UMC Utrecht chooses MRIguidance as commercialisation partner

Parties sign collaboration agreement, working towards a radiation free bone imaging method.

Utrecht, September 29th, 2016 – UMC Utrecht and spin-off company MRIguidance have signed an exclusive licence agreement and a collaboration agreement today. The aim of the partners is to jointly bring the proprietary technology of BoneMRI to the clinic. BoneMRI is a method that allows for visualization of Bone with MRI. Until now CT and X-ray are used to visualize and characterize the bony anatomy. With this collaboration, UMC Utrecht and MRIguidance take an important step in challenging this status quo. According to Peter Seevinck, inventor and co-founder of MRIguidance, commercializing BoneMRI is the best way to bring this research to the patient. “It is evident that the use if ionizing radiation for imaging, like in X-ray and CT imaging, should be minimized, as it increasing the chance of cancer at later age, especially in young patients”, says Seevinck. “Although a lot of effort is put in low dose CT scanners, real alternatives for these methods are limited. Together with UMC Utrecht we are going to change this and offer a good alternative with BoneMRI.” In the coming four years MRIguidance and UMC Utrecht are joining forces to further develop and clinically validate the BoneMRI technology. This technology nicely fits the goals of the imaging division of the UMC Utrecht, being a worldwide, leading center for translational medical imaging and image analysis for personalized image-guided diagnosis and therapy. At the end of this four year period BoneMRI is planned to be available for clinical use in hospitals.

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MRIguidance is a spin-off company of UMC Utrecht developing the medical imaging technique BoneMRI. MRIguidance is 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.
Contact: Roel Raatgever – 0624674383 – roel@mriguidance.com

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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