Record KTH donation to support advanced medical imaging
A major private donation to KTH—one of the largest in the university’s history—will be devoted to development of a new centre for high technology medical imaging.
Plans call for the new technology venture to be in place at the Karolinska University Hospital in the Stockholm suburb of Flemingsberg by the spring of 2012. The Stockholm County Council will further support the project by funding a new professorship in the field of image processing.
“This will provide resources in the form of computer tomography, a magnetic resonance imaging facility, a PET camera and programmable ultrasound equipment,” says Lars-Ake Brodin, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Dean of the KTH School of Technology and Health in Flemingsberg.
The image centre is designed to foster research collaboration such as the development of team medical care and technical training. The investments will consolidate existing collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, the hospital and KTH.
The SEK 70 million (USD 11 million) donation from Kerstin and Rune Johansson was made public last spring.
For more information: Lars-Ake Brodin, +46-8-790 48 69; lars-ake.brodin@sth.kth.se.
Katarina Ahlfort