SyntheticMR signs agreement with Swedish University Hospital
SyntheticMR AB, a subsidiary of Accelerator Nordic AB, has entered into an agreement with Uppsala University Hospital regarding the use of SyMRI® in clinical research at the hospital. SyMRI, SyntheticMR’s software for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that enables faster workflows and better decision support, will initially be used in a research project on hydeocephalus.
“We see many possibilities with SyntheticMR’s product in this research project. If the project is successful, I have great hopes that we will also be able to use the software in the clinic as well”, says Elna-Marie Larsson, Professor, MD, DMSc at Uppsala University and Section of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Uppsala University Hospital.
Meet us at Philips User Meeting 31 May – 1 June
We will participate at Philips User Meeting in Copenhagen, 31 May – 1 June. So if you’re interested in us and our product, have any questions or just want to say Hi, please come and meet us.
We were at GE User Meeting in Stockholm
We participated at GE User meeting in Stockholm, 26/3 – 27/3. Our CTO, Marcel Warntjes, held a session about Synthetic MR
Going to ECR 2/3-5/3 2012?
If you’re going to visit ECR 2012 in Vienna, make sure to visit us. You will find us at the booth of Sectra, Hall D # 411. Link to official website for ECR
SyMRI Diagnostics Release 1 is now CE marked
Our latest release of SyMRI Diagnostics Release 1 is now CE marked (approved by Intertek). Release date 2012-01-12
SyntheticMR news 2011
SyntheticMR recruits Stefan Tell as CEO
We welcome our new CEO, Stefan Tell. He started his work December 1st. Mr. Tell has broad experience in finance, business development and strategy. He joins SyntheticMR from Siemens, where he most recently was of Head of Finance & Controlling for Siemens Real Estate, Sweden. Mr. Tell also has a background as an entrepreneur and holds an MBA from Henley Business School, University of Reading, London, U.K.
New article in European Radiology
The article “Novel whole brain segmentation and volume estimation using quantitative MRI” from Center for Medical Imaging Science and Visualization (CMIV),Linköping University, has now been published in European Radiology.
RSNA 27/11-2/12 2011
If you’re going to visit RSNA 2011 in Chicago, make sure to visit us. You will find us at the booth of Philips in Hall B,# 7721, at GE in Hall A, # 3335 and at Sectra, Hall B # 9117
Clinical use of SyMRI
The Swedish newspaper “Västerbottenkuriren” published an article about the implementation of SyMRI® Diagnostics at NUS, University Hospital of Northern Sweden.
“New MRI technique provides better control of how Multiple Sclerosis affects a patient. Synthetic MRI does not only give us an image, but also the exact measures of how the disease has affected the brain.” Read the article (in Swedish)
Örebro University Hospital applies brain segmentation software from SyntheticMR in MS research
SyntheticMR AB and Örebro University Hospital has entered into a collaboration agreement regarding the use of SyntheticMR’s software SyMRI® Diagnostics in research on Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Örebro University Hospital will use SyMRI Diagnostics in a research project aiming to assess MS using conventional and Synthetic MRI images, identify MS lesions based on tissue characteristics and evaluate the correlation between clinical symptoms and brain tissue changes as measured with the SyMRI software.
“One possible advantage with Synthetic MRI is a shortening of study time as only one series of images is needed to obtain the required type of images. Another interesting potential with Synthetic MRI is that tissue characteristics, which are used to create contrast in MR images, are determined through a quantitative method. We aim to evaluate these possibilities”, comments Wolfgang Krauss, MD at Örebro University Hospital, as motivation for using SyMRI. Wolfgang Krauss will lead the research project under the supervision of Per Thunberg, Associate Professor and PhD.
“We are looking forward to collaborating with Örebro University Hospital on this project and have high expectations on the outcome, which is important for us in order to make sure that we develop software that is optimized for both research and clinical needs”, says Marcel Warntjes, CEO of SyntheticMR.
Umeå University Hospital improves monitoring of treatment efficacy in MS with Synthetic MRI innovation
SyntheticMR has secured an order for our magnetic resonance imaging software from Umeå University Hospital. The software will be used in clinical practice to monitor the treatment efficiacy of multiple sclerosis (MS).
The software, SyMRI® Diagnostics, includes tools to automatically estimate a measure for brain atrophy and, with minor manual interaction, retrieve the volume of local brain structures and lesions.
“SyMRI enables us to retrieve accurate values of the patients status that we could not get before”, says Dr Richard Birgander, Neuroradiologist at Umeå University Hospital. “We have analyzed the software´s functionality and the result looks very good, which has led to the decision to introduce it in regular clinical procedures.”
“Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) generally has been about looking at pictures and trying to interpret them. SyMRI finally provides us with objective numbers” says Anders Svenningsson, Neurologist at Umeå University Hospital.”My goal is to integrate the SyMRI approach into the Swedish MS register to have more accurate follow-up possibilities for these patients”, The Swedish MS register is a nation-wide database that strives to improve care and convey knowledge of Multiple Sclerosis.
Link to the press release on Newsdesk
Röntgenveckan 2011
The annual meeting for professionals within Radiology was held in Umeå, September 12-16th. SyntheticMR was participating in both sessions and the exhibition.
Wednesday 14th, 8.30 to 10 am an interesting session was held about synthetic MRI and SyntheticMR.
New member of the team
SyntheticMR gives a warm welcome to Camilla Sandberg. She started her work June 1st as Quality Assurance Manager and has experience from both MRI and software development for the Medtech sector.
Camilla has an exam as staff nurse with focus on radiology. Her specialist area is project management and administration. In her previous job Camilla held the title Release Manager at Cambio Healthcare Systems and before that she worked at Sectra as Application Specialist.
With the appointment of Camilla we are adding another Medtech specialist to our highly competent team – we are very pleased to welcome Camilla to our company.
SyntheticMR at UKRC
The UK Radiological Congress of 2011 was held in Manchester, 6-8 June, and SyntheticMR participated together with our partner Sectra.
Tuesday June 7th, our CEO Marcel Warntjes held a presentation on the stand about quantitive MRI and our product SyMRI Diagnostics.
Location : Manchester Central, Windmill Street, Manchester, M2 3GX.
The MR Contrast Navigation Window feature is a useful tool on the graphical user interface of the SyMRI Diagnostics software that allows the radiologist to easily spot the current contrast-setting in the MR images, alternatively to navigate to a certain contrast setting interactively. In a way it acts as GPS for MR images. With SyMRI Diagnostics any contrast-setting can be visualized without the need to scan the patient again, which greatly improves the effectiveness of the image analysis process and provides better decision support for the radiologist. Read the entire press release here
SyntheticMR at ISMRM in Canada
SyntheticMR paticipated on May 7-13th at the Annual Meeting of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), held in Montreal
Our company, represented by CEO Marcel Warntjes, was involved in several presentations and
May12th 11:30 am he was one of the presenters during the session:
Advances in Image Analysis (in Room 511D-F)
He spoke on the topic ‘Using multi-parametric quantitative MRI to model myelin in the brain‘ showing the approach of Synthetic MRI and recent developments in the synthetic MRI technique.
Furthermore 3 scientific posters was presented:
- Contrast assessment of Synthetic Magnetic Resonance Imaging in clinical practice
- Estimation of total myelin volume in the brain
- T1 quantification in the cartilage of the knee with a modified IR-FSE technique
The interest for our concept and products was great and ISMRI in Canada was a very rewarding event for us.
Sectra User Meeting 2011
On April 13-14th, SyntheticMR participated at Sectra Scandinavian User Meeting in Linköping, Sweden. Hundreds of customers from Denmark, Norway and Sweden gathered to learn more about new products and give there feedback to their supplier.
As a partner of Sectra, SyntheticMR was of course at site giving demos of the product. Marcel Warntjes, CEO, also gave a presentation of SyMRI Diagnostics in one of the sessions.
SyntheticMR on Top 33 again
Once again SyntheticMR makes is to the top! This year the competition was tougher than ever. Over 200 companies were nominated, mostly IT- but also Bio- and MedTech companies. SynthethicMR is therefore proud to once again be ranked among the33 hottest start-up companies in Sweden 2011.
The jury consists of editorial staff from the Swedish technical magazine ‘Ny Teknik’ and the business magazine ‘Affärsvärlden’. Criteria’s to be nominated are for example a unique innovative product or service, great potential, based in Sweden, not started earlier than 2004 and not listed.
A background story of the company and its technique of synthetic magnetic resonance imaging were published in Ny Teknik last year at: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/innovation/forskning_utveckling/article745941.ece
SyntheticMRI in the news
The Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, writes about how Synthetic MRI can be very useful within forensics. “New weapon for the Swedish police”. Read the entire article . (In Swedish)
SyntheticMR news 2010
SyntheticMR ranked among the 33 hottest start-up companies – March 09, 2010
Synthetic MR AB is ranked among the 33 hottest start-up companies in Sweden 2010 by the Swedish technical magazine ‘Ny Teknik’ and the business magazine ‘Affärsvärlden’. A background story of the company and its technique of synthetic magnetic resonance imaging is published at Ny Teknik.
SyntheticMR news 2009
SyntheticMR welcomes you to RSNA 2009! – October 13, 2009
SyntheticMR AB welcomes you to RSNA 2009 in Chicago. You will find us in hall B, booth 9124, together with SECTRA Imtec AB. We will be happy to provide you with the latest news regarding synthetic magnetic resonance imaging!
CMIV is awarded the Athena Prize 2009 – September 18, 2009
Anders Persson and Anders Ynnerman at The Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) were awarded with the Athena Prize for their development of new advanced methods regarding visualization and medical imaging. The main project concerns virtual autopsy where the SyntheticMR software plays a major role for the MRI part. The Athena Prize is founded by the Swedish Delegation of cooperation within clinical research. The purpose of the prize is to give attention to prominent work within clinical research in Sweden.
Röntgenveckan 2009 – September 1, 2009
Welcome to visit us during Röntgenveckan 2009 in Jönköping, Sweden.
CE-certification of SyMRI Suite, Release 1 – June 18, 2009
SyMRI Suite, Release 1 has been CE-certified by Intertek Semko AB. The certification allows SyntheticMR to put the software package for sale on the European market.
Dr Marcel Warntjes awarded 400 000 SEK – April 16, 2009
Dr. Marcel Warntjes, CEO at SyntheticMR has been awarded 400 000 SEK for his project concerning tissue characterization of the pathology in the brain using quantitative MRI. Press Release in English, Pressrelease på svenska
Post-Mortem imaging using Synthetic MRI technology 2009-02-16
SyntheticMR news 2008
SyntheticMR launches SyMRI Suite, Release Candidate 1 – December 12, 2008
At the RSNA in Chicago the Release Candidate 1 of SyMRI Suite was launched. The Suite contains both Brain Studio and Cardiac Studio and even contains some feature that may be applied to synthetic knee imaging. There was an overwhelming attention to the new software that was presented in the Sectra booth in the north building of McCormick place. ‘It is a great experience’ comments Marcel Warntjes, CEO for SyntheticMR, ‘we reinforce contacts with our Scandinavian customers and many other potential customers have a look and respond very positively.’ ‘Some say it is the greatest thing they have seen at the RSNA’, adds Erika Peterson, clinical application specialist of SyntheticMR, ‘I have seen people coming back several times for another look. It is very promising.’
The Release Candidate 1 will be spread among the existing sites and a small number of new sites for clinical validation. Validation will be done mostly on the brain, concerning diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, dementia and cancer. Feedback on the software will be implemented in the actual Release 1 which is expected to be launched at ECR in Vienna on Mars 6, 2009
Swedish television at CMIV - November 26, 2008
The ‘Vetenskapsmagasinet’ of the Swedish television SVT filmed an episode of their popular-scientific program at the Center of Medical Science and Visualization (CMIV). Besides showing the excellent research on dual-source CT, part of the program will be about the application of Synthetic MRI at Linköping Hopital. This includes post-mortem examinations on people who died of heart attack as well as an item on the automatic brain segmentation of patients diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. The program is planned to be broadcasted in early summer 2009.
SyntheticMR at RSNA 2008 – Novmber 18, 2008
This year we will be able to show our latest developments in automatic brain segmentation based on a single 5 minutes scan’ comments Dr Marcel Warntjes, CEO . ‘It is another major step on our road to promote Synthetic MRI as a mature approach. We have had very positive responses from the first installations. At the RSNA we hope to broaden the public awareness for our products together with Sectra. Currently the main focus is to validate the technique further and get all regulatory requirements on place with the help of our beta sites. After this a much larger group of hospitals can test synthetic MRI themselves.’
At RSNA 2008 we welcome you to discover our approach to magnetic resonance imaging. You will find SyntheticMR AB in booth 9124 together with Sectra Imtec AB.
Sectra and SyntheticMR extend cooperation through distribution agreement – November 17, 2008
The IT and medical company Sectra and SyntheticMR AB, which develops analysis and imaging methods based on synthetic MRI (Magnet Resonance Imaging), have signed a distribution agreement for SyntheticMR AB’s software-based technology for significantly improved patient flow and analysis of MR examinations.
The Swedish Knowledge Foundation features movie displaying Synthetic MRI – November 12, 2008
The Swedish Knowledge foundation (KK-stiftelsen) features movie about CMIV (Center for Medical Imaging Science and Visualization) that shows virtual autopsies using CT and Synthetic MRI. Conventional MRI may not be optimal due to the low temperature of the body, using synthetic MRI the optimal contrast in the images can always be established after the actual scan.