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Research at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering (DoEng) has enabled accurate positioning to be added to 2D freehand ultrasound probes to enable the acquisition of large coherent blocks of high-resolution 3D ultrasound image data. The software code base developed in the DoEng was licensed to two separate companies, Schallware and MedaPhor, to enable them each to develop an ultrasound training product. Both companies have sold to more than 30 customers worldwide during the REF impact period; the Cambridge software had a key role in contributing to the innovation and quality of the products developed by both companies, and significantly increased the speed at which they were able to bring these products to market.
Research on medical imaging, undertaken by Kranioti at the University of Edinburgh since 2010, has led to cultural, commercial and practice-based impacts.
i) Collaboration with National Museums Scotland (NMS) on the successful Fascinating Mummies exhibition (2012) involved the construction of an in-depth virtual view of a specific popular exhibit — the Rhind Mummy excavated in 1857 (5.3). The initial exhibition attracted 61k visitors, and provided enhanced public understanding of these important artefacts and material about the virtual view continues to be available online.
ii) Collaboration with the Holoxica company to combine computerised tomography (CT) scanning technology with photonics technology in order to produce an innovative digital hologram product based on the Rhind Mummy's skull giving a true 3D view of the object. This has subsequently been displayed at the Holography Museum at MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Radiologists and police in Scotland have separately sought Kranioti's expertise to improve their understanding of the values of medical imaging technology in cognate fields of forensic anthropology.
Imaging speed is of critical importance in most Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging applications. King's College London (KCL) researchers have developed spatiotemporal undersamplings, or "k-t" methods, for three-dimensional (3D) imaging and corresponding image reconstruction methods that have increased the speed of imaging significantly, so that particular scans are now 5-7 fold faster. This has directly impacted the experience of the patient whose overall examination time has been reduced from more than 1 hour to less than 30 minutes depending on the application. The technology has been patented and has been implemented by Philips Healthcare, one of the three major manufacturers of MR equipment. A clinical solution platform for 3D MR cardiac perfusion and quantitative flow imaging, based on the technology developed at KCL, has also been launched by the Swiss company, GyroTools LLC.