New PhD on "The possibilities of reducing radiation dose and improve image quality in CT diagnostics using advanced image processing"
On December 20 2011 Cand.scient. Anne Catrine Trægde Martinsen from The Intervention Centre defended her PhD thesis at Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. The trial lecture was held on the 19th with the topic: Can reduced radiation doses in CT scans by use of advanced image processing improve health benefit? On the image from left: Dr Per Kristian Hol, Oslo University Hospital, professor Per Hjalmar Nakstad, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Dr Gaute Hagen, Oslo University Hospital, Anne Catrine Trægde Martinsen, PhD, Docent Anders Tingberg, Skånes University Hospital Malmø, Sweden, Dr Ellen Schlichting, Oslo University Hospital
New PhD on "Intraorgan monitoring for detection of ischemia and rejection"
On December 7th 2011 Lars Wælgaard, MD defended his thesis on Intraorgan monitoring for detection of ischemia and rejection. Lars Wælgaard's work originates from The Acute Clinic, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, and The Intervention Centre, and Institute of Clinical Medicine at University of Oslo.On the image from left: 2. opponent: Professor Petter Aadahl, Institutt for sirkulasjon og bildediagnostikk, NTNU, Trondheim,1. opponent: Professor Bo-Göran Ericzon, Transplationskirurgiska kliniken, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Huddinge, Stockholm, mentor professor Tor Inge Tønnessen, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and to the right Lars Wælgaard.
Best presentation award to Dr. Raul Chavez-Santiago
At the COST-TERRA workshop on Nov. 15-17, 2011, Dr. Raul Chavez-Santiago received the best presentation award for his work on "Cognitive radio for wireless area networks in hospital environments". Congratulations to Raul!
Wireless transmission of a full HD video from an in-body transmitter to a on-body receiver
On October 13 2011, the researchers from the Oslo University Hospital, Norway and the National Institute of ICT (NICT), Japan demonstrated that a full HD video transmission from a in-body transmitter to a on-body receiver using the ultra wideband (UWB) technology. The demonstration is part of the research in the Melody Project on the design and development of the next generation SmartPill system.
The video shows the experiment performed in an experimental model at the Oslo Univeristy Hospital. News articles can be found at the Research Council of Norway and the State Television NRK. The articles are in Norwegian. More information in English can be found at the Research Council of Norway.
The 3rd Norwegian PhD Conference in Medical Imaging
The 3rd Norwegian PhD Conference in Medical Imaging, jointly organized by MedIm - Norwegian Research School in Medical Imaging and the Intervention Centre (Oslo University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo), will take place in Oslo, 21-22 November 2011. The conference headline is “Good science –better healthcare?”, and will focus on:
Hot topics within advanced medical imaging
- Contrast enhanced ultrasound
- Organ perfusion; hot topics from different modalities
- PET-MR and PET-CT: What is the future?
- Coronary imaging
Research methodology
- How to succeed with scientific applications
- Human performance
- Panel debate: “Good Science –Better healthcare?
–how are the universities prepared to meet this challenge”
- Presentations of scientific research in different Norwegian research groups within medical imaging
- Presentations of PhD projects (posters and oral presentations)
Walk through video of The Intervention Centre
A video showing the operating room (OR) area of The Interventional Centre is available from ivs.no/about-us/. In the video a walk is made through the hybrid operating rooms during an ordinary work day. The rooms that are presented is a combined surgical and angiographic suite, a laparoscopic suite and a MRI with an adjacent OR for intra operative imaging. Finally the High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) device embedded in the MRI table is shown.
Norway-Japan collaboration on smart sensors and wireless technologies for medical and healthcare applications
The Oslo University Hospital (OUS) of Norway and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan have joined forces to work closely to develop novel medical and healthcare technologies. The ongoing collaboration has been initiated by the Wireless Network Research Institute of NICT and the Intervention Center of OUS as part of the MELODY project, a large scale ICT research project funded by the VERDIKT program, the Research Council of Norway.
The memorandum of understanding, which was signed by Head of Section for Research Administration, Dr. Gogstad on behalf of OUS and General Director, Dr. Kadowaki on behalf of NICT, will strengthen and formalize the ongoing collaboration and will provide support for new joint initiatives based on the principle of equal rights and mutual benefits for both parties for next three years.
The signature ceremony took place at the NICT’s Yokosuka facility in Yokosuka, Kanagawa on June 16 and was attended by Professor Balasingham and Dr. Chavez-Santiago of OUS, Dr. Lund of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo, and Dr. Kadowaki, Dr. Koyama, Mr. Minami, Dr. Miura, and Dr. Li of NICT.
The Intervention Centre partner in EviCare innovation and research program
EviCare is a Norwegian innovation and research program. The aim of the program is to develop valid tools, and to produce high-quality research, within the field of clinical decision support.
The main objective of this project is to develop methods and technology for providing “Evidence-Based Medicine” (EBM) at the point of care, integrated with an electronic health record (EHR) or other health information systems directly involved in the clinical process, resulting in higher quality of care and a more detailed, transparent documentation of care processes.
Funding from The Research Council of Norway
The Intervention Centre has in collaboration with Institute for Informatics at University of Oslo and Institute for Innovation and Economic Organization (-at Norwegian Business School) as one of two projects received funding from The Research Council of Norway's VERDIKT program. The Research Council of Norway has established this new program to stimulate innovation in the governmental sector. In the research project "From local breakthrough in knowledge to integration in medical practice" led by professor Erik Fosse, researchers from OUS, Intsitute for Informatics at University of Oslo and Institute for Innovation and Economic Organization at Norwegian Business School will investigate how to best facilitate implementation of high-tech medical procedures in Norwegian hospitals. The focus will be on a new mode of treatment (Trans Aortic Valve Implant-TAVI) in patients with severe heart disease. This type of treatment is characterised by new combinations of several concurrent technologies, and extensive cross-disciplinary collaboration. The approach developed in this projectis to be used in other and similar high-tech medical procedures in the future. More information about the project will follow shortly.
New PhD on "Intra-Operative Non-Rigid Registration of Brain Images"
On May 31st 2011 Petter Risholm defended his thesis “Intra-Operative Non-Rigid Registration of Brain Images” at Institute of Informatics at University of Oslo. The research is linked to University of Oslo's Centre of Mathematics for Applications, Department of Informatics and The Intervention Centre at Faculty of Medicine, and the Surgical Planning Lab, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.
The dissertation presents mathematical methods designed to align (register) medical brain images with complementary information to increase and enhance the available intra-operative information on which surgeons make clinical decisions during neurosurgeries. A typical example is to maximize tumor removal, while at the same time preserve eloquent areas of the brain such as sight or motoric centers.
In the image Dr. Petter Risholm is flanked by Dr. Ole Jakob Elle (left)
from The Intervention Centre and Dr. Eigil Samset, one of Risholm's
mentors.
Commercial exit in EPR project
For nearly ten years a project to facilitate patient record (EPR) access and improve lay persons understanding by automated explanation of medical terms has been running at the Intervention Centre. In 2009/10 the project with the working title the "Thesaurus Project" received funding from Innomed, a national competency network for user driven innovation in the health care sector. The Thesaurus application browser client application receives EPR text from DocuLive and maps medical terms with a set of dictionaries. One is "The Patient Handbook" from NHI, one is Medical Dictionary from Kunnskapsforlaget-both Norwegian Publishing companies. The third dictionary was made by clinical specialists at Oslo University Hospital. With help from the TTO Inven2 the application has now been sold to Kunnskapsforlaget, and will be prepared for further commercialization in the near futurre.
New PhD at The Intervention Centre on new methods in coronary surgery
On February 7th 2011 dr Jacob Bergsland defended his doctoral thesis "Safe introduction and quality control of new methods in cardiac surgery" at Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. First opponent was Professor of Surgery Dimitri Novitzky, University of South Florida, USA, second opponent Professor Dag Sørlie, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø, and committe leader was Professor Knut Kvernebo, Heart-, Lung- and Vascular Clinic, Institute for Clinical Medicine, Universitety of Oslo. Bypass operation on the coronary arteries of the heart is the most common type of cardiac surgery, and is performed on 1000 per million inhabitants in Norway and other western countries. The operations has given good results, and is typically performed with use of heart and lung macine and arrested heart. The cardiac surgeon Jacob Bergsland at The Intervention Centre, Oslo University Hospital has studied coronary artery surgery performed on beating heart without heart and lung machine. Studies were made in USA where dr. Bergsland formerly worked, and at The Intervention Centre in Oslo. The studies from USA were the first to compare beating heart surgery with traditional methode by use of data from registries. Bergsland's studies showed that beating heart surgery could reduce complication rates, especially in high risk patients. (Photo:Hans H. Reinertsen)
Symposium for professor Erik Fosse
On December 2nd professor Erik Fosse, the leader of The Intervention Centre was 60 years and the event was celebrated with a symposium covering highlights of his professional career. Erik Fosse has had an exceptional diversity in professional interests which was reflected in the lectures given by cross diciplinary colleagues he has collaborated with over the last four decades. He is a researcher with 158 papers indexed in PubMed, but also has come up with a number of patents. As the leader of The Intervention Centre he has shown his talent not only as an innovative clinichian, supporting collegue but also as a strategic leader that now can harvest from the success of the Centre. He has over the years built a wide national and international network based on the credibility and wide recognition of his professional acievements and open minded personality. The image shows OUS CEO Siri Hatlen handing over flowers to professor Fosse during the Symposium. The Syposium program is available here.
New PhD at The Intervention Centre on "Continuous monitoring of left ventrucular function by epicardial 3-axis accelerometers"
On December 1st 2010 anesthesiologist Steinar Halvorsen from The Intervention Centre defended his PhD thesis on the topic Continuous monitoring of left ventricular function by epicardial accelerometers. In the trial lecture the same day, Steinar Halvorsen presented "The importance of the Swan Ganz catheter in hemodynamic monitoring" in an excellent manner. The research presented in the thesis was based on a novel method for monitoring of heart function during cardiac surgery. The method detects reduced blood supply to the heart much earlier than conventional methods, and is based on measurements of heart wall movements with an acceleration sensor. In a final application the sensor will be miniturized and embedded in a temporary pacemaker lead routinely attached to the heart surface after cardiac surgery in the immediate post-operative phase.
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