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More than 400 scientific contributions in the last five years, many of them in
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relevant international journals, totalling more than 300 in Impact Factor. The

Laboratory has produced 18 PhD Theses and numerous Master Theses, some
of them international. More than 45 grant holders have completed a stay in the

Laboratory, which has also organized more than 50 postgraduate courses, includ-

ing two editions of a Master’s in Biomedical Engineering. The group is partitipating
in Biomedical Engineering Degree in the Universidad Carlos III. Presently Manuel

Desco also chairs the Spanish Excellence Network on Technological Innovation in
Hospitals (ITEMAS).

Several developments from his Laboratory have been transferred to the industry,

becoming commercial products with worldwide distribution. Since 1998, when the

first technology transference contract was signed with SUINSA (a teleradiology
system: TELRA), the Laboratory has been active in developing and marketing

different hi-tech systems, including a high resolution CT scanner and several PET

and combined CT-PET scanners, for use in experimental biomedical reserach. One
of these PET systems constitutes a references in the insustry and is currently be-

ing marketed by General Electric. Tha Laboratory has also transferred echocardio-
graphic quantification software to SIEMENS-ACUSON. In 2004 the Unit received

the “UNICEM award for technological innovation” from the Madrid Chamber of

Commerce. Presently the group mantain numerous colaborations with national
and international institutions (UNED, CSIC, CIEMAT, NIH, Brookhaven Nacional

Laboratory, Washington University, McGill University, Lawrence Berkeley Labora-

tory, etc.).

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