MEDPHOT: Optical methods for medical diagnosis and monitoring of deseases

• Unité de recherche: PCRD EU
• Numéro de projet: 00.0047-2
• Titre du projet anglais: MEDPHOT: Optical methods for medical diagnosis and monitoring of deseases

Mots-clé (Anglais)

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

Autre Numéro de projet (Anglais)

EU project number: QLG1-CT-2000-01464

Programme de recherche (Anglais)

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

Description succincte (Anglais)

See abstract

Autres indications (Anglais)

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

Partenaires et organisations internationales (Anglais)

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

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

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.

Références bases de données (Anglais)

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