NANOMA:Proposal Mansfield

Overview

The proposal "Mansfield" has been proposed as a Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES). The goal of these projects is to foster international collaboration. Mansfield was originally meant as an addition to the NSF PIRE Miroma project proposed by Northeastern University and Brigham&Women's Hospital, which did not get accepted though. It was part of the ideas developed in the NANOMA Collaboration.

The initial plan was:

• funding for US researchers to go to europe is acquired by NSF PIRE Miroma
• funding for european researchers to go to the US and Canada is funded by EU Marie Curie IRSES Mansfield

Funding Modalities

The Marie Curie IRSES grants cover travels by european researchers to international partners through a monthly lump sum. Travels from international researchers to Europe will not be funded.

Partners

• BWH - Brigham&Women's Hospital (Nobuhiko Hata)
• NEU - Northeastern University (Dinos Mavroidis)
• EPM - Polytechnique Montreal (Sylvain Martel)
• UORL - University Orleans (Antoine Ferreira)
• ETHZ - ETH Zurich (Bradley Nelson)
• UNOL - University Oldenburg (Sergej Fatikow)
• OFFIS - OFFIS e.V. Oldenburg

Proposal

The proposal deals with the following topics:

• Imaging of magnetic particles (UNOL, OFFIS, BWH, EPM)
• Recognition and tracking of magnetic particles (UNOL)
• Controller design for the magnetic propulsion of the particles (UORL, EPM)
• Navigation of the magnetic particles (BWH)
• Magnetic particle design and manufacturing (ETHZ, NEU)
• Magnetic particle magnetic actuation

The objective for these topics is to research the possibilities and foundations, and to validate the approaches in theory and experiments.

Revised task plan

• The following task plan is created based on Noby Hata and Christian Dahmen's phone call on August 23, 2010. Any input from the members of the project are appreciated.
• First Year: one post-doc each from UNOL, ETH, UORL selected, and get initial training.

Control expert from UORL visits Mntreal, Vision expert from UMOL visits BWH, Material expert from ETH visit NEU. With some delay?

• After one year of stay, they either go back to their home institution at EU, or move on to another insitutiion in North America to translate technology acquired.
• End of Year 1: All hands meeting after/before IROS, ICRA, MICCAI, BioRob, ISMRM. This all hands meeting continues as the conference moves EU and US.

1. Specific Aims #1: Material (ETH)

• Magnetic particle design and manufacturing

1. Specific Aims #2: Vision (UMOL)

• Imaging of magnetic particles
• Recognition and tracking of magnetic particles
• Navigation of the magnetic particles

1. Specific Aims #3: control (UROL)

• Magnetic particle magnetic actuation
• Controller design for the magnetic propulsion of the particles