EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Smart Medical Imaging at King's College London and Imperial College London

医学成像通过提供非侵入性诊断、指导以及对疾病治疗和理解的无与伦比的监测，为医疗保健做出了重大贡献。当今已有一套多模式成像模式可用，扫描仪硬件技术不断进步，高场、混合、实时和手持成像进一步推动了技术边界的发展；此外，造影剂和放射性示踪剂的新发展为设计更具靶向性的分子成像探针开辟了令人兴奋的新途径。传统上，探头的各个成像组件和对比机制、采集和重建以及分析和解释都是单独讨论的。然而，这在原本高度协同的学科之间制造了不必要的竖井，我们目前在伦敦国王学院和帝国理工学院医学成像专业的EPSRC CDT已经开始成功挑战。我们的新CDT将通过将不同的成像学科和临床应用与基于互补合作和新研究方向的跨学科研究联系起来，进一步推动这一点，这在五年前是不可能的。通过一个全面、综合的智能医学成像培训计划，我们将培训下一代医学成像研究人员，这些研究人员需要通过所谓的“智能”成像技术充分发挥医学成像的潜力。为了实现这一雄心勃勃的目标，我们开发了四个相互关联的新科学主题：人工智能成像、智能成像探测器、新兴成像和可负担得起的成像。与之配套的是专门的1+3培训计划，以King‘s的医疗保健技术新MRE为基础年，通过行业实习、职业指导和研讨会、创业培训以及参与国际培训计划和学术实验室的机会成为更广泛的队列的一部分，建立强大的行业联系。团队建设、负责任的研究和创新、平等、多样性和包容性以及公众参与将牢牢嵌入这一计划。从CDT毕业的学生将获得广泛的科学和可转移技能，这些技能将使他们能够在不同的医学成像子学科中工作，在更广泛的行业获得高就业能力。

Medical imaging has made major contributions to healthcare, by providing noninvasive diagnostics, guidance, and unparalleled monitoring of treatment and understanding of disease. A suite of multimodal imaging modalities is nowadays available, and scanner hardware technology continues to advance, with high-field, hybrid, real-time and hand-held imaging further pushing on technological boundaries; furthermore, new developments of contrast agents and radioactive tracers open exciting new avenues in designing more targeted molecular imaging probes. Conventionally, the individual imaging components of probes and contrast mechanisms, acquisition and reconstruction, and analysis and interpretation are addressed separately. This however, is creating unnecessary silos between otherwise highly synergistic disciplines, which our current EPSRC CDT in Medical Imaging at King's College London and Imperial College London has already started to successfully challenge. Our new CDT will push this even further by bridging the different imaging disciplines and clinical applications, with the interdisciplinary research based on complementary collaborations and new research directions that would not have been possible five years ago. Through a comprehensive, integrated training programme in Smart Medical Imaging we will train the next generation of medical imaging researchers that is needed to reach the full potential of medical imaging through so-called "smart" imaging technologies. To achieve this ambitious goal we have developed four new Scientific Themes which are synergistically interlinked: AI-enabled Imaging, Smart Imaging Probes, Emerging Imaging and Affordable Imaging. This is complemented by a dedicated 1+3 training programme, with a new MRes in Healthcare Technologies at King's as the foundation year, strong industry links in form of industry placements, careers mentoring and workshops, entrepreneurship training, and opportunities in engaging with international training programmes and academic labs to become part of a wider cohort. Cohort building, Responsible Research & Innovation, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and Public Engagement will be firmly embedded in this programme. Students graduating from this CDT will have acquired a broad set of scientific and transferable skills that will enable them to work across the different medical imaging sub-disciplines, gaining a high employability over wider sectors.