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Gert Weijers

Gert Weijers is Researcher at the Department of Radiology of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. In 2004 he joined the Clinical Physics Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre.

Gert studied Electrical Engineering at the Saxion Hogeschool, Enschede. His special research interest are: quality assurance for ultrasound equipment, for which he developed the QA4US software package; cardiac 2D-strain analysis for which he developed post-processing software and a research platform; quantitative ultrasound imaging for staging the hepatic fat content, called Calibrated Ultrasound (CAUS). The latter was also the topic for his PhD project, which resulted in the thesis entitled ‘Staging Liver Fat by Quantitative Ultrasound’ in 2019.

In 2018 Gert received the NWO OpenMind grant for his research on fetal lung maturity classification using similar ultrasound methodology as developed during his PhD. 

Since 2022 Gert is also affiliated to the Dutch Expert Center for Screening (LRCB) as technical advisor and developer of a ultrasound quality system for the prenatal screening (PNS) in the Netherlands.