Research
and development at the BioMedical Imaging Laboratory involves
- development of new
methods to quantitatively image bone
- improvement of existing
methods of bone analysis
- development of concepts
and phantoms for quality assurance and control
- clinical bone
densitometry
The research performed at
the laboratory is highly interdisciplinary, involving
- physics of radiation
(interaction of radiation with matter, generation and detection of
ionizing radiation)
- electronics
(amplification of detector signals, interfacing of peripheral devices
with computers)
- mechanical engineering
(scanner gantries, x-y-z
motion tables, sample and patient positioning devices)
- computer science (drivers
for peripheral scanning and data collection devices, programs for
scanner operation and data collection, data bases for individual and
longitudinal data analyses)
- image processing
(extraction of relevant parameters from images, longitudinal
comparison of serially collected images)
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