DEPARTMENT BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND SENSING
The Biomedical Imaging and Sensing (BIS) Department develops innovative techniques to enhance our understanding of health and disease. Our goal is to improve prevention, diagnostics, treatment, and monitoring of disease through advanced biomarkers and support tools.
WHAT WE DO
Motivated by clinical needs, we develop highly innovative techniques to enable the discovery and application of quantitative imaging/sensing biomarkers, as well as support tools to advance our understanding of health and disease, and contribute to improved prevention, diagnostics, treatment, and monitoring of disease.
We cover a wide spectrum of research activities, from pioneering the development of novel technologies and methodologies to their practical implementation across diverse settings. Our approaches are distributed along the continuum of clinical needs (market pull) and technological creativity (technology push). The department has researchers working at various phases of maturity and scale, from fundamental studies to first-in-human studies, and beyond to clinical trials. At lower TRLs (Technology Readiness Levels), research includes digital, physiological, and physical twins of tissues, organs and patients, setting the stage for advanced monitoring and support devices. At higher TRLs the research is performed on cells or organ-on-a-chip platforms, depending on the envisioned end-use, and also in humans.
Our research includes methods and techniques related to electrophysiology and electroencephalography, and the imaging modalities of ultrasound, x-ray, optical, photoacoustic, magnetic, and nuclear imaging. Artificial intelligence and computational, physical and hybrid modeling of clinically relevant human physiology pervade many aspects of our research. Our health focus areas are cancer, neurophysiology, diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, hematology, women’s health, and organ support.
FACILITIES
The BIS department is fully integrated in the TechMed Centre and the TechMed infrastructure is a key element for successful development and organization of our research, including valorization. This ranges from support in teaming up with clinicians and companies, to preparing research proposals and working according to regulatory guidelines and rules. Importantly, our unique facilities form an excellent platform for consolidation and extension of existing and new cooperation with MedTech companies for validation and pre-clinical testing of innovative products in the scope of our research and clinical interest. Facilities include:
- The BioImaging Centre, incl. 3D image analysisNeurophysiology lab and Animal Research Facility
- Optical lab and lasers (supercontinuum; femtosecond; ns-lasers)
- Ultrasound Labs
- Lab for Magnetic Detection and MRI-scanners (1.5T clinical MRI scanner with full research access; upright MRI scanner for more fundamental clinical studies; tabletop MRI scanner for ex vivo scanning
- Medical Physiology Lab - Hybrid Cardiovascular and Respiratory Simulation
- Simulation & Training Centre