Jørgen Arendt Jensen and Erik Vilain Thomsen, ERC Synergy grant-recipients 2019

Описание: Professor Jørgen Arendt Jensen and Professor Erik Vilain Thomsen, both from DTU Health Tech, has received a European Research Council (ERC) Synergy grant to do research in: “3-D Super resolution Ultrasound Real time imaging of Erythrocytes.”

The grant is distributed between two to four researchers jointly, and the synergy between the researchers’ different scientific competences is to produce new solutions to major scientific problems which the researchers would not be able to solve individually.

The total grant for the project is EUR 9.98 million.
From DTU, Professor Jørgen Arendt Jensen from DTU Health Tech receives EUR 4.5 million, and Professor Erik Vilain Thomsen from DTU Health Tech receives EUR 2.9 million. In addition, Professor Michael Bachmann Nielsen from Rigshospitalet (Copenhagen University Hospital) and Associate Professor Charlotte Mehlin Sørensen from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Copenhagen have received grants for the project.

In the project, SURE, the researchers will use red blood cells to create 3D ultrasound imaging in high resolution and in real time. This means that they follow red blood cells live while the cells run through the capillaries—the smallest blood vessels in the body—so that a high-resolution 3D image can quickly be produced of all blood vessels in the body. Studies of these fine capillaries are typically made using a contrast medium, which—seen in relation to ultrasound—is a cumbersome and slow process which takes up to ten minutes. The new method makes it possible to show the images immediately while the doctor is scanning, several thousand times faster than with the use of contrast medium. Ultrasound also has the advantage that there are no known side effects, and that it can therefore be used for all patients and several times. The researchers hope that the project can result in a paradigm shift in the scientific examination, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide variety of vascular diseases, cancers, and diabetes.

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