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Universitätsklinikum Erlangen scans first participant in EUPHORIA IBD clinical study
The first person participated in the EUPHORIA clinical study at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Medizinische Klinik 1, Ulmenweg 18, 91054 Erlangen in Germany on February 8, 2021. The first scans with iThera Medical‘s MSOT Acuity Echo System also took place.
Congratulations to the EUPHORIA clinical study team in Erlangen led by Prof. Dr. med. Maximilian Waldner and Dr. med. Daniel Klett.
EUPHORIA assembles for virtual plenary meeting, January 21/22, 2021
The EUPHORIA consortium gathered for a two-day online plenary meeting on January 21st and 22nd, 2021. Work package updates and future plans were presented. Action items were compiled and much discussion surrounding the multi-national clinical study and the MSOT Acuity technologies ensued. Targetted small follow-up meetings will be scheduled in the coming days.
iThera Medical hosts Prof. Dr Vasilis Ntziachristos of TU München for invited talk December 10th
On behalf of IEEE EMB Student Chapter from TU München, iThera Medical is hosting Prof. Dr Vasilis Ntziachristos of TU München to deliver a talk about Optoacoustics – a novel and promising medical imaging modality. The one-hour special event will be delivered free, online, Thursday, December 10th, 2020 at 4:00 GMT/5:00 PM CET/11:00 AM EST. Register here.
Optoacoustic Imaging is a biomedical, non-invasive imaging modality based on the optoacoustic effect. It uses optical excitation and ultrasound detection (light in – sound out) to generate in-vivo images of tissue morphology and function. The technology has now advanced to bring fundamentally new abilities to optical imaging that result in high-resolution visualization much deeper than what is allowed by optical microscopy. This emerging imaging modality can bring solutions to a number of unmet clinical need in cancer, cardiovascular or metabolic diagnostics.
Prof. Dr Vasilis Ntziachristos is a Full Professor of Medicine and Electrical Engineering and holds the Chair of Biological Imaging at the Technical University of Munich. He is also the Director of the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Ntziachristos is a globally recognized pioneer and entrepreneur in biomedical imaging. His area of research encompasses the development of new methods and devices for biological and medical imaging focusing on innovative non-invasive approaches that visualize previously unseen physiological and molecular processes […]
EUPHORIA presented at Translating Documentation and Communication in Clinical Research Conference
On November 24, 2020, 
Deborah-Ann Schuster, Clinical Trial Manager at iThera Medical was an invited speaker at the Translating Documentation and Communication in Clinical Research 2020 Virtual Conference. In her talk titled “What Do You Need To Know When Translating Your Regulatory Document?”, Deborah-Ann presented EUPHORIA as the case study for the translation requirements with medical devices.
The one-day online event delivered top-quality content and engagement covering all aspects of language operations for clinical research: clinical trial protocols, informed consent, site documents, regulatory submissions and correspondence, labelling, IFUs, and patient correspondence.
The EUPHORIA newsletter is available
The EUPHORIA team has been extremely busy these last many months. We have put in the place the groundwork for our clinical study, presented at conferences and submitted ground-breaking work for publication.
Read a recap of all of our activity in our new project newsletter. It includes an interview with RAYFOS CEO Vassilis Sarantos and detailed information about our clinical study too.
Download the 4-page EUPHORIA newsletter here.
University Hospital Erlangen PIs publish study in Photoacoustics
Principal Investigators at University Hospital Erlangen have co-authored a EUPHORIA-acknowledged paper that appeared in the journal Photoacoustics on November 11, 2020. The open-access study entitled Precision of Handheld Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography for Muscle Imaging was authored by researchers: Alexandra L. Wagner, Vera Danko, Anna Federle, Daniel Klett, David Simon, Rafael Heiss, Jörg Jüngert, Michael Uder, Georg Schett, Markus F. Neurath, Joachim Woelfle, Maximilian J. Waldner, Regina Trollmann, Adrian P. Regensburger and Ferdinand Knieling. Congratulations to the entire team!
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2020.100220
Download the pdf here.
SME RayFos in the EUPHORIA Spotlight
Headquartered in Basingstoke in the south of England with eight employees, RayFos Limited is active in the optical engineering and real-time processing systems domain. This innovative scientific software firm specializes in advanced signal processing system integration for a variety of measurement applications.
Established in 2012, RayFos provides state-of-the-art solutions tailored to the needs and business requirements of their demanding high tech clients. To do this, RayFos works in close collaboration with its clients in a systematic yet flexible manner to deliver tailored, high impact innovation in scientific applications. The team is comprised of a group of career professionals with a wide range of scientific software expertise, professional certification and special skill sets in a variety of related engineering fields. The company is well-known for its development of alpha prototypes which can transform innovations to applied technologies and eventually functional products. Currently, the company has been involved in 8 EU-funded research projects.
Vassilis Sarantos
We met up with Vassilis Sarantos, the Chief Executive Officer at RayFos Limited to ask a few questions.
Please introduce yourself.
I am an Electrical and Computer Engineer working for more than 25 years in software and hardware development for numerous product development projects for the global market. My main research interests include real-time image/video processing, embedded system development, software development, medical imaging, and metrology system development. I am the founder of RayFos and I am passionate about transforming scientific research lab prototypes to commercial devices.
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