SyntheticMR news 2011

SyntheticMR recruits Stefan Tell as CEO

We welcome our new CEO, Stefan Tell. He started his work December 1^st. 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 12-16^th. SyntheticMR was participating in both sessions and the exhibition.

Wednesday 14^th, 8.30 to 10 am an interesting session was held about synthetic MRI and SyntheticMR. 

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