Partner 8: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)
The UC3M group involved in this project is the Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Group (BiiG) as a part of the Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace engineering.
Partner Info:
The Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) is a public university founded in 1989. UC3M has strived, since its foundation, to make research one of the fundamental pillars of its activity, both for the enhancement of its teaching and for the new knowledge and new areas of research. UC3M, as university, has a national reputation for its research efficiency. It holds second place in participation in the EU Framework Programme (standardized data by number of permanent researchers) and second in average number of publications per permanent researcher in the period 2002-2006 (Web of Science). Recently (Report 2009 of CNEAI-National Commission for Evaluation of Research Activity), UC3M has reached the top of the Spanish universities in research activity.The Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Group (BiiG) is part of the Departmento de Bioingeniería e Ingeniería Aeroespacial, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). BiiG is a leading research group in the area of bioengineering, in particular with regard to medical imaging techniques and applications. The group conducts research activities is areas like new imaging technologies, image processing and analysis methodologies, image tomographic reconstruction, their practical applications in biomedicine, and biomedical instrumentation.
The research lines also include: Technology development for small-animal imaging, Cardiac imaging and quantification, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuroimage, Multimodality imaging, Equipment design. BiiG has presently more than 1000 m2 including offices, electronics and mechanic workshop, laboratoryoperating room for small-animal molecular imaging, and a fully-equipped magnetic resonance imaging suite. The BiiG group collaborates with other UC3M departments such as Electronics, Mathematics, Physics, etc. Moreover, the University established consortia with several Hospitals in the Comunidad de Madrid that allow sharing human resources and infrastructures, such as laboratories, animal housing facilities, operating rooms, laboratory for molecular biology, analysis equipment, etc.All these resources constitute one of the more complete settings at a national scale, which is also available to external researchers by providing support and consulting for their research. BiiG has approximately 40 researchers, to which we have to add the participation of professionals from other departments of the Hospital and the University.
Main tasks attributed and previous experience
BiiG participation in this proposal involves the design and development of single and dual-energy XCT and the crossvalidation of the FMT-XCT performance with PET-XCT. BIIG is a European leader in the development of hybrid, multimodal systems and is ideally suited for these tasks. BIIG has been pioneered and commercially ranslated hybrid PETXCT imaging systems and is overall focused on research into medical imaging technology. In addition, it has strong expertise in the application of such devices and methods in biological experiments.
BIIG consists of a highly multidisciplinary team and further closely collaborates with clinicians and healthcare professionals to address various research and healthcare needs. The methods for multimodal image integration and analysis developed by the BIIG are currently applied in functional image interpretation, neurosurgery, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, and microscopy. These applications require advanced software for image fusion and quantification, and some have been integrated into commercial products.
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