Stillingstittel: PhD Positions (Ref. nr.: 2902359613)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

Oslo University Hospital is Norway's largest hospital, and conducts a major portion of medical research and education of medical personnel in Norway. The hospital's charter is three-tiered, with both national, regional and local medical responsibilites in various disciplines. Oslo University Hospital employs 20 000 people and has an annual budget of NOK 22 billion.

3 PhD Positions - Division of Laboratory, The Intervention Centre, Section for Technology research

H2020:ITN Project: Wireless In-Body Environment (WiBEC) The demand for medical devices increases at a pace of 6% yearly across the globe. In the developed world this is driven by an ageing, increasingly care-demanding population, while in the developing world improved economic conditions makes use of medical devices economically feasible. Access to mobile phones and Internet has made remote monitoring of medical conditions feasible. Improved battery and communication technology makes it possible to diagnose and manage disease processes remotely enabling large scale introduction of mobile health applications. The current technical challenges in this field are deep implantation, large bandwidth to support large data rate or trade bandwidth for power, and small size (in mm) and weight (less than 60g). The purpose of this Wireless In-Body Environment (WiBEC) project is to develop a program that focuses on two very specific areas of cutting edge medical device research, the wireless pacemaker, and the wireless capsule endoscope. While exposing the PhD candidates to the commercial as well as to the clinical environments that would commercialise and clinically utilise the scientific inventions, we believe that the patients benefit from getting accurate diagnosis and follow up in their normal environments with less hospitalisation and cost. The PhD students (ESRs) will have the opportunity to work “bedside” with medical doctors and patients to fully realise the scope of their engineering projects. This will give the PhD programmes a new dimension allowing the candidates double or triple supervision from engineering, commercial and clinical faculty. The intention of this project is therefore to select and develop ESRs with long term dedication to biomedical engineering in the widest sense. We expect the ESRs to become leaders in the European effort to become a major factor in development and commercialisation of new medical technology.

Arbeidsoppgaver

• PhD Project 1: Signal processing for communication and power transmission for in-body sensor networks
• Description:
• This project aims to perform research and development of a wireless communication and power transmission framework for in-body sensor and actuator networks with the aim of targeting applications like wireless pacing/resynchronisation of the heart and wireless capsule endoscope. The scientific topics to be considered will be MIMO channels for in-body to in-body communications, sub-Nyquist sampling with quantization for data compression, and wireless power duty cycling for mission critical data transmission and sensor actuation.
• PhD Project 2: Molecular channel modelling for heart resynchronization
• Description:
• The project aims to study optimal frequencies for both communication and power transmission for pacing and resynchronization of the heart assuming that the each sensor node will be equipped with current injector and RF module. The study will establish a computer simulation platform based on NS-3 simulator to model ion currents and concentration for transmembrane potentials for resynchronization of the heart. The communication channel models from sub-cellular to heart fibre/tissue level will provide insights into appropriate amplitudes and frequencies for stimulation that will produce desired action potentials for synchronized pacing. Computer models and simulation shall be validated in-vitro testing.
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  Maksimal lønn: 0
  
  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Oslo universitetssykehus HF Rikshospital
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0372 OSLO
  
  Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Oslo
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
  Lønn valuta: NOK
  
  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
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