Medical University of Vienna

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) was originally developed at the Centre of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (CMPBME) at the MUW and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA) in the early 1990s, and the MUW is still a leader and pioneer in the development of state-of-the-art OCT technology. Current and previous members of this Centre, leading in Europe and the second-best scientific OCT output worldwide, have published more than 3% of all OCT publications (around 6000). CMPBME has successfully coordinated and participated in several national and international (especially ERC funded) projects. In carrying out these duties, CMPBME will successfully be assisted by competent administrative staff members from MUW.

MUW has led two work packages in the project developing the OCT system. Furthermore, MUW is responsible for the integration of all imaging modalities. Due to its door-to-door collaboration with the clinics at the General Hospital of Vienna, it has participated in clinical validation of the imaging platform and development of the probe head development.

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Prof. Rainer Leitgeb has expertise in functional Optical Coherence Tomography, Coherence Microscopy, Parallel OCT, Digital Refocusing and management expertise as coordinator of and work package leader within national and EC research projects, and as head of laboratory. He is the director of Christian Doppler Laboratory of Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine, coordinating EC ICT MOON and is/has participating/ed in EC projects: MIB (H2020) FBI (H2020), ESOTRAC (H2020), FUN OCT (FP7);