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By cpbotha, March 30, 2010 12:52

Yesterday we received the very sad news that our friend and colleague Dr. Dirk Bartz unexpectedly passed away on Sunday. We wish his family much strength in these difficult times.

He will be sorely missed.

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By cpbotha, March 9, 2008 00:27

I’m currently at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2008, staffing the Medical Delta booth in the Imagine section (level 2 in the Austria Centre, close to rooms X and Y), together with a number of cool people from the Erasmus Medical Centre Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam and the Leiden University Medical Centre Image Processing Laboratory. If you’re reading this and you’re in the neighbourhood, pop by for a chat and of course some complimentary stroopwafels and drop!

Update:

I’m back at the TU in Delft and the ECR should be finising by this afternoon. Also see the blog summaries of Marion Smits by clicking here, here and here. Below is a photo Marion took of our Medical Delta booth:

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By cpbotha, May 27, 2007 12:05

Siemens has unveiled the world’s first MR-PET scanner prototype. With this imaging system, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) images can be acquired simultaneously. MRI supplies anatomical (structural) information as context, whilst PET yields functional data, for example on the precise location of tumours and their metastases. See the image below for an example (courtesy of Siemens):

This is yet another new example of “native” multi-field medical datasets, and underlines the need for research on techniques that are able to visualise this type of data.

(news via MedGadget)

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By cpbotha, October 30, 2006 19:23

Yesterday, I attended a day-long tutorial at the IEEE Visualization 2006 conference dealing with most aspects of medical visualization. You can download all course materials by clicking on this link.