"The HYPERImage team's combined expertise in semiconductor physics, signal processing and medical scanner design, together with its expert clinical knowledge, have moved the project an important step forward in the development of a new imaging tool that is intended to help clinicians diagnose and treat some of the world's most prevalent killer diseases, such as breast cancer," says Henk van Houten, senior vice president of Philips Research and head of Philips' healthcare research program. "I am proud to say that proof-of-concept of an MR-compatible PET detector took the team less than 1.5 years to achieve. It clearly demonstrates that good collaborations lead to very fast progress."
The HYPERImage consortium comprises three universities (King's College London, UK; Universitä[<00E4>][<00E4>][<00E4>][<00E4>][<00E4>]t Heidelberg, Germany; and Universiteit Ghent - Institute for Broadband Technology, Belgium), three research foundations (Fundació[<00F3>][<00F3>][<00F3>][<00F3>][<00F3>]n Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Spain; Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy; and The Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands), a university medical center (Uniklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany) and the industrial partner (Philips, The Netherlands and Germany).
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EU funding for the HYPERImage project, which is being provided as part of the EU's 7th Framework Program, amounts to around EUR 5 million. The consortium partners will provide an additional EUR 2.3 million. The project started in 2008 and will run for three years. Philips' leadership of the consortium is based on its experience in designing and developing medical scanners.
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