Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging publishes reports on clinical and experimental research pertinent to human physiology in health and disease. The Journal has a very broad scope, covering all aspects of the regulatory system in the cardiovascular, renal, and pulmonary systems, focusing on work that has potential clinical relevance.

Articles

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Effects of consciously controlled slow breathing on cardiac parasympathetic nervous activity postexercise in young healthy males

Tatsuya Sugimoto, Kazuya Sugiyama, Kumi Matsumura, Kana Michiue, Kumiko Ono, Akira Ishikawa, 
  •  13 March 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Minimum detectable change estimates of heart‐to‐finger arterial pulse wave conduction time in cardiovascular‐healthy young adults

Harvey N. Mayrovitz, 
  •  4 March 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Diaphragm thickness and physical performance in regular smokers and non‐smokers: A pilot study

Bahar Özgül, Zübeyir Sarı, İlkşan Demirbüken, Hilal Başak Can, Zana Gezer, Halil Yıldırım, Mine Gülden Polat, 
  •  4 March 2025
SHORT COMMUNICATION

SVAT–sonographic thickness ratio of visceral adipose tissue to anterior thigh muscle: a novel approach for body composition analysis

Murat Kara, Ahmad J. Abdulsalam, Vincenzo Ricci, Levent Özçakar, 
  •  2 March 2025
SHORT COMMUNICATION
Open access

Pulmonary blood volume as a marker of adenosine‐induced cardiac hyperemia: A Rubidium‐82 study

Martin Lyngby Lassen, Jacob Peter Hartmann, Christina Byrne, Ronan M. G. Berg, Andreas Kjær, Philip Hasbak, 
  •  26 February 2025
More articles

The following is a list of the most read articles in 2018.

Open access

Tilt table testing, methodology and practical insights for the clinic

Steven van Zanten, Richard Sutton, Viktor Hamrefors, Artur Fedorowski, Frederik J. de Lange, 
  •  119-130
  •  15 October 2023
Open access

Mucociliary clearance: pathophysiological aspects

Mathias Munkholm, Jann Mortensen, 
  •  171-177
  •  30 September 2013
Open access

Influence of physical post‐exercise recovery techniques on vagally‐mediated heart rate variability: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Sylvain Laborde, Jannik Wanders, Emma Mosley, Florian Javelle, 
  •  14-35
  •  27 September 2023
Open access

Is musculoskeletal pain associated with increased muscle stiffness? Evidence map and critical appraisal of muscle measurements using shear wave elastography

Andreas Haueise, Guillaume Le Sant, Angelika Eisele-Metzger, Angela V. Dieterich, 
  •  187-204
  •  28 December 2023

Acute and training effects of resistance exercise on heart rate variability

J. Derek Kingsley, Arturo Figueroa, 
  •  179-187
  •  18 December 2014
More articles

The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.

Time domain, geometrical and frequency domain analysis of cardiac vagal outflow: effects of various respiratory patterns

Jani Penttilä, Antti Helminen, Tuomas Jartti, Tom Kuusela, Heikki V. Huikuri, Mikko P. Tulppo, René Coffeng, Harry Scheinin, 

Contemporary methods of body composition measurement

Marie Ø. Fosbøl, Bo Zerahn, 

Physiological and methodological aspects of rate of force development assessment in human skeletal muscle

David Rodríguez-Rosell, Fernando Pareja-Blanco, Per Aagaard, Juan José González-Badillo, 

Six-minute walk test: a tool for predicting maximal aerobic power (VO2 max) in healthy adults

Ari Mänttäri, Jaana Suni, Harri Sievänen, Pauliina Husu, Henri Vähä-Ypyä, Heli Valkeinen, Kari Tokola, Tommi Vasankari, 

Heart rate recovery: autonomic determinants, methods of assessment and association with mortality and cardiovascular diseases

Tiago Peçanha, Natan Daniel Silva-Júnior, Cláudia Lúcia de Moraes Forjaz, 

Recent issues

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging has partnered with Publons to recognize our reviewers for their peer review contributions. Publons allows reviewers to effortlessly track, verify, and showcase their peer review activity.

Latest news

More news >