Phd Student to work on the development of abdominal MRI

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AMC Medical Research B.V. Phd Student, Amsterdam, 1100 DD (Noord-Holland)

The department of Radiology of the Academic Medical Centre is looking for a PhD student who will be working on the development of abdominal MRI.

Recently the Radiology department has started a research project on molecular imaging of abdominal diseases.

Initially the focus will be on quantification of large bowel motion in volunteers.

These data will be used for implementing and optimising bowel motion correction for dynamic imaging of the bowel.

Furthermore the candidate will focus on the development of abdominal MR-sequences, e.g. MR contrast agent quantification and Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE) MRI.

The department of Radiology is equipped with two 1.5 Tesla scanners and one 3.0 Tesla scanner.

In 2007 an open 1.0 Tesla scanner will be installed.

The research team consists of PhD students, physicists and radiologists.

The research will be carried out in collaboration with Philips Research and the department of Pathology of the VU Medical Center.

Requirements Required education/skills

The candidate should have a MSc degree in physics, biomedical engineering, biomedical imaging science or a closely related subject.

Prior experience in both scientific research and MR sequence programming is desirable.

We expect that the candidate is highly interested in doing research in a challenging medical research topic.

Good communication skills and an ability to work in teams are required

Workfield(s):

Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers(Scientific discipline: Health)

Organization AMC Medical Research B.V.

Conditions of employment Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2000 - 2500

Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2482

Employment basis: Temporary for specified period

Duration of the contract: 4 years

Maximum hours per week: 36

Additional conditions of employment:

The appointment will be fulltime and for a period of 4 years. Gross monthly salaries range from € 1.937,- in the first year to € 2.482,- in the last year of appointment.

The contract will be signed at AMC Medical Research B.V.

Application You can apply for this job before 01-03-2007 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:

AMC Medical Research B.V.

J1A-229

M.C. van der Meer

Postbus 22660

1100 DD Amsterdam

Netherlands

E-mail: secretariaat [at] amc.uva.nl

When applying for the position of Phd Student to work on the development of abdominal MRI mention the vacancy number AT070204.

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