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STIMULATE VITALISES THE RESEARCH SITE MAGDEBURG
SERVICE GROUP PROMOTES KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Bringing scientific solutions and innovations to practical implementation is the concern of the "Service Group
Transfer" of the research campus STIMULATE. Under the leadership of the engineer Dr. Mandy Kaiser, a
network is being set up to intensify the exchange between industry and research, in both directions. “After
all, STIMULATE is supposed to generate positive economic effects," explains Mandy Kaiser.
The results of scientific work are to be applied in practice. In return, however, practitioners should
also define their technical requirements. "Bidirectional transfer" is what Mandy Kaiser calls this
exchange. This is a win-win situation for all parties involved, which is achieved through third-party
funded projects with industrial partners. The advantages are obvious: industry and scientific institutions
jointly carry out application-oriented research at STIMULATE and develop the corresponding
solution, which is then tested by medical practitioners.
A good example of how bidirectional transfer works is the technique developed at the STIMULATE
research campus for image correction in C-Arm imaging. Behind this bulky term is a procedure with
a robot-supported X-ray system - a so-called C-Arm - which moves around the patient and takes
X-ray images from many directions. In practice, however, patient movements, such as breathing,
cause undesirable image distortion. The research group "C-Arm Imaging" has therefore developed
a procedure to correct these distortions. “This is important for the assessment of cerebral haemorrhage
in stroke and for determining the subsequent treatment path," explains Dr. Mandy Kaiser.
The developed method has been clinically evaluated in the research campus and is now being
integrated by Siemens into its current research prototypes of the C-Arm software.
Within STIMULATE, a procedure for the reproducible measurement of the radiopaque visibility
of intravascular implants was developed. From these results, a service for the evaluation of such
implants was derived, which has already been used by implant manufacturers. This method has
already been introduced into the DIN standards committee for catheters and drains and has the
Dr. Mandy Kaiser
Chair of Medical Telematics
and Medical
Technology at OVGU
Magdeburg
Photo: © Stefan Berger