Interventional Radiology

The health care system faces several major challenges. Health care costs are rising and the population is aging with an increasing number of elderly patients with multiple comorbidities. IR offers minimally-invasive therapies that are safer, cheaper and less demanding on health care resources than conventional therapies. Our mission is to develop and improve image-guided therapies that are effective and precise yet cause minimal burden on patients and the health-care system. 

Our research group focuses on translational and clinical research to leverage existing technologies and develop new approaches in the field of IR. Focus areas include the development of automated quantification and interpretation tools for complex intraprocedural data, treatment planning and evaluation of image-guided thermal ablation, transarterial cancer therapy and intra-arterial stroke treatment.

The LUMC is building a future-proof IR centre, consisting of five IR rooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including a hybrid operating theatre and angiography-CT system, and integrated research facilities to support clinical research and training programmes.

Our research team builds on strong collaborations with other researchers within the LUMC and helps to establish integrated practice units around several of the research profile areas of the LUMC. We hold partnerships with various national and international research groups to conduct multicentre prospective trials in the field of IR.  Within the MEDTECHNL project we collaborate with nearly 300 partners to develop medical technical innovations that will shape the future of health care.

The Interventional Radiology Research (IR²) group focuses on research in the field of vascular and oncological interventions. The research of the University Neurovascular Center (UNVC) group evolves around neurovascular interventions.