MRIguidance secures €1.5 million investment round

Growth money for BoneMRI: a single imaging exam to image all human tissues without radiation.

Utrecht, October 16th, 2018 – Spin-off company of the UMC Utrecht, MRIguidance has received a seed investment round from health-tech investor Health Innovations and a strategic informal investor for the development and the market roll-out of BoneMRI. BoneMRI is a software solution that enables unprecedented 3D visualisation of the bone anatomy with conventional MRI scanners, which until today were mainly used to assess soft tissues. BoneMRI allows for a one-stop-shop in medical imaging; one exam to characterize all human tissues and without making use of harmful radiation. The investment will be used for further clinical validation and market roll-out.

“Like all radiologists, I have been trained with the idea that MRI is mainly suitable for soft tissue imaging and X-ray based techniques are required to visualize bone”, according to Peter Seevinck, co-founder of MRIguidance and inventor of BoneMRI. “But during my work as a scientist in the UMC Utrecht, I was getting more and more convinced that MRI data, when acquired in the right way, contains all the information necessary to also visualize bone. I am very happy that we proved the concept in a clinical setting and with this investment we are now going to bring BoneMRI to the patient.”

For Health Innovations, MRIguidance is the second investment from their Health Innovations Fund III. Dick Sietses, partner at Health innovations says: “The BoneMRI technology will improve the quality of patient care, while at the same time reduce healthcare costs. This, combined with MRIguidance’ strong technology base, integrating AI-technology into their solutions, makes MRIguidance a perfect match for our fund.“

BoneMRI is currently being developed and clinically validated at the UMC Utrecht and several large hospitals in the Netherlands and in Belgium. “The investment gives MRIguidance a great boost and will accelerate our efforts to bring BoneMRI to the patient. We are very happy to get a strong investors team on board.” says Roel Raatgever, CEO of MRIguidance.

**************** About MRIguidance MRIguidance is a spin-off company of UMC Utrecht developing the medical imaging technique BoneMRI. MRIguidance was founded in 2016 by MR physicist Peter Seevinck, image scientist Marijn van Stralen and entrepreneur Roel Raatgever. The first research resulting in the proprietary BoneMRI technology dates back to 2013. MRIguidance is an UtrechtInc graduate company.

About Health Innovations Health Innovations is a seed investment fund that invests in young companies that make healthcare better and more affordable. Health Innovations focuses on innovative care concepts, eHealth, medical technology, Digital Health and Health Services. At the beginning of 2018 Health Innovations started with it’s third fund, Health Innovations Fund III.

Utrecht, February 2026 – MRIguidance has released a new update to BoneMRI, making the solution easier to use across the hospital workflow while expanding compatibility with scanners, systems, and IT environments.

A key feature of the release is new stitching functionality, which allows clinicians to generate combined anatomical regions of e.g. the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, into a single, continuous image, providing total spine views. This enables assessment of pathology across multiple spinal regions without switching between image series, which might improve clinical confidence by visualizing anatomical relationships in one comprehensive view, and reduce interpretation time by eliminating manual cross-referencing between sub-regions.

The update also introduces extended compatibility across imaging platforms and infrastructure. BoneMRI now supports pelvic region imaging across the full range of GE, Siemens, and Philips MRI scanners at both 1.5T and 3T. In addition, the software expands support for Enhanced DICOM processing and is now compatible with Windows Server 2025 OS via the MRIguidance Gateway.

These improvements enhance interoperability with MRI scanners and DICOM inputs, simplify coordination with hospital IT departments, and broaden anatomical and vendor coverage to support smoother clinical adoption.

The release also includes additional support and security enhancements.

The latest BoneMRI update benefits radiologists, MR technologists, IT teams, and surgeons, further strengthening BoneMRI’s role in efficient, radiation-free bone imaging across clinical workflows.

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