Department of Radiology - Medical Physics

Group Leader:                             

                                                      apl. Prof. Dr. Valerij G. Kiselev

Post-Docs:                                   

                                                      Dr Elias Kellner

                                                      Dr. Marco Reisert

PhD Students:                             

                                                      Shi Jia Teo

Former Members:                      

                                                      Dr. Bibek Dhital 

                                                      Dr. Peter Gall  

                                                      Dr. Birgitte Fuglsang Kjølby  

                                                      Dr. Björn Kreher  

                                                      Dipl. Phys. Alexander Ruh

                                                      Dr. Susanne Schnell

                                                      Dipl. Phys. Stefanie Schwenk  

                                                      Dr. Infor. Henrik Skibbe

                                                      Dr. José Solera

                                                      Dr. Astrid Frøhlich Staanum

                                                      Dr. Matthias Weigel  

Research Areas

The ultimate goal of our research is to probe cellular structure of living biological tissues (the so-called tissue microstructure) non-invasively using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). For us, the currently most promising probe of tissue microstructure is diffusion of water molecules in the complex cellular environment. Also informative are the signal relaxation and the frequency shift. Our work includes a big portion of theoretical development towards understanding how features of cellular structure and function are reflected in the MRI signal. Our research spans the range between physics-type experiments with artificial samples to real clinical measurements. MRI measurement techniques developed in our group are tailored in agreement with theory to provide tractable experimental data for detecting specific microstructural features.

We are organically united with the Postprocessing Group to respond to the challenge of the ill-posed inverse problem of finding relevant microstructural features of living tissues given measured data.

All clinically relevant methods are validated in collaboration with our clinical partners.