The overall goal of MI Lab is to facilitate cost efficient health care and improved patient outcome through innovation in medical imaging, and to exploit the innovations to create industrial enterprise in Norway.

MI Lab attended the technoport technology festival in Trondheim 17.-20. october. The norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg visited our exhibition and was impressed by what he saw. Watch film clip (by local TV station TV Adressa, norw. speech):"Most exciting exhibition at technoport"

4D parasternal ultrasound recording of the left ventricle. GE Vingmed Ultrasound

Neuro surgery: The patient has a brain tumor (yellow). BOLD fMRI and DTI are showing motor cortex for tongue movement (gray) and pyramid tracts for motor cortex (red). NTNU MR Center

The MI Lab host, NTNU, offers a unique research environment in MRI and Ultrasound, combining an internationally recognised scientific track record with a strong industrial background and a close integration between technology researchers and medical doctors in the university hospital (St. Olavs Hospital). Moreover, three of the MI Lab partner companies - GE Vingmed Ultrasound, Mison, and FAST - won the European Information Society Technology (IST) Prize for their products in 1995, 2002 and 2004 respectively.

A main asset for MI Lab is research integration with the users in St. Olavs Hospital. The key to MI Lab success is the iterative process between innovations in technology and innovations in medical applications of the new technology. This is a prerequisite for translation of new technology into new clinical practice, and for success of new products and applications in the international market.

The Norwegian Research Council appointed in 2006 fourteen Centres for Research-based Innovation (the Norwegian abbreviation is SFI) to enhance the capability of Norwegian industry to innovate by focusing on long-term research in close alliances between research-intensive enterprises and prominent research groups in the universities. MI Lab is one of three in the area of medicine and has a yearly budget of app. 40 MNOK for the 8 year period 2007-2014.