Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS

We are opening the doors and inviting kids and their parents to visit our MRI Center at Fraunhofer MEVIS on Thursday, October 3rd. MEVIS joins the initiative “Maus Türöffner-Tag” by the WDR „Die Sendung mit der Maus” opening doors all over Germany to discover exciting and interesting facts and sites.

The artist-in-residence program, running for the second time, from October 1st until November 14th, connects digital medicine to education and arts.

MEVIS Institute Director Horst Hahn visits Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for an expert discussion on “AI in Medicine”.

Endovascular interventions are an integral part of the medical routine with 6 million procedures done worldwide annually. During the procedure, doctors insert a thin, flexible wire to navigate the catheter into the blood vessels to apply stents or remove blood clots. In order to navigate the catheter precisely through the vessels, patients undergo X-rays during the procedure. One downside is that “patients and doctors are exposed to a considerable amount of radiation,” says Dr. Torben Pätz, mathematician at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS in Bremen. “In addition, the Xrays merely show a 2D projection instead of a 3D image, which can sometimes impede precise localization of the catheter.” Fraunhofer MEVIS is developing a system called IntelliCath (Intelligent Catheter Navigation) to remedy these problems.