On Tuesday 25 May 2021, B.A. de Vries will defend his PhD dissertation, entitled: ‘Advanced Imaging of Inflammation in Knee Osteoarthritis’.
- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Tuesday 25 May 2021, 13:00 - 14:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Professor Andries Querido room
- Building
- Education Center
- Location
- Erasmus MC
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a complex, whole organ, and disease with significant disability for patients. To date, the only effective treatment for knee OA is knee arthroplasty. The number of patients with knee OA is likely to increase in the future due to the increasing life expectancy. It is therefore important to understand the pathophysiology of knee OA and to optimize ways to diagnose the disease in an early stage. In this way, early diagnosis could further enable new therapies to counteract OA. This thesis focused on two main research topics; 1) the assessment of quantitative perfusion parameters within different tissues of the knee, and 2) the evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of imaging techniques for visualization of synovitis in the knee.
Due to corona, the PhD defences do not take place publicly in the usual way in the Senate Hall or in the Professor Andries Querido Room. The candidates will defend their dissertation either in a small group or online.
