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            Scientifically, the institute focuses mainly on applied research and development in cooper

            clinical departments and regional manufacturers of medical and healthcare technology (ELLA
            the institute has managed to build a measurement and development laboratory for this resea
            not only with unique instruments, but also with measurement systems and products of its ow

            include the Instron system for measuring the stress characteristics of materials or protot
            devices made from them, such as reinforcements, filters or orthodontic springs and arches,
            complemented by an air-tempered chamber with a Julabo thermostat for testing materials wit

            measurement systems of our own design for measuring the stress characteristics of stents; 
            imaging system for analysing the surface properties of materials or studying more complex 

            fluorescence. The measurement systems are fully automated and computer-controlled using in
            or use the capabilities of the National Instruments modular system and LabVIEW programming
            modelling and simulation purposes, we use the mutually compatible software environments Co

            Simulink. In addition to a number of publications, our scientific work in this area has re
            of 5 utility models accepted by the Industrial Property Office in 2009, 2010 and 2014.


            In collaboration with the neurology clinic, we are involved in the development of a non-in
            sensor using the volume changes of the eyeball induced by cardiac activity, which can be u
            the hemodynamic parameters of the vascular system in the head region.


            Extensive measurements for ELLA-CS were performed in collaboration with the Institute of M
            and Corrosion Engineering at the University of Chemical Technology in Prague. These includ

            of the mechanical properties of shape memory wires subjected to thermal and chemical expos
            optimise their heat treatment technology for the production of vascular reinforcements.


            We are also cooperating with the Department of Biophysics and Physical Chemistry, Faculty 
            Charles University in the development and testing of special instrumentation for measuring
            properties of tissue samples and experimental verification of interactions of tissue reinf

            real tissues at the site of their application.

            We have also established cooperation at the international level within applied research, e

            or through cooperating partners. In the field of hyperthermia this was AMC Amsterdam, in t
            intelligent materials in dentistry the Dentistry school of University Goteborg, in the fie
            the University Amsterdam etc.


            Other research activities of the institute are also focused on medical informatics, where 
            mainly on the creation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for decision-making from

            modelling and simulation of properties and interactions of developed therapeutic products 
            with the organism and pharmacokinetics. IT specialists from our institute (MUDr. Mašín, MU
            contributed significantly to the creation and management of the faculty publication and ed

            Mefanet. Mefanet is a communication platform that brings together all medical faculties of
            and Slovak Republic for the purpose of sharing and collaboration in the creation of electr
            materials and represents, among other things, one of the European projects in which the In

            Medical Biophysics has participated in recent years. Other European projects we have worke
            LEKFYZ, aimed at deepening the professional cooperation and networking of the Institutes o
            Biophysics at the medical faculties in the Czech Republic, or the IT Medik project, where,

            to creating our own e-learning courses, we also provided IT support for course developers 
            departments.
            Last but not least, the statistical group of the Institute of Biophysics and OVT (Ing. Buk

            Krulichová, RNDr. Čermáková, Mgr. Záhora) has long been cooperating with many departments 
            and the University Hospital in statistical processing of medical data.