IDentIFY - "Improving Diagnosis by Fast Field-Cycling MRI" - is a €6.6M research project funded through the EU Horizon 2020 Programme.
The project ran from 1st January 2016 to 31st December 2019; it involved partners from 9 sites across Europe (7 academic sites and 2 SMEs), led by The University of Aberdeen.
A link to the project’s entry in the EC’s CORDIS database can be found here.
- Project Overview
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The objective of the IDentIFY project is to bring FFC-MRI to the stage where it can be used as a routine tool for clinical diagnosis. This will require the development of new magnet technology, novel techniques for characterising environmental magnetic fields and a theoretical framework to help describe and understand the new biomarkers that FFC-MRI gives access to.
This animation explains the concept behind FFC-MRI:
IDentIFY
Funding Programme: Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges - health, demographic change and well-being
Duration: January 2016 - December 2019
Budget: €6,597,377Project Objectives
The main objectives of the IDentIFY project are to:
- Build upon and improve upon existing FFC technology to extend its range of clinical applications
- Develop the theory of NMR relaxation in tissue at ultra-low fields in order to build models and identify new disease biomarkers
- Design new image acquisition techniques that exploit the unique diagnostic information offered by FFC-MRI
- Test FFC-MRI methods on tissue samples from surgery and tissue samples
- Demonstrate proof-of-principal scans on patients
- Project Partners
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- University of Aberdeen, UK (UNIABDN) - Coordinating partner
- INSERM (Grenoble), FR
- CEA (Grenoble), FR
- CNRS (Grenoble), FR
- University of Torino, IT (UNITO)
- University Warmia & Mazury, PO (UWM)
- Technical University of Ilmenau, DE (TUIL)
- STELAR S.r.l., IT (STELAR)
- Oy International Electric Company, FI (OYIECO)
- G2Elab
- Publicity
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Newspaper/Magazine/Online Articles/Television/Radio
2019
CORDIS EU research results (Online) - https://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/131313/en?WT.mc_id=exp
17/6/19
Evening Express (Online) - https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/women-sought-to-test-new-cancer-scanner/
4/5/19
Press and Journal (Online) - https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1740686/scientists-turn-to-north-east-women-for-help-testing-new-type-of-mri-scanner/
4/5/19
BBC News (Online) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-48147158
3/5/19
Evening Express - https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/unis-cutting-edge-scanner-work-praised/
19/1/19
2018
Press and Journal - Innovation: University at the heart of groundbreaking advances
6/7/18
Evening Express
5/7/18
28/6/18
2017
The Scotsman (online) - IDentIFY project listed as one of five most innovative life sciences projects happening in Scotland right now. PDF of the article is here.
1/12/17
STV news item (video file © STV 2017) - Item about FFC-MRI and the first patient scans, including an interview with a patient; broadcast on the STV evening news.
21/11/17
BBC Radio Scotland (audio file © BBC 2017) - Interview with Prof David Lurie about FFC-MRI on Good Morning Scotland news programme
21/11/17
Original 106 (audio file © Original 106 2017) - Radio news item on FFC MRI including interview with a patient
21/11/17
BBC News (online) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" developed in Aberdeen - online content no longer available)
21/11/17
STV News (online) - Patients in Scotland first to use new powerful scanner
21/11/17
Twitter Feed - Nicola Sturgeon (First Minister of Scotland) - New scanner like 100 MRIs in one
21/11/17
The Scotsman (online) - New fast field cycling scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" - (online content no longer available)
21/11/17
The Times (online) - Scanner said to be like 100MRIs in one
21/11/17 Evening Express (online) - New fast-field cycling scanner like 100 MRIs in one (online content no longer available)
21/11/17
Evening Express (newspaper) - City scientists have just what the doctor ordered with MRI scan breakthrough
21/11/17
Press & Journal (newspaper) - New hi-tech scanner wins patient's praise
21/11/17 Citizen Aberdeen - New scanner like 100 MRIs in one
22/11/17 Engineering and Technology (online) - First patients put through new-generation MRI scanner
21/11/17 Evening Telegraph (online) - New fast field cycling scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" - (online content no longer available)
21/11/17 Health Imaging (online) - Scanner developed in Scotland is "like 100 MRIs in one
21/11/17 Global News Empire (online) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" developed in Aberdeen (online content no longer available)
21/11/17 Esportsemoney.com (online) - First patients put through new-generation MRI scanner (online content no longer available)
21/11/17 Planet Radio (online) - University of Aberdeen unveils "world first" Fast Field MRI scanner
21/11/17 Daily Motion (online) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" developed in Aberdeen- (online content no longer available)
21/11/17 The UK Bulletin (online) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" developed in Aberdeen (online content no longer available)
21/11/17 Fashion City (online) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" developed in Aberdeen
21/11/17 UWS Newsroom (online) - Prototype MRI scanner developed in Aberdeen
21/11/17 Kap Test Prep (online) - First patients scanned using ultra-powerful MRI scanner (no longer available online)
21/11/17 Original Radio (online) - First patients scanned by new Aberdeen University MRI which is like "100 in one" - (no longer available online)
21/11/17 E4Y (online) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" developed in Aberdeen (no longer available online)
21/11/17 NEWSGRA (online) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" - (no longer available online)
21/11/17 ne2y news (online) - New scanner like 100 MRIs in a single developed in Aberdeen (no longer available online)
21/11/17 Phyla Philly (Philadelphia link to BBC story ) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" (no longer available online)
21/11/17 NEWSIFI (link to BBC story) - New scanner "like 100 MRIs in one" developed in Aberdeen (no longer availabel online) 21/11/17 50 Wire (United States link to The Times story) - Scanner said to be like 100 MRIs in one
21/11/17 Le Quotidien Du Medicin - Imagerie médicale en cancérologie L'IRM à champs cyclés, une nouvelle technologie en cours de <<blindage>>
13/03/17
Tam Tam News - A Mede l'eccellenza tecnologica
08/01/17
2016
Science Magazine - Un nouveau type d'IRM plus performant
01/11/16
L'USINE NOUVELLE - Une IRM moins couteûse et plus précise
14/07/16
Industrie Mag.com - Ameliorer le diagnostic médical par IRM
11/07/16
Journal International de Médecine - Beintot une IRM moins chere et plus performante?
09/07/16
News Press Agency - Améliorer le diagnostic médical par IRM et réduire le coût des soins
08/07/16
Techno-Science.net - Améliorer le diagnostic médical par IRM et réduire le coût des soins
07/07/16
Aberdeen Press and Journal - New MRI scanners to give better results 22/01/16 Aberdeen Evening Express - £5 million grant to help create new MRI scanners 21/01/16 The National - £5M boost for scanners
22/01/16
- Meetings and Events
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IDentIFY and Aberdeen Bio-Medical Imaging Centre Symposium
Events hosted and attended by the IDentIFY partners.
2019
- November - Italian Association of Medical Physics Invited Lecture
- October - IDentIFY and ABIC Symposium
- October - Aberdeen Final Face-to-Face Meeting
- ESMRMB Conference 2019
- June - IPEM John Mallard Lecture - Liverpool
- May - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care visits FFC-MRI scanner
- March - Pavia Face-to-Face Meeting
- March - European Research Scottish Parliament Event
2018
- October - Helsinki Face to Face Meeting
- July - Relaxometer Installation in Grenoble
- March - Aberdeen Face to Face Meeting and Mid-Term Workshop
- March - Mid-Term Symposium
2017
- June - Mikolajki Face to Face Meeting
- January - Torino Face to Face Meeting
2016
- September - Grenoble Face to face Meeting
- January - Aberdeen Start up Meeting