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RESEARCH GROUPS
Research Group in Biomedical Applications
of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Programme: Bioengineering and Medical Imaging
Lead Researcher: Arús Caraltó, Carles Group Members
STAFF MEMBERS: Candiota Silveira, Ana Paula | García Chacón, Alina | Juliá Sapé, Ma Margarita
ASSOCIATED MEMBERS: Acebes Martín, Juan José | Aguilera Grijalbo, Carlos | Arias Ramos, Nuria | Baque- ro Munera, Miguel | Cabañas Egaña, Miquel | Capdevila Cirera, Antonio | Cos Domingo, Mónica | Fernán- dez Flores, Francisco | Ferrer Font, Laura | Lope Piedrafita, Silvia | Majos Torro, Carlos | Moreno Torres, Ángel | Oriol Rocafiguera, Albert | Pumarola i Battle, Martí | Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo
CONTRIBUTORS: Ciezka, Magdalena | Fernández Coello, Alejandro | Ortega Martorell, Sandra Main lines of research
The major research interest of our group is the improvement of non-invasive diagnosis and prognosis of anomalous brain masses by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), as well as the development of non- invasive therapy response monitoring tools for cerebral tumors . Within this major goal, several sublines with connections to the MR methodology or other pathologies are being investigated, which include:
• Characterization of the type and grade of human brain tumors and other neural pathologies by imaging (MRI) and in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS, MRSI) .
• Classifier development and their implementation into decision-support systems (DSS) for helping in clini- cal decision making in an evidence-based medicine context .
• Search for molecular biomarkers of in vivo tumor progression/therapy response with the help of ex vivo and in vitro studies of cell models, animal models and their biopsies .
• In vivo molecular phenotyping of tumor progression and therapy response .
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