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On March 20, prof. Richard Lopata, alumnus of MUSIC, gave his inaugural lecture with the title “Good Vibrations: Innovating with Sound and Light to support the healthcare system under pressure”.

There are still three open spots for the next course on QA4US to be held at March 27 and 28!!!!

Elk jaar worden in Nederland ongeveer 3.000 chirurgische ingrepen uitgevoerd om een vernauwing in de halsslagader te verwijderen - één van de belangrijkste oorzaken van een beroerte. Deze levensreddende ingreep kan na de operatie echter leiden tot verstoringen in de bloedstroompatronen, waardoor het risico bestaat dat de slagader opnieuw vernauwd raakt. Onderzoek hiernaar wordt vanuit het TURBO-programma ondersteund.

Michel Reijnen (UT) and Anne Saris (Radboudumc) received a TURBO grant for their research on Blood flow Evaluation After carotid surgical Treatment (BEAT); towards an improved treatment strategy for patients with carotid artery stenosis 

At the 35^th EUROSON meeting in Naples, the prize for the best published paper of the European Federation of Societies in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology was awarded to Gert Weijers for his paper entitled “Noninvasive Staging of Hepatic Steatosis Using Calibrated 2D US with Liver Biopsy as the Reference Standard as published in Radiology

On Tuesday August 27, 2024 Remy proudly defended his PhD thesis under the title "Advanced echocardiography in childhood cancer survivers, Fingerprinting the heart". 

On wednesday June 5, 2024 Judith defended her thesis named Ultrasound wave-tracking, pushing boundaries for vascular imaging. 

March 27, 2024 Successful Thesis Defense of Leon De Jong

Research of Thomas resulted in 2021 in the development of the BabyChecker, a smartphone app that allows healthcare workers to obtain echography-based parameters of the fetus to reduce maternal mortality in low resource settings. Three years later, the BabyChecker is already introduced in 5 different countries in Africa.