Research project HyperLimit-CAM approved

Back at the beginning of 2019, we met with doctors from Rostock and Greifswald to discuss a potential project on amputation levels and parathyroid gland detection. It quickly became clear that this was a promising concept.

For this reason, a project was submitted to the Technology Consulting Institute in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern together with the University Medical Center Greifswald, the Südstadtklinikum Rostock and the University of Applied Sciences Wismar. Now, about one and a half years later, the first kick-off meeting for the official start of the project took place.

The project is divided into two parts:

1. In the first part, the amputation level in lower extremity surgeries will be assessed to minimize the error rate in such surgeries. The goal is to reduce the error rate by 50 % through hyperspectral imaging.
2. The second part deals with the intraoperative recognition of the parathyroid glands (NSD). During resection of thyroid tissue, complications occur again and again due to poor differentiability of both tissues. Support is to be provided here by the combination of hyperspectral and fluorescence imaging.

Many thanks to the TBI for the opportunity to implement this project. We are looking forward to the upcoming tasks and hope to further improve the clinical outcome for patients with the results.

This project is co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund.