Klinik für Radiologie - Medizinphysik

A. Interventional MRI

1. Active catheter tracking
2. Safety of active devices
3. Imaging of passive iron-oxide markers
4. Device tracking with automatic detection of imaging markers

B. Functional High-field MRI

1. Cerebral metabolic rate (CMR) O₂ measurements with ¹⁷O MRI
2. Renal oxygenation mapping with ¹⁷O MRI
3. Imaging protocols for functional studies in oncology
4. Dynamic imaging of the vocal fold oscillation

C. Advanced Imaging Concepts

1. Concurrent Excitation and Acquisition (CEA)
2. MRI of Ancient Remains
3. Artificial Intelligence Tools for MRI in Oncology

2024

Samantha Hickey: Awarded the Poster Award (1^st 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 Biology, October 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. https://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

Gruppenleiter
Prof. Dr. Michael Bock

Administrative Assistentin
Oksana Chikh

Post-Docs
Dr. Johannes Fischer
Dr. Ute Ludwig
Dr. Ali Özen
Dr. Simon Reiß

Doktoranden*innen
Reza Aghabagheri
Eric Arbes
Jakob Gerlach
Deepa Darshini Gunashekar
Samantha Hickey
Paula Jordan
Shuai Liu
Zining Liu
Lisa Regler
Felix Spreter
Kian Tadjalli Mehr
Nan Yin

Masterstudenten
Maximilian Machauer
Tobias Stepanek

Bachelorstudent
Keine

Gastwissenschaftler
Keine

Academische Institutionen

Industriepartner

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