AG&M annual report 2018
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AG&M Grants <strong>2018</strong><br />
Sofieke de Jonge<br />
From a young age the medical field and the gastrointestinal track intrigued<br />
me. This feeling was awakened during several gastrointestinal surgery<br />
internships as part of my study Technical Medicine. Being in such close<br />
contact with the tissue and its movement, the physiology of the organ<br />
grasped my interest. For this reason I started my PhD research focusing on<br />
capturing and measuring small bowel motility with dynamic MRI to explore<br />
this non-invasive technology as a biomarker for disease. I find it very<br />
exciting to develop and evaluate this imaging technology and explore the<br />
translation to applications in the clinical field of neurogastroenterology.<br />
The AG&M innovation grant allows me…<br />
… to continue my research as a postdoctoral fellow and evaluate the developed technique for MRI motility<br />
assessment in a patient population, chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction (CIPO), a very severe motility disorder.<br />
Together with PhD candidate Kyra van Rijn, I am working on projects in which we explore and improve the developed<br />
bowel motility MRI scans to gain insight in motility related bowel diseases for diagnostic and monitoring purposes.<br />
As a Technical Physician I am also involved in the clinical implementation of motility MRI at the Amsterdam UMC.<br />
More recently we started a collaboration to expand our knowledge on small bowel motility to stomach and colon<br />
motility on dynamic MRI. In the next few years we hope our work will contribute to a better understanding of<br />
gastrointestinal motility and chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction.<br />
Sofieke de Jonge and Kiera van Rijn<br />
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