Eindhoven University of Technology
The Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), established 1956, is one of the three technical Universities of the Netherlands offering several study programs in engineering and science. The TUE formulated recently its strategic research agenda focussing on Energy-, Mobility- and Health-related topics. Much of the Health related research is performed within the department of Biomedical Engineering comprising research groups related to regenerative medicine, material research, computer science and medical imaging. The group Biomedical NMR started with as strong focus on high field MRI research and extended its capabilities into multimodal imaging comprising SPECT, PET, CT, MRI imaging for cardiovascular and oncological applications. Over the last years, with the appointment of Prof. Gruell, who holds chair for image guided interventions, the TUE set up a major activity in therapy with MR-HIFU and drug delivery as the main topics.
Research is performed in the Centre for Imaging Research and Education (CIRE), which is a joined laboratory of the Eindhoven University and Philips Research. CIRE offers a dedicated infrastructure for the development of new imaging and therapeutic agents and formulations comprising a chemical, biology and cell lab, and a preclinical imaging laboratory with preclinical SPECT, PET, US scanners, dedicated high field small animal scanners 7 T and 9.4 T and a clinical 3T MR-HIFU system. The latter has a special coil for preclinical research. All imaging modalities are integrated into a radiochemistry lab which allows multimodal imaging and biodistribution studies using nuclear imaging and labeling techniques.