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

医学成像通过提供无创诊断、指导和无与伦比的治疗监测以及对疾病的了解，对医疗保健做出了重大贡献。如今，一套多模态成像模式是可用的，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界限；此外，造影剂和放射性示踪剂的新发展为设计更有针对性的分子成像探针开辟了令人兴奋的新途径。通常，探针的单个成像组件和对比机制，采集和重建，以及分析和解释是分开处理的。然而，这在其他高度协同的学科之间创造了不必要的孤岛，我们目前在伦敦国王学院和伦敦帝国学院的医学成像EPSRC CDT已经开始成功地挑战。我们的新CDT将通过连接不同的成像学科和临床应用，以及基于互补合作和新的研究方向的跨学科研究，进一步推动这一目标，这在五年前是不可能的。通过智能医学成像的全面综合培训计划，我们将培训下一代医学成像研究人员，他们需要通过所谓的“智能”成像技术来充分发挥医学成像的潜力。为了实现这一雄心勃勃的目标，我们开发了四个新的科学主题，它们相互关联，协同作用：人工智能成像、智能成像探针、新兴成像和可负担成像。此外，还有一个专门的1+3培训计划，以国王学院新的医疗保健技术MRes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，与行业紧密联系，成为更广泛队列的一部分。团队建设、负责任的研究与创新、平等、多样性与包容性以及公众参与将牢牢嵌入该项目。从该CDT毕业的学生将获得广泛的科学和可转移技能，使他们能够在不同的医学成像子学科中工作，在更广泛的行业中获得高就业能力。

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.