmy-ro
Managing EiC: Kevin M. Moerman

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Commit count by author:

    83	Obed Dzikunu
    13	Luke Polson
     2	Carlos F. Uribe
     1	pearsomark

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1070

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.1109/42.363108 is OK
- 10.1109/42.52985 is OK
- 10.1016/0169-2607(89)90111-9 is OK
- 10.1109/TNS.2002.998681 is OK
- 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354345 is OK
- 10.1088/1361-6560/aa6911 is OK
- 10.1097/MNM.0000000000001675 is OK
- 10.1088/1361-6560/aadac1 is OK
- 10.1109/TMI.2003.812251 is OK
- 10.1007/978-1-4614-7657-3_19 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2309.01977 is OK
- 10.1109/NSS/MIC42677.2020.9507966 is OK
- 10.21037/atm-20-5988 is OK

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❌ MISSING DOIs

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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Correction made to ORCID.

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[ObedDzik]

Potential reviewers:

1. Andras Lasso (https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=vEXNR7sAAAAJ&hl=en)
2. Adam Alessio (https://iq.msu.edu/adam-alessio/)
3. Fotis Kotasidis (GE Healthcare, https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=MGvlB9cAAAAJ&hl=en)
4. Margaret Daube-Witherspoon (https://www.pennmedicine.org/departments-and-centers/department-of-radiology/radiology-research/labs-and-centers/quantitative/physics-and-instrumentation-group)
5. Joyita Dutta (https://www.bidslab.org/)
6. C. Ross Schmidtlein (https://www.mskcc.org/profile/charles-schmidtlein)

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@ObedDzik Dear author, thanks for this submission. I am the AEiC on this track and here to help process the initial steps. Since all editors in this domain are currently busy handling other submission, I've just waitlisted this submission. I aim to assign an editor as soon as possible.

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@samhforbes you are currently handling a large amount of other submissions. I was wondering, is this submission something you could help edit once you are available?

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@editorialbot invite @mstimberg as editor

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Invitation to edit this submission sent!

[ObedDzik]

@Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman thanks for the update.

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@mstimberg 👋

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@editorialbot assign me as editor

@Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman apologies for the late reply, happy to edit this submission 😊

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Assigned! @mstimberg is now the editor

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@mstimberg that is great thanks!

[mstimberg]

👋 @ObedDzik I will be the editor for your submission, looking forward to working with you.
The first step is to look for reviewers. I will do this mostly over email, so don't be surprised if you won't see much activity here. If you have any suggestions for potential reviewers, then please mention them here in this thread (without tagging them with an @). You can search the list of people that have already agreed to review and may be suitable for this submission.

[ObedDzik]

@mstimberg Great! We suggest Marek Oerlemans, Thomas Else, Jonathan Bach Martin, and Ibrahim Hadzic.

[lukepolson]

@mstimberg thanks for coordinating this! Is there any updates on the review process?

[mstimberg]

@lukepolson Unfortunately, finding reviewers has been more difficult than I hoped (I have a couple of replies pending, and two potential reviewers have declined). On the good side, I've just found a first reviewer who agreed, and I will add them to this issue right away.

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@editorialbot add @zapaishchykova as reviewer

Many thanks again for helping us out!

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@zapaishchykova added to the reviewers list!

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@editorialbot add @cnmy-ro as reviewer

Welcome aboard!

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@cnmy-ro added to the reviewers list!

[mstimberg]

I am still waiting for a reply from a potential reviewer, but we can still add them later to the process. I will now start the review, which will close this issue and open a new one. See you on the other side!

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@editorialbot start review

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OK, I've started the review over in #7399.