Ludwig M. Auer

emeritierter Neurochirurg, Neurowissenschaftler
und Autor über politische Philosophie und Ethik

Liste der Projekte

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Für Projekt MEDNET: NEURO-EXPERT – A Database for Clinical Neurosciences, Vortrag am AANS – Meeting 1996, Minneapolis, April 27 – May 2 1996

Für Projekt AIDER: E-Health & Tele-Medicine concept in center of Excellence for Telemedicine in Austria”. Vortrag am EHTEL-TWG-2-Meeting, Trieste, 18.9.2001

Für Projekt ROBOSCOPE: Robots for Neurosurgery. Auer LM. In: Minimally Invasive Techniques for Neurosurgery. Current Status and Future Perspectives, eds.: D.H. Hellwig, B.L. Bauer, Springer Verlag 1998, pp 243 – 49

Für  Projekt AIRBUS: Telemedicine, Vortrag am Cornell-Postgraduate Course, Salzburg, 28.7.1999


RESEARCH GRANTS SUPPORTED BY AUSTRIAN RESEARCH – FOUNDATIONS:

PROJECTS FUNDED BY „Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Österreich“
(grants at ~ € 30.000.- to 75.000.-)

  • – Nr.2989: Intravital microscopy for animal experimentation
  • – Nr.3547: same as above
  • – Nr.4953: Surgical treatment of cerebral ischemia
  • – Nr.5115: Regulation of cerebral blood volume
  • – Nr.5241: Neurophysiologic parameters during cerebral revascularisation
  • – Nr.5502: Measurement of blood flow in single pial vessels by video-techniques
  • – Nr.1926: Blood flow velocity in small superficial blood vessels

PROJECTS WITH THE AUSTRIAN DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH (State-contract):
(grants between ~ € 15.000.- and € 150.000.-)

  • Medical-bibliographical database (Cooperation with the Techn. Univ. of Graz)
  • Computer-assisted medical database (Coop. with the Radiol. Dept. Graz)
  • Digital image-processing for the development of a first PACS-system in a clinical environment (Cooperative project between Siemens, State of Austria, University of Graz)
  • Patient-data management system for neurosurgery (Cooperation with the Technical Univ. of Graz) 
  • Socio-oeconomical and structural management of clinical medicine (cooperation project with thh Institute of Indust. Economics of the University of Graz, funded by the Styrian Government).

PROJECTS FUNDED BY „Jubiläumsfonds der Österr. Nationalbank“
(funded at ~ € 35.000.- each)

  • Project 1926 „Intravitalmikroskopisch-videotechnische Registrierung der Blutströmungsgeschwindigkeit in kleinen oberflächlichen Hirngefäßen der Katze“ (Video-technical intravital microscopy for measurement of blood velocity in pial vessels of the cat)
  • Project 8321 „Hirngewebssegmentierung mit Ultraschallbildgebung“ (Segmentation of ultrasound images of the brain)

PROJECTS FUNDED BY „Fonds der Gewerblichen Wirtschaft in Österreich“

  • 2000  – Development of WWW-based database and search engine for congress abstracts in medicine (~€ 150.000.-)
  • 2001  – Development of a PC-based system for surgical simulation using virtual endoscopy and a robotic manipulator arm. (~€ 500.000.-)

Several projects funded by the County and the City of Salzburg between 1999 and 2001 (between € 7.000.- and € 150.000.-)


EU-FUNDED R&D-PROJECTS

  • 1998-2000 Brain-fMRI Functional MRI for Planning Procedures in Minimall Invasive Neurosurgery, 4th framework, BIO MED II, no.PL 950870 
  • 1998-2000 ROBOSCOPE Integration Platform for Ultrasound Image-Guided, Robot-Assisted   Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery (~€ 3,400.000.-) 4th framework, Telematics, no.4018
  • 2001-2004 AIDER Accident Information and Driver Emergency Rescue System (€ 4,883.146.-) 5th framework, IST, no.28058

All EC-funded projects are co-funded by a federal grant in Austria at ~€70.000.-


INDUSTRY-FUNDED R&D-PROJECTS

  • 2002-2003 FLIGHT-MD Telemedicine equipment and strategies for civil aviation Sponsored by AIRBUS 

MJOR  PROJECTS SINCE THE YEAR 1995  (for further project activity please see http://www.ism-austria.at)

  • 1995-2000 Virtual neuro-endoscopy and fibre-tracing from MRI-studies,
  • 1997-2002 WWW-based medical library database for digital textbooks and abstracts(in case of  interest in a detailed description of projects MMD and WebScienceLibraries, texts are available in digital format)
  • 2000-2002 Development of a centre of excellence for telemedicine (80-120 co-workers)
  • 2001-2004 Development of a telemedical rescue system for the car- accident scenario (vital parameter  sensor data transmission, estimation of injury severity) in collaboration with the car industry (Daimler Chrysler, FIAT).
  • 2002-2003 Development of an air-to-ground telemedicine service for civil aviation.
  • 2002- 2004 Sensorial- and logistic systems for telemedical management of individuals in risk scenarios.

Projects in various stages of planning and preparation

  • MEDNET Multicentre Medical Patient Data Management via an Intranet
  • M-AGENTS Multi-Agent-supported Preprint Server
  • MIM Medical information management using software agents
  • LAW & TELEMEDICINE Particular legal aspects of telemedicine
  • A X O N Mapping of cerebral fibre tracts for connectivity analysis and advanced neuronavigation in diagnosis and treatment
  • M R – ‘B I O P S Y‘, (BRAINCONSULT) European Multimodality Database of Brain Tumours for Non invasive Differential Diagnosis and Therapy Control
  • DiabData Database Management System for Health Care Quality Programs in Diabetology
  • TELE-DIAGNOST Estimation of arterial blood pressure from the photo-plethysmographic signal.