Biomedical Imaging Technology Study Section [BMIT]

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The Biomedical Imaging Technology [BMIT] Scientific Review Group reviews grant applications involving basic, applied, and pre-clinical aspects of the design and development of medical imaging system technologies, their components, software, and mathematical methods for studies at the cellular, organ, small or large animal, and human scale. Emphasis is on the technology development but extends to the science of image formation, analysis, evaluation and validation, including image perception, and integration of imaging technologies. Specific areas covered by BMIT:

  • Component technologies used in the design, development, implementation, testing and application of imaging systems, such as: image detectors and related energy conversion devices, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation detectors, magnets and coils, and other technologies used in devices to acquire medical image data from various modalities.
  • Physics and mathematics of medical imaging devices and systems for hardware and software development: application of methods of applied mathematics for solving inverse problems using iterative, non-iterative, deterministic and probabilistic approaches; and analysis of complex dynamical systems.
  • Methods of processing and presenting medical images: display, computational resources for reconstruction, registration, segmentation, visualization, and analysis of 2-, 3-, and 4- (or higher) dimensional data sets from various modalities.
  • Development of image-based methods and strategies to characterize tissue or for the support of image-guided surgical or physical interventions that require high performance computing and display of images for interactive man-machine environments that simultaneously, or sequentially, diagnose, plan, treat, update, and follow-up.
  • Methodology for validating medical imaging systems including medical-image-observer performance: vision modeling, metrics, calibration, standards, statistical methods, and simulation of an ideal observer using principles of psychophysical experimentation.


Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Medical Imaging [MI]
Clinical Molecular Imaging and Probes [CMIP] 
Clinical Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration [CNN]
Radiation Therapeutics and Biology [RTB]
Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences [CICS]



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