Research

The department has a diverse research activity relating medicine and technology. Our research is organised through the following research groups: Ultrasound and MR, Exercise and extreme environments and Clinical research.

The Baromedicine and Environmental Physiology group is focusing on developing better methods and equipment to protect people against the changes caused by the environment, the effects of diving and decompression being one of the major activities. Through experimental and clinical studies, the main goal is to increase the knowledge of the mechanisms used by the organism to protect itself under these conditions.

Cardiac Exercise Research Group

The research focus of the Cardiac Exercise Research Group is to identify the key cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of physical exercise on heart, arteries, and skeletal muscle in the context of prevention and management of main public diseases through the combination of experimental, clinical and epidemiological studies.

Ultrasound
In medical ultrasound imaging sound waves are utilized to visualize soft body structures as organs, vessels and tendons in real time. Our department is one of few with a research spectrum spanning from technology development to clinical research. Additionally within this spectrum clinicians and engineers work together in interdisciplinary groups as in the field of cardiac imaging.

Exercise Physiology and Sport Sciences

The main research direction is the use of specific exercise training interventions to prevent and treat inactivity related diseases. The group’s research is in the forefront of development of a non-pharmaceutical prevention and treatment of inactivity related diseases that improves cardiac, vascular, muscular or neural capacities. The prescription of effective endurance and strength training and the different effects of these mechanisms on top sport performance is another aim for the research programme. Read more on the homepage of the group.

• MR cancer group
• Trondheim fMRI group
• Fuge Molecular Imaging Center

Clinical research