The Action
In Europe, 50,000 new cases of glioma occur each year, and this number is expected to rise with the ageing population.
- The scattered research landscape in which advanced MRI is being developed for glioma imaging.
- The limited presence of advanced MRI research in established consortia for clinical work and research in glioma.
This COST Action aims to build a pan-European and multidisciplinary network of international experts in glioma research, patient organisations, data scientists, and MR imaging scientists by uniting the glioma imaging community within Europe and progressing the development and application of advanced MR imaging for improved decision making in diagnosis, patient monitoring, and assessment of treatment response in clinical trials and clinical practice.
This COST Action will bring Europe to the global forefront on glioma imaging research, by providing recommendations and open-access software tools that will accelerate the bench-to-bedside translation of advanced MRI techniques. These scientific developments will further the understanding of glioma pathophysiology facilitating scientific breakthroughs in novel therapies and improve personalised patient management ultimately increasing the quality of life of glioma patients.
