Together with our research partners, SurgicEye conducts several innovative projects for medical quality assurance and enhancing intra-operative imaging and navigation. Through high-end research and innovative solutions we contribute to the cure of cancer.

Running Research Projects

Enhanced Radio-guided Occult Lesion Localization; Intra-operative 3D molekulare Bildgebung und Navigation

In this project SurgicEye developes together with Crystal Photonics and ART a prototype for freehandSPECT image reconstruction using a handheld tracked gamma camera. The freehandSPECT workflow will be optimized for imaging and navigation for radioguided occult lesion localization. At the end of the project, the created prototype will be used for clinical evaluation.

Duration: 3 years; July 2010 - June 2013

Partners:

• Crystal Photonics GmbH
• Advanced Realtime Tracking GmbH

Funding Agency: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany

Endo-TOFPET_US

Endotofpet addresses and combines an endoscoping single-photon counting PET detector head with secondary traditional detection electronics and new biomarkers for tumoural processes to produce preclinical prototypes for detecting and fighting cancer. Significant advances to state-of-the-art will be made for compact high-temperature detectors, scintillators, ultra-fast detection electronics, and multi-modal imaging techniques. SurgicEye will engineer new solutions for receiving and visualizing nuclear signals from an endoscopic probe. In the final stages, nuclear and ultrasonic images will be combined, creating a new method of navigating and visualizing with an endoscope.

Duration: 4 years; January 2011 - January 2015

Partners:

• Universite de la Mediterranee, Aix-Marseille
• European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois et Universite de Lausanne
• Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
• Delft Technical University
• Fibercryst
• Kloe SA
• Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas
• Technische Universitat Muenchen
• University of Heidelberg
• University Milano Biccoca

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ 2007-2013) under Grant Agreement n°256984.

Conducted Research Projects

Image Fusion of FreehandSPECT with 2D Ultrasound

Within the project a first demonstrator for the fusion of 2D ultrasound imaging and SurgicEye’s freehand SPECT technology was implemented and tested.

Duration: April 2009 - June 2010

Funding Agency: BayTou - Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs,. Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, Germany