Medical Computer Science “Made in Regensburg”
The jury surrounding BioPark CEO Dr. Thomas Diefenthal, patent attorney Dr. Berthold Bettenhausen, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weber from the University of Regensburg and the vice president of Regensburg OTH Prof. Dr. Klaudia Winkler did not have an easy task in determining this year's winner from the high quality applications. Power of innovation and potential for application of the work were the criteria that were crucial in making the decision.
The price was received by Dr. Daniel Deuter from the Clinic and Polyclinic for Neurosurgery (Director: Prof. Nils Ole Schmidt) of the Regensburg University Hospital (UKR). In his dissertation under the previous professorial chair of Prof. Alexander Brawanski he developed in a working group on fluid dynamics (head Dr. Christian Doenitz) software for an imaging process for the rapid risk assessment of aneurysms (ancient Greek dilation), arterial sacs of the brain’s blood vessels. The sensitive nature of this degenerative blood vessel wall disease lies in its potential of fatal rupture (meaning formation of a tear) with consequent brain hemorrhage. Unfortunately at this point in time there are not any existing really usable models to assess the risk of rupture.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), originally derived from engineering science, represents an established method for the assessment of hemodynamics in blood vessel systems. In the research project VisKo under Prof. Lars Krenkel at the Regensburg Center of Biomedical Engineering (RCBE) numeric calculation models for combined flow and clotting properties of the blood are being developed. The RCBE is a research institution spanning faculty university to support medicine and the healthcare field. In cooperation with the hospital and the polyclinic for neurosurgery at the UKR, which has a huge history of expertise in the treatment of patients with neurovascular diseases and treats a large number of patients with this disease annually, there are optimal conditions for undertaking the research project at the hub between medical engineering and hospital. On this basis Dr. Deuter has been able to develop a CFD-Workflow, which for the first time can calculate the hemodynamics of aneurysms within 30 minutes. This allows the treating clinicians timely information for initial risk assessment for the good of the patient. Contact: daniel.deuter@klinik.uni-regensburg.de.
BioPark GF Dr. Thomas Diefenthal (right) handed over the BioPark Innovation Award 2020 to Dr. Daniel Deuter (left) Corona compliant. Copyright: BioPark Regensburg GmbH