North-East Innovative Regional Cluster for Structural and Molecular Imaging (IMAGO-MOL)
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European Programmes | Project Name | Name & Description (Regional/National) | Link (Regional/National) |
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H2020 Other | Institutional building and increasing the visibility of North-East Innovative Regional Cluster for Structural and Molecular Imaging - support framework for increasing the RDI capacity of the members and SMEs competitiveness in the area - IMAGO MOL
| Competiveness Operational Program 2007-2013, Support for integrating enterprises into supply chains or clusters. |
The IMAGO- MOL cluster developed a project that had as research theme the creation of a database of unique medical data (USMED) for all medical units part of the system. A unique database was created by integrating all PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) available from all hospitals. Medical data is stored in local PACS and in the moment that a patient comes to a medical unit that is integrated into the system, a request is made into the system to collect all data specific to that patient. All PACS containing data of that patient will send these data to the local PACS where the current doctor can analyze them in order to establish the correct diagnostic.
The IMAGO-MOL Cluster project team developed also SurgeryAssist application that connects to USMED, downloads requested images and displays them on a screen in the operating room. This application includes the main functionalities of a DICOM viewer (zoom, annotation, rotate, split, etc.) most of them through voice command. In this way the surgeon can voice control the image display mode without pausing the surgery act.
IMAGO-MOL Cluster is the first medical cluster from Romania and intends to develop in partnership the following project ideas:
- Developing and improving e-health services with participative approach of the patients (empowering patients in taking part in managing their health state).
- An application for tele-monitoring patients: using wireless sensors to feed online patient health parameters values. This would be a web application that the physician can connect to anytime and anywhere in order to assess the health state evolution of the patient.
- An integrated system to assist communication and tele-monitor severely incapacitated patients. The application implements a two-way communication system with patients who lost their speech ability following a neurological accident. Dialogue is built though technology methods using keywords or pictograms displayed in front of the patient, successively, in order for them to choose the most appropriate one, by using a mechanical control or by eye focalization.
- Retro-prospective researches of functional and structural research for early diagnosis of cerebro-spinal degenerative changes and stroke.
- Radiotracers uptake mechanisms studies: finding the best molecules to be traced for neoplasia evolution.
- Research on the synthesis and applicability, by in vitro and in vivo studies, of new radiotracers for PET and SPECT techniques and in combination with structural imaging
- Research on the synthesis, structural and functional characteristics, by in vitro and in vivo studies, of new nanoparticles radiotracers and applicability in diagnosis and treatment
- Combined structural and functional imaging studies, both in vitro and in vivo, on the diagnosis and evolution of certain malignancies
- Surveillance and epidemiological alert IT software for the sensitivity profile for bacterial infections, useful in preventing the multidrug development and realization of a geographic “map” distribution of microbial antibiotic sensitivity level.
- imaging research of telemedicine and ITC sector in the context of the fact that IT softwares have applicability in improving patients healthcare and preventions of certain pathologies