I have been announcing it for a while, and now my book ‘From Neurology to Methodology and back: an introduction to clinical neuroengineering’ can finally be ordered directly from the Springer website and from many online bookstores. I have ordered a few copies myself and the book has really turned out nice: it is bound in a hard cover and includes more than a hundred large figures of which most are in full colour. I hope many of you will be enthusiastic about it and use it to expand your own knowledge or to teach your students. Let me know what you think! I am working on a set of exam questions now, which will be available in a couple of months from this website for teachers/professors only.
Today I received the cover of my book ‘From neurology to methodology and back: an introduction to clinical neuroengineering’. Early birds can already preorder from the Springer site or several other online bookstores. I expect the proofs early September and if everything goes well, the book will be available by the end of September or early October. Also check out the Springer site for scope and contents: this book is exclusive in its translational approach to clinical neuroengineering. Each chapter is based on a unique case study. Diseases presented range from epilepsy, brain tumors and cerebrovascular diseases to tremor, MS and neuromuscular diseases.
The Department of Neurology of the University Medical Center Groningen invites applicants at the MA level for a two-year research position in Clinical Neuroengineering with the possibility to extend the position to a four-year PhD project.
The closing date for application is: December 15, 2010. The position will start as soon as possible.
Further information: download this pdf
On june 18, 2009 we celebrated the 60 year anniversary of the department of Clinical Neurophysiology in Groningen with a scientific symposium that was attended by almost 200 people. The symposium was centered around the increasing role of clinical neurophysiology in the academic hospital of today and the near future, with talks by Mart van Lieburg, Dennis Mc Farland, Machiel Zwarts, Michiel Staal, Jan Willem Pott, Andre Aleman, John Rothwell and myself. Furthermore, in 8 hands-on workshops attendants got a chance to get acquainted with state-of-the-art techniques such as intra-operative neuromonitoring, nerve and 3D vascular ultrasound and polysomnography.
Additionally, we presented our book on the history of clinical neurophysiology in Groningen 'Signalen van prikkeling' and premiered the new promotional movie of our department. This day was a great success.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have succeeded in making a small portable nuclear magnetic resonance probe, which is made and marketed by the New-Zealand based company Magritek (Technisch Weekblad, 19-07-08). The diameter of the probe is 17 cm and the earth's magnetic field is used to generate a polarising field of 18.8 mT, allowing for applications in material science and food and nutrition (as long as the sample is maximally 7.5 cm in diameter). Magritek itself promotes the system as a hands-on teaching and training tool for MRI and NMR. They provide an interestingbrochure showing that the Terranova-MRI system allows a range of experiments using spin echo, gradient echo or projection reconstruction methods in 1D, 2D and 3D. If the system comes at a reasonable price it would be great for introductory MRI courses.
Surface renderings of a mandarin (32 x 32 x 32 pixels) with 2D cross-sections shown to the right. Total imaging time was four hours with an isotropic FOV of 110 mm