medvis.org » Uncategorized http://medvis.org all things medical visualisation Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:52:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Dirk Bartz in Memoriam http://medvis.org/2010/03/30/dirk-bartz-in-memoriam/ http://medvis.org/2010/03/30/dirk-bartz-in-memoriam/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:52:29 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/?p=45 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.

]]> http://medvis.org/2010/03/30/dirk-bartz-in-memoriam/feed/ 0 ECR 2008 http://medvis.org/2008/03/09/ecr-2008/ http://medvis.org/2008/03/09/ecr-2008/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:27:32 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2008/03/09/ecr-2008/ 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:

Cool Medical Delta people

]]> http://medvis.org/2008/03/09/ecr-2008/feed/ 1 Siemens unveils MR-PET prototype http://medvis.org/2007/05/27/siemens-unveils-mr-pet-prototype/ http://medvis.org/2007/05/27/siemens-unveils-mr-pet-prototype/#comments Sun, 27 May 2007 12:05:46 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2007/05/27/siemens-unveils-mr-pet-prototype/ 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):

MR-PET slices.

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)

]]> http://medvis.org/2007/05/27/siemens-unveils-mr-pet-prototype/feed/ 0 Visual Medicine tutorial at IEEE Visualization 2006 http://medvis.org/2006/10/30/visual-medicine-tutoral-at-ieee-visualization-2006/ http://medvis.org/2006/10/30/visual-medicine-tutoral-at-ieee-visualization-2006/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:23:24 +0000 cpbotha http://medvis.org/2006/10/30/visual-medicine-tutoral-at-ieee-visualization-2006/ 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.

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