Project description
Integration of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging in medical applications
Imaging technology plays a central role in modern healthcare, providing advanced techniques such as magnetic resonance (MR), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging (MRSI) and positron emission tomography (PET). The development of multi-parametric MR and hybrid imaging, combining the non-invasive metabolic information of MRS or MRSI with the high sensitivity of PET, is crucial for the improvement of diagnosis and disease monitoring. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the INSPiRE-MED project will create a research training network of academic and industrial partners aimed at training early stage researchers in the field of medical imaging, including MRS and MRSI as well as their combination with MR imaging and PET.
Objective
INSPiRE-MED will provide research and training to 15 early career researchers in the field of medical imaging, specifically Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI), combined with MR Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). INSPiRE-MED Fellows will acquire skills to develop careers contributing to innovative technological advances in medical imaging in a multi-disciplinary environment encompassing physics, mathematical and computer sciences leading to applications in medicine and biological sciences. The 12 academic and 9 industrial partners will provide the Fellows with transferable and generic skills as well as a comprehensive, wide-ranging education on the basic principles of medical imaging and image analysis. This fundamental knowledge will be combined with in-depth learning in a specific area, through local delivery via graduate schools, programme-wide INSPiRE-MED training activities and workshops and personal academic supervision by two INSPiRE-MED supervisors. This will enable them to successfully participate in developing new tools for clinicians.
MRS is a unique, non-invasive molecular technique that has proved useful for diagnosis and therapy management in disease models and patients. Despite its potential, the clinical uptake of MRS has lagged behind that of MRI and PET. Thus, INSPiRE-MED will have 3 objectives, encapsulated in 3 research Work Packages (WP):
1) Development of novel acquisition and processing techniques allowing MRS(I) to become a key tool in medical imaging (WP1); 2) Integration of innovative MRS(I) techniques in several key clinical and pre-clinical applications including a multimodal metabolic approach based on MR/PET (WP2); 3) Translation of most advanced research in MRS(I) and machine learning into clinical routine by means of a fully automatic software suite, building on the well-known jMRUI package (http://www.jmrui.eu) to provide a prime tool in personalized medicine (WP 3).
Fields of science
- natural sciencesbiological sciences
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespersonalized medicine
- engineering and technologymedical engineeringdiagnostic imaging
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopy
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69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
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1015 Lausanne
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3012 Bern
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3000 Leuven
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80539 Munchen
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M13 9PL Manchester
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6525 XZ Nijmegen
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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28029 Madrid
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61264 BRNO
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3012 Leuven
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5301 KR Zaltbommel
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3584 CX Utrecht
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6525 GA Nijmegen
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04109 Leipzig
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69677 Bron Cedex
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3010 Bern
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7491 Trondheim
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69530 Brignais
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76275 Ettlingen
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60313 Frankfurt Am Main
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5684 PC Best
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91052 Erlangen
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