Research

The research is based on the understanding that the most important challenge for the future healthcare is how to exploit the great achievements in medical research in order to improve patient treatment and outcome while containing costs. Medical imaging is central to meeting this challenge, and new technology for improved cost efficacy should be a main focus for imaging research and industrial innovation.
Innovation in medical imaging can contribute to improved cost-efficiency on several levels, and MI Lab has chosen to focus on three important areas:

• high quality medical imaging products and applications for non-expert users at the initial point of care • less complications and more rapid patient rehabilitation with image-guided minimally invasive surgery • more rapid and more precise choice of efficient treatment through decision-making based on advanced medical imaging. As Trondheim has a long history of basic ultrasound technology research with successful industrial spin-offs, this is a fourth main area.

 Inside this framework, MI Lab has the following project structure:

Research Task 1: Ultrasound technology
• Ultrasound image improvement
Research Task 2: Advanced imaging applications for non-expert user
• Cardiac ultrasound
• Pocket-sized ultrasound
Research Task 3: Image guided minimally invasive surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Cardiac & Vascular surgery
Research Task 4: Imaging based information to support medical decision making
• Advanced MR methods in clinical diagnosis
• Foetal ultrasound
• MR in regenerative medicine & Nanoparticles for imaging.

Research facilities

State-of-the-art