The Interventional Centre

About Us

12.04.2010 Main Goals and Objectives|Organization|How to find us|

The Interventional Centre is a research and development centre for medcial imaging, image guided and minimally invasive therapy at Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway and Faculty of Medicine at University of Oslo. The centre was established in 1996 to create a link between clinical practice, applied-, and basic research in the fields pertaining to minimally invasive and image guided therapy.

The Centre has the following tasks:

Develop new procedures
Develop new treatment strategies
Compare new and existing strategies
Optimizing and development of advanced imaging techniques
Study the social, economic, and organisational consequences of new procedures on health care
Administration of radiation protection for all departments in the hospital

Strategy

The Interventional Centre is a research and development resource for all the clinical and laboratory departments at Oslo University Hospital.
The Centre shall actively offer similar services to the health care community in Norway outside the hospital.
The Interventional Centre shall work as a link between technology institutions (commercial and academic) and the clinical medical environment in the hospitals.
The Interventional Centre shall promote and work actively to protect new knowledge and facilitate commercial exploitation.

Areas of activity

MR guided intervention and surgery
X-ray, CT, ultrasound, video-guided interventions and surgery
Robotics and simulators
Biosensors, data management and communication
Physics in MR, CT, X-ray, US, PET and nuclear medicine

Facilities

The Centre has a unique architectural structure. In the three suites advanced imaging equipment was integrated in an operation room environment. In 2007 all advanced imaging equipment was renewed. In the combined surgical and radiological suite, the conventional angiographic equipment was substituted by the Siemens Zeego system, based on robotic technology and containing new advances in imaging and functionality. Our MRI suite was completely rebuilt into a dual room suite where a 3 T MR was installed in one room beside a state of the art OR. The two rooms were separated by a sliding door, allowing surgery with standard equipment and intermittent MRI imaging. In the videoscopy room all systems were replaced by Olympus HD equipment.

Organisation model

The Interventional Centre is an independent hospital department. The Head of department reports directly to the CEO of the Clinic for Diagnostics and Intervention. A National Advisory board with representatives from all universities and university hospitals in Norway and the main departments at Rikshospitalet monitors and gives advice on research and activity. In 2010 the Interventional Centre has a cross-disciplinary staff of 45 employees including doctors, nurses, radiographers, physicists and engineers employed by other departments worked regularly at the Centre while a large number of medical staff from most departments in the hospital worked at a less regular basis at the Centre. The staff includes university-employed professors from

Matrix organisation

In order to facilitate effective execution of cross-disciplinary projects, the personnel and equipment at the Centre were allocated to four sections in a matrix organisation. Each section is headed by a section manager. Each project has a project manager and the project manager reports to the section manager in charge of the project. The head of department and the section managers constitute the management group where new projects are approved. Both the equipment and the staff are available as a common resource for departments and research groups aiming at developing and quality assessment of new methods.

Organisation chart

Organisation chart

Map

IVC Map

Rikshospitalet University Hospital

Information in Norwegian

English is the main language in this web portal. Some information is also available in Norwegian Norwegian text

Spin-off-, and collaborating companies

Donations to Medical Research

The Interventional Centre receives donations to medical research. Questions related to donations can be sent to head of department professor Erik Fosse.