GE HealthCare (GEHC) and the Stanford Medicine Department of Radiology are renewing their research collaboration to establish a Center of Excellence spanning MR, CT, molecular imaging, AI, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and interventional radiology.
Research programs will include advanced MRI acquisition and reconstruction methods across neuro, cardiac, breast, body, and pediatric imaging, as well as AI-driven initiatives in image evaluation, protocoling, and scheduling. Stanford and GEHC will also collaborate on clinical evaluation of the latter's Photonova Spectra photon-counting CT system, recently cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and on clinical evaluation of new total body PET/CT technology, the organizations said.
The collaboration has produced 153 funded research projects led by 44 Stanford faculty principal investigators, 184 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and 66 licensed patents, according to GEHC. Stanford previously contributed research that helped develop GEHC's Sonic DL deep-learning technology for cardiac MRI and helped shape clinical features in the recently FDA-cleared Signa Sprint, Signa Bolt, and Signa One MRI systems.
