Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Group
- Grupos de investigación
- Engineering
- Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Group
- Group head:
- Mónica Abella García
- Email:
- mabella@ing.uc3m.es
- Group web:
- Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Group (BiiG)
Description
The research of the Medical Imaging and Instrumentation Group (Biig) of the Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering Dept. of the UC3M is mainly focused on medical imaging, including the development of new technologies, advanced reconstruction and postprocessing algorithms, and their practical application in the fields of CT, Nuclear Imaging, MRI and Optical Tomography. The strong mutidisciplinary character of the group makes it easier a close connection with real clinical and preclinical needs. Collaborations with Hospitals and biomedical research centers facilitate a fast validation of the results achieved, also enabling a fast transfer of results to the industry. Several devices developed have reached a world-wide commercialization.
The group has lead and is leading several excellence collaboration networks in Spain, such as the ‘Molecular and Multimodality Imaging Network’ or the ‘Hospital Technological Innovation Network’, as well as several Industry-Academia large consortia for technology transfer.
The available equipment for molecular imaging (CT, PET, SPECT, CT-PET, MRI, optical fluorescence tomography) constitutes one of the more complete settings at a national scale
Lines of research
- Technological development in X-ray imaging: development of all stages of X-ray image formation, from data acquisition to image quantification, including calibration, image pre- and post-processing, and tomographic reconstruction.
- Advanced biomedical image processing: advanced processing techniques, including artificial intelligence, applied to microscopy, radiology, or video imaging for enhancement, segmentation, classification, or quantification, with a special focus on solutions with clinical or life sciences applications.
- Technological development in optical imaging and biological applications: optical design, reconstruction, and quantification methods for optical imaging systems, both macro- and microscopic (fluorescence optical tomography, light-sheet microscopy, confocal microscopy).
- Applications of SPIM microscopy and ultramicroscopy for fast, high-resolution imaging of three-dimensional specimens.
- Preclinical research: biomedical research lines, either in-house or through external collaborations, using molecular imaging equipment (MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, and optical).
Main areas: Neuroimaging, Oncology, Cardiac imaging, and Infection and Inflammation.
- Neuroimaging: development and clinical application of multimodal MRI neuroimaging processing techniques, including structural, spectroscopic, diffusion, and functional imaging for the study of the normal and pathological brain and their evaluation as specific imaging agents in medical applications.
- Molecular probes: synthesis of new molecular probes (radiotracers and nanoparticles)and their evaluation as specific imaging agents in medical applications.
Contact email: research@uc3m.es