Funded by: BMWi ZIM

Period: 08/2009 - 09/2011

The intelligent toilet is targeted to daily monitoring of patients suffering from dementia. While they might forget to take measurements with conventional devices, the "call of nature" ensures use of the sensors embedded in the intelligent toilet.

Funded by: German Federal Ministry of Research (BMBF)

Period: 01/2009 – 08/2013

This project aims at the development of a pressure-controlled liquor drainage system that can be fully implanted.

Supported by: START Nachwuchsprogramm der Medizinischen Fakultät, RWTH Aachen

Period: 08/2008 - 08/2010

Within this project, a large animal model for research in implantable intracranial pressure sensors is investigated and established.

Supported by: EU (IP, 7th framework)

Period: 03/2008 – 01/2013

This large integrated EU project aims at a technology-supported solution for cardiovascular disease management incorporating two feedback loops. The first loop is patient-centered and aims at autonomous delivery of therapy employing proper automatic decison support to the chronic patient. The second, cascaded loop involves medical staff and allows to tune and adapt the therapeutic scheme based on the actual therapeutic results.

The overall goal is to improve the delivery of therapy for cadiovascular diseases and to reduce the costs of health care. The project unites 18 partners from industry and academia and has an overall budget of 20,7 Mio. € .

Supported by: Manfred-Sauer-Stiftung

Period: Herbst 2007 - Sommer 2008

The goal of this project is to develop a technique for measuring the urine volume inside the bladder of paraplegic patients. Together with clinical partners from the University of Heidelberg, MedIT is conducting a preclinical trial in paraplegic patients and healthy volunteers.

Supportet by: 2. Exzellenakademie Medizintechnik "Perioperatives Monitoring"

Period: 10/2007 - 09/2008

Electric impedance  tomography offers the opportunity to functionally image both ventilation- and perfusion-in-duced changes in transthoracic impedance. However, changes in impedance due to ventilation are ca. 10 times larger than those induced by perfusion. Thus, often perfusion is hidden by the larger signal contents of venti-lation.

The aim of this project is to develop algorithms to seperate these two sources and to create a method for regional ventilation and for regional perfusion imaging.

Supported by: 2. Exzellenakademie Medizintechnik "Perioperatives Monitoring"

Period: 09/2007 - 08/2008

Magnetic impedance measurements are contact-free and bear the potential to monitor heart and lung without cabling.  To increase robustness and measurement accuracy as compared to single coil systems, in this DFG funded project a planar multi-coil measurement system acting as a planar magnetic tomograph is developed and  tested

Suppported by: Holste Stiftung der RWTH Aachen

Period: 08 /2007 - 08/2008

This project aims at developing an implant prototype which allows to measure intracranial pressure and body acceleration and to transmit these data to the outer world.

Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Period: 08/2007 - 07/2010

The DFG funded "Smart Life Support" is a joint research effort of six engineering institutes and clinics from RWTH Aachen University. The overall goal is the development of methods for automatic control of life supporting machines. It consists of three joint projects, namely “PhysioMod”, “SmartECLA” and “HeartControl”.

MedIT is active in two of these projects. The goal of the project “HeartControl” is to develop strategies for control of blood flow in ventricula assist devices (VAD) and total artificial hearts (TAH).

By contrast, "Smart-ECLA" deals with patient-adaptive con-trol of gas and blood flow in extracorporal lung assist devices.

Funded by: BMBF

Period: 03/2007 – 03/2010

This project aims at developing a textile, wearable measurement system that allows to monitor nutrition and hydration status (the Aachen “Thirst Sensor”).

The NutriWear system is meant to allow long term measurements of elderly patients and  will be optimized regarding robustness in work and day-to-day life applications.