U of Wisconsin radiology big on partnerships with industry
On the heels of GE and Partners Healthcare announcing their collaboration on artificial intelligence beginning with radiology comes a longish look at the decades-long relationship between GE and the University of Wisconsin.
“Since the 1980s, GE has supported research into imaging technologies at UW-Madison,” the school’s news department reports. “The latest agreement, a 10-year, $34 million contract, began in 2012 to fund radiology and medical physics researchers, who work on campus” with the company’s newest CT, PET and MRI scanners.
The article includes a rundown of projects UW-Madison has going on with GE and other healthcare vendors. Ongoing collaborations involve breast MRI, video digital subtraction angiography, thin-slice/low-dose CT, new PET tracers and MR “calipers.”
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