The Chair for Image-guided Therapy (IGT) led a portfolio of research activities involving the investigation and development of algorithmic tools, hardware components, and complete systems for clinical applications that leveraged imaging modalities for diagnostic, interventional, and surgical methods. The technological solutions emerged through dialogue with clinical research leads in hepatobiliary, ENT, neurosurgery, and radiology, and were designed to supersede current clinical methods and deliver zero morbidity or minimal invasiveness for cure (ENT, neurosurgery) or chronic care survival (liver cancer).
These novel solutions envisioned disruptive changes to therapeutic approaches in intervention and surgery by considering, a priori, the clinical outcome of the procedure as the starting point for the technology design — rather than relying on iterative improvements to the current clinical state-of-the-art. All developed technologies were taken into the clinic and to the patient as standard for clinical validation, in close collaboration with clinical partners.
