MEDPHOT: Optical methods for medical diagnosis and monitoring of deseases

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 00.0047-2

Key words (English)

Optical diagnosis; optical monitoring; tissue optics; optical phantoms; fluorescence spectroscopy; fluorescence imaging;
Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Scientific Research;
JRC

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: QLG1-CT-2000-01464

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
EPF Lausanne
Département de Génie Rural
Laboratoire de Pollution Air-Sol / LPAS

Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: Inst. f. Lasertechnologien Medizin/Messtechnik Ulm (D)

Abstract (English)

The TN aims at a qualification and validation of non-invasive optical methods as tools for diagnosis and monitoring the course of diseases like diabetes or cancer. It is proposed for coordinating research into common issues of different methods such as optical coherence tomography, optical spectroscopy, auto- and xeno-fluorescence, frequency and time domain measurements. The European consortium is composed of a multidisciplinary team of researchers, technical experts, clinicians and partners from industry. In a horizontal approach, different fields as tissue optical characterisation, anatomical and functional imaging, measurement techniques and instrumentation as well as standardisation are addressed. It is the aim to optimise the systems for clinical use and to improve the device specifications for diagnosis. The clinical application of the new methods will be validated by multi-centre clinical trials.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 00.0047-2