Biomedical Engineering and Physics (onderwijs)

Our deparment provides courses within the following curricula:

Master track Physics of Life and Health

The department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics gives courses for the Master track Physics of Life and Health. Contact person for matters related to our courses is dr. Ton. van Leeuwen.

Medical Informatics

The department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics contributes to the following modules:Contact person for matters related to our courses
Dr. Henk Marquering
Phone: (020) 566 5182
E-mail: h.a.marquering@amc.uva.nl

Medicine

In addition to our contribution to the regular Bachelor’s and Master’s curricula in Medicine (‘Curius+’), we organize the facultative course ‘Techniek in de Geneeskunde’ (Technology in Medicine). This course provides Bachelor’s students an overview of recent developments in medical technology, with the aim of developing the skills required for critical appraisal of diagnostic and interventional technology and its implementation in the clinic. Subjects include the imaging modalities, radiotherapy, minimal invasive surgery and personalized integrated approaches (the human physiome). The course is part of the second year’s Medicine Bachelors program (4 ECTS on specific Thursday afternoons Sept-June), but in principle also available to other students.We provide support for 3rd year Bachelor’s students in Medicine who aim to write a Bachelor’s thesis. The thesis subjects will be made available on Blackboard, but we are open to suggestions for specific topics by students. 
We have developed computer-assisted training modules in the area of cardiovascular physics and physiology. These modules are free for you to use. The currently available modules are vascular biomechanics and hemodynamics.Contact person for matters related to our Medical Curriculum:
Prof. Dr. Ed van Bavel
Phone: (020) 566 5203
E-mail: e.vanbavel@amc.uva.nl

Physics Bachelor

The department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics gives the following courses for the Physics Bachelor program:
Contact person for matters related to our courses:
Dr. M. Aalders
Phone: (020) 566 3829
E-mail: m.c.aalders@amc.uva.nl

Our department offers the possibility for research internships (‘afstudeerplaatsen’) in a multidisciplinary environment for Bachelor and Master’s students in physics, engineering, (technical) medicine, life sciences and related disciplines. In addition, a possibility exists for tailor-made internships, based on your interests and expertise. The department hosts a large array of Master’s and Ph.D. students, forming a vivid and enthusiastic community of Dutch and international students. Below you can find a list of currently available internships.

Detection of extracellular vesicles

• Optical detection of 50 nm vesicles with flow cytometry;
• Integrating resistive pulse sensing with Raman microspectroscopy;
• 2D protein diffusion in (phospholipid) membranes
• Extracellular vesicle sorting with antibody arrays
• Flow conditions for extracellular vesicle capture
  

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Forensics science

• Infrarood spectroscopie voor datering van bloedvlekken;
• Post mortem body cooling: evaluation of a new mathematical model;

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Hemodynamics

• Development of a rat model for silent brain infarcts;
  
• Hemodynamics in the critical limb ischemia;
  
• Blood flow regulation in vascular network: a modeling study;
• Particle Residence Time in Intracranial Aneurysms;
  
• Hemodynamic turbulence: detection of complex flow patterns within intracranial aneurysms;
• Sneak routes: how well can arteriolar arcades protect tissue perfusion? Modelling the microcirculation;
  

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Medical image analysis

• Ghost Imaging: using mirror symmetry for vascular image analysis;
• Who turned out the light? Analyzing unillunated abdominal aortic aneurysms;
• Ruptured Aneurysm Detection: Biomedical Image Processing for Analyzing Hemorrhage Patterns;
  
• Dynamics of the wrist;
• The moving wrist joint;
• Hand gestures as computer mouse for 3D surgical planning;
  

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Deep learning/Artificial Intelligence/Convolutional Neural Networks

At our department we have multiple projects in which we use machine learning on medical images. Most of these projects work with histopathology images or CT images. Since this is a very active field the subjects of the artificial intelligence projects change often. Please contact Henk Marquering (h.a.marquering@amc.uva.nl) for current opportunities.

• Automatic Early Ischemic Changes Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke;

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Medical physics and obstetrics

• Computer model for acardiacus twins;

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Medicine

• Significance of carotid siphon disease;

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Optical coherence tomography

• Optical fingerprints of tissues;
• Simulating tissues for Naomi;
• PROSPECT: optical spectroscopy for prostate cancer diagnosis;
• Master's Thesis: Feasibility of Optical Coherence Tomography to Detect Esophageal Radiation Damage Study on Mice;
• Correlation between pathology and optical coherence tomography imaging of esophageal tumor extent;
  

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Spectroscopy

• Body dehydration in athletes;
• Imaging of upconverting nanoparticles in breast cancer tumors using the CAM model;
  

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Dosimetry

• EPID dosimetry: program especially for master physics students on the research on the physics of dose reconstruction.

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Science without Borders program

We have a number of programs open for the Brazilian Science without Border program:

• Prognostic value of subdural hematoma quantification;
• Automated image processing for quantification of subdural hematoma;
  

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Other departments/institutes

Department of Radiology

• Blood flow patterns in intracranial aneurysms;

NKI

• Exploring artefacts in 4D-CT acquisition;
  
• Use of Bayesian networks in quality control of radiotherapy treatment;
  

Internships at AMOLF