Imaging Sciences & Biomedical Engineering (Research Division)

Overview
• REF2014: Ranked first in terms of the overall proportion of our submissions ranked at 4* or 3* (Unit of Assessment 15 – General Engineering).
• Research income: The expansion of the Division's research capacity over the last 5 years is reflected in the growth of competitively won research income which has increased to over £40m in 2011/12. This is primarily due to the award of a number of strategic grants, and the creation of two new research departments in Biomedical Engineering and Perinatal Imaging and Health
• Current number of academic staff: 70
• Current number of research students: 107
• Recent publications: Papers have been published in the Lancet, Nature Medicine, Magnetic Resonance Medicine, Journal of Bone & Mineral Research, Medical Image Analysis, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Circulation, Dalton Transactions.
• Current research projects:
o Wellcome/EPSRC- Medical Engineering Centre
o CRUK/EPSRC Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre
o Grand Challenges: Translating Biomedical Modelling into the Heart of the Clinic
o euHEART: Personalised & Integrated Cardiac Care: Patient-specific Cardiovascular Modelling and Simulation for In Silico Disease Understanding & Management and for Medical Device Evaluation & Optimization
o HYPERImage: Hybrid PET-MR system for concurrent ultra-sensitive imaging
o Virtual Anatomy Trainer for Minimal Access Surgery (VATMAS)
o Magnetic Resonance Guided Therapy of Cardiac Arrhythmia (MaRGiTA)
o NCRI: PET Research Network
o Quantitative assessment of with intravascular contrast agents
o Small animal PET imaging for translational biomedical research
o Electrophysiology Platform for Image-Guided Arrhythmia Management (EPIGRAM)
o Time resolved whole-heart cardiac imaging using highly parallel magnetic resonance
o Electro-anatomical fusion for guiding EP procedures and patient-specific modelling and electrophysiology platform for image-guided arrhythmia management ersity of Sheffield (Rod Hose)
o TU-Munich...