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Mimics Innovation Awards 2007 Winners

Mimics Innovation Awards 2007

 

Washington, 01.06.2007 - The winners of the third edition of the Mimics Innovation Awards have been announced at the International Mimics User Group Meeting in Washington. An independent, international jury, composed of world leading experts in Advanced 3D Medical Image Processing, selected the three most innovative publications in 3 categories. We congratulate:

  1. Category 1:
    Innovative implant design system & the development of innovative medical procedures.

     

    Vos W., De Backer J., Germonpré P., Parizel P., Wuyts F.,De Backer W. – University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    Combining Mimics and Computational Fluid Dynamics to Assist in and Evaluate the Placement of an Intrabronchial Stent in a Patient with Congenital Kyfoscoliosis

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  1. Category 2:
    Adaptation of medical systems or procedures to the needs of third world countries or the lowering of threshold of medical procedures

     

    Ting J., Fuqiang Z., Xuemei H., Chengtao W. – Shanghai 9th People’s Hospital, China, School of Medical Engineering Shanghai, China
    Design and Fabrication of Auricular Prostheses by CAD/CAM System

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  1. Category 3: Open Category

     

    Helgason T., Gargiulo P., Ingvarsson P., Yngvason S. – Landspitali-University Hospital, Iceland
    Using Mimics to Monitor Changes in Bone Mineral Density of Femur during Electrical Stimulation Therapy of Denervated Degenerated Thigh Muscles

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  1. Runner up in Category 1

     

    ArifinD.Y., Wang C.H., Smith K.A., Kan Yiu T.L. – Molecular Engineering of Biological and Chemical Systems, Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    Patient-specific Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery to Brain Tumors

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Materialise congratulates these winners and wishes to thank all who participated in the Mimics Innovation Awards 2007.

 

These winning cases will be presented at the International Medical Innovations Conference 2008 in Vienna, Austria. Join us there!

Facts and figures

 

This third edition of the Mimics Innovation Awards was again very successful. 32 papers, from 16 different countries, were submitted, all of them of very high quality. The Mimics Innovation Awards are not only worth 5,000€, they are becoming a prestigious prize in 3D Medical Image Processing. Winners are invited to present their project at the annual International Medical Innovations Conference 2008 in Vienna, Austria.

 

To overview the list of submissions, click here. 

 

Materialise makes the articles, submitted in the course of the Mimics Innovation Awards, available to any third party interested. In no event shall Materialise, its directors, employees, subsidiaries, or affiliates be liable for any damages arising out of or related to the use of the information in these articles.

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