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Experimental Radiology

At Experimental Radiology we are developing novel MRI technologies for various diagnostic and therapeutic applications in radiology, cardiology, radiation therapy, and other clinical fields.

For MRI-guided interventions rapid image acquisition methods are investigated to perform real-time imaging during the intervention. Dedicated devices such as catheters, needles and robotic assistance systems are studied so that minimally invasive interventional procedures can be performed safely and efficiently in the limited space of an MRI magnet.

In functional high-field MRI we develop dedicated radio-frequency (RF) coils for non-proton MRI (i.e., MRI with nuclei such as 19F, 13C, or 17O) in our own RF laboratory. With these coils in combination with optimized image acquisition methods tissue inflammation and oxygenation as well as tumor metabolism can be investigated, but the methods are also used to study myelin content in the brain.

Finally, advanced imaging concepts are explored such as a purely optical RF coil design (“light coils”), ultra-fast MRI of the larynx to investigate the vocal fold dynamics during singing, or the application of artificial intelligence in oncologic MRI.

2024

Samantha Hickey: Awarded the Poster Award (1st place) of the Interventional MRI Study Group at the ISMRM for her work on MR-Guided Percutaneous Interventions: Needle Insertion with a Compact Assistance System and T2-weighted Imaging in 2 Orthogonal Slices, May 2024.

2021

Ali C. Özen, Thomas Lottner, Johannes Fischer & Michael Bock: Engineering Challenge Award 2021 (1st Prize) from the MR Engineering Study Group Committee for their work on Gradient powered UV-C LED Modules

2019

Andreas Reichert: Young Investigators Award (1st Prize), European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and BiologyOctober 2019, Rotterdam, for his work on Radial Simultaneous Multi Slice Imaging for Passive Marker Needle Guide Tracking

2017

Dmitry Kurhunov's Oxygen-17 Paper is ISMRM Highlight of the Month

Kurzhunov D, Borowiak R, Hass H, Wagner P, Krafft AJ, Timmer J, Bock M. Quantification of oxygen metabolic rates in Human brain with dynamic (17) O MRI: Profile likelihood analysis. Magn Reson Med. 2017;78(3):1157-1167. http://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26476

was selected by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) as the ISMRM Highlight of the Month in September 2017.

Here is some more background information:
https://www.ismrm.org/qa-with-dmitry-kurzhunov-and-michael-bock

In addition, Dmitry Kurzhunov describes the content of the paper in a YouTube presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWp4KSz11w

2016

Prof. Dr. Michael Bock is named Associate Editor of Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics, Oct. 2016 – Sept. 2019

Maddalena Strumia: Second Prize Winner, Young Investigator Award from the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Radiology (ESMRMB) in Vienna

Dmitry Kurzhunov: ISMRM Merit Award magna cum laude, Singapore

Young Investigator Awards

Ali Caglar Özen receives Second Prize of the Young Investigator Award from the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Radiology (ESMRMB) in Edinburgh, Oct. 2015.

Inge Kalis receives the Young Investigator Award 2015 from the German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP) in Marburg, Sept. 2015.

March 2012

Mumie im Magnetfeld  
News article in UniLeben, the newspaper from the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg

Prof. Dr. Michael Bock

Group Leader

Oksana Chikh

Administrative Assistant

Dr. Johannes Fischer

Post-Doc

Dr. Ute Ludwig

Post-Doc

Dr. Ali Özen

Post-Doc

Dr. Simon Reiß

Post-Doc

Reza Aghabagheri

PhD Student

Eric Arbes

PhD Student

Jakob Gerlach

PhD Student

Deepa Darshini Gunashekar

PhD Student

Samantha Hickey

PhD Student

Paula Jordan

PhD Student

Shuai Liu

PhD Student

Zining Liu

PhD Student

Lisa Regler

PhD Student

Felix Spreter

PhD Student

Kian Tadjalli Mehr

PhD Student

Nan Yin

PhD Student

Maximilian Machauer

Master’s Student

Tobias Stepanek

Master’s Student

Christian Euchner

Bachelor’s Student

Timo Abels
Rahaf Amoura
Dirk Assmann
Fritz Bayer
Dr. Lars Bielak
Dr. Robert Borowiak
Su-Chin Chiu
Jennifer Gottwald
Dr. Jens Gröbner
Lukas Haas
Dr. Martin Haas
Serhat Ilbey
Dr. Inge Kalis
Dr. Axel Krafft
Dr. Dmitry Kurzhunov
Florian Lippus
Thomas Lottner
Dr. John M. Pavlina
Dr. David Pilutti
Jeffry Omega Prima
Alexey Protopopov
Dr. Andreas Reichert
Hamid Reza Saeidi
Robert Schall
Katharina Schleicher
Leonhard Schmieder
Hao Song
Manvitha Sreereddy
Simon Stephan
Dr. Maddalena Strumia
Yanis Taege
Dr. Agazi Samuel Tesfai
Menga Thielemann
Philipp Wagner
Tracey Webb-Kolbinger
Dr. Matthias Weigel
Tamara Zäh

Prof. Dr. Michael Bock
Director of Experimental Radiology

Tel.: +49 761 270-94140
E-Mail: michael.bock@uniklinik-freiburg.de

University Medical Center Freiburg
Dept. of Radiology · Medical Physics
Killianstr. 5a
79106 Freiburg

Oksana Chikh
Administrative Assistant
Tel.: +49 761 270-93840
E-Mail: oksana.chikh@uniklinik-freiburg.de