TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK

The Department of Health Technology at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has approximately 500 employees, including approximately 130 graduate students. The department’s activities span a wide range of topics, from imaging and sensing over digital health and modelling to pharmacology. The department participates in a large number of EU programmes as partner or coordinator.

Within Biophotonics, the core competencies include multimodal imaging using non-linear microscopy and OCT/OCM, application of ultrafast lasers for nonlinear microscopy, and clinical studies of OCT in dermatology and ophthalmology. DTU has long-standing relationships with local hospitals for clinical testing within dermatology (Roskilde Hospital, DK), ophthalmology (Glostrup Copenhagen University, DK), and urology (Herlev Hospital, DK).

DTU is coordinating PROSCOPE. The main technical tasks undertaken at DTU involve development of fibre-based solution for laser pulse delivery and development of two-photon light-sheet endoscopy (WP4), integration of these solutions into probe heads (WP5), endoscopes, and systems (WP6), and validation in clinical settings of this imaging modality (WP7).

Key persons

Peter E. Andersen has more than 20 years of experience in research and development of biomedical optics, biophotonic imaging modalities, light sources for biomedical optics, including developing OCT systems, and nonlinear microscopy. He leads the activities within biomedical optics at DTU Health Tech, and in addition, he is Deputy Head of the DTU Health Tech Graduate School (~130 PhD students). He has published more than 125 papers on biomedical optics, imaging systems, lasers and their bio-applications and holds several patents. He is editorial board member of Journal of Biomedical Optics and Journal of Biophotonics. He is currently General Chair for the Conference on lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) for 2018 and 2019. He is Fellow of OSA (2015) and Fellow of SPIE (2015). He is co-founder and organizer of the International Summer School on Biophotonics (www.biop.dk). He is co-founder and ex officio board member of the company Norlase ApS, Denmark, where he has also contributed to translating photonics into medical equipment (ophthalmology).

Peter E. Andersen is coordinator of PROSCOPE. He has vast experience in successfully coordinating European projects: In FP6, he coordinated NANO UB-SOURCES (STREP), aiming at developing light source technology for OCT. In FP7, he coordinated FUN OCT (STREP), which is developing functional extensions to OCT systems. Currently in H2020, he coordinates MIB, aiming for multimodal imaging for bladder cancer diagnosis, and FBI, an ITN educating 15 ESRs in the field of functional, biomedical imaging.

Dominik Marti earned his Ph.D. degree in 2011 in two-photon absorption and fluorescence technologies from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He joined DTU in 2014, where he works on multimodal imaging combining MPM, OCT and Raman, the discovery of label-free optical biomarkers with these modalities, and the translation thereof to clinics. He has participated in several European projects: In FP7, he took part in FAMOS, working on functional anatomical molecular optical screening. In H2020, he is part in MIB, working on implementing two-photon scanning microscopy into cystoscopy, and he leads the dissemination efforts in FBI, an ITN educating 15 ESRs in the field of functional, biomedical imaging. In PROSCOPE, he will lead the research on the two-photon lightsheet modality.