Mathias Prokop

Mathias Prokop, M.D. has been appointed head of the department of Radiology at Radboud University Nijmegen in 2009 after having served as Professor of Radiology at UMC Utrecht since 2004. In 1998 he started working as an associate professor of Radiology at the University of Vienna Medical School, Austria. He trained as a radiologist at Hanover Medical School, Germany and earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.

Dr Prokop is an expert in body imaging with a special focus on multislice CT and new imaging technologies. As one of the first users of the various generations of multislice CT scanners, he is working on new and improved imaging applications, with a special focus on cardiovascular and thoracic imaging. His department is now working on technical breakthroughs in the fields of computer-aided diagnosis, robot-assisted interventions, as well functional image analysis including MR spectroscopy, perfusion imaging with MR and CT, and molecular imaging agents for lymph node diagnostics. The ultimate goal is to use technology to make the healthcare of the future more affordable by increasing automation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, thus freeing manpower for those areas in patient care in which the “human touch” is most needed.