UMCG researcher Charalampos Tsoumpas has been awarded a €1.5 million Vici grant from NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) to develop methods for significantly reducing radiation exposure in PET/CT scans—without compromising image quality. 🔬 Why does this matter? PET/CT scans are vital for diagnosing diseases like cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s, but radiation limits their use, especially in children, pregnant women, and clinical research. 🤖 The power of AI Tsoumpas' team will explore how AI can enhance imaging even with lower radiation doses. If successful, this could reduce radiation by a factor of 30, making diagnostics safer and accelerating drug development. A huge congratulations to Harry and his team! 🎉Read more on our website: https://lnkd.in/edHUQYXT #UMCG #ViciGrant #MedicalResearch #AIinHealthcare #Innovation #RadiationReduction
Congratulations Harry and all the best with your exciting research plans 🍀
Congratulations Harry - well deserved!
I am thrilled to have received this highly competitive grant. It's been quite emotional as it came after many sacrifices and lots of hard work (so a big THANK YOU to my wife, Fabiola, for her patience and support)! I am so grateful to all current & past PhD students for their hard work and especially to those who contributed to the development of important publications & pilot data for this proposal (Philipp Mohr, Samaneh Mostafapour, Mostafa Roya, Zekai Li and Laura Providência) and relevant work of my first PhD student (when in Leeds) on kernelised reconstruction (Dr Daniel Deidda). The longstanding collaboration with my PhD supervisor (Prof. Kris Thielemans) and recent collaboration with Prof Daniel Watts from York has been very important and I hope to keep collaborating with them on this proposal as well as with Prof Guobao Wang from UC Davis, a world-leading scientist in PET. It would be a huge remiss not to thank my bachelor thesis supervisor, Prof Efstathios (Stathis) Stiliaris who introduced me on the use of AI for image reconstruction in 2002. And I big thanks to Prof. Rudi Dierckx and Prof Adriaan Lammertsma for their trust in bringing me at UMCG - Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Department.
Congratulations Harry - well deserved!
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Congrats Harry!
Excellent news! Congratulations 🎉
Congratulations! 👏🏼
Congrats Charalampos Tsoumpas
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1moCongratulations dear Harry!!!!