Profile
- Teaching medical students, biomedical engineering students, FaGes, and radiographers
- Currently performing 20 self-initiated studies, 12 cooperation studies, and supporting ca. 180 ongoing clinical studies
- Research topics include artificial intelligence (AI), contrast media, multiparametric imaging, advanced image analysis, structured reporting, digitalization of workflow, non-invasive tissue characterization with multiparametric MRI, and Photocounting-CT
- Innovation: aiming at imaging biomarkers for prevention, AI-driven diagnostics, therapy response prediction, image-guided navigation during an intervention, as well as treatment and workflow planning
External Partners
University of Basel; University of Heidelberg; ETH Zurich and EPFL/CHUV Lausanne; Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy; University College London (UCL), United Kingdom; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Swiss Working Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK), Bern; Switzerland Innovation Park, Biel/Bienne; Mechanical Systems Engineering, EMPA Dübendorf; Berner Fachhochschule (BFH); Lindenhofspital, Bern
Grants
- SNSF Grant – Project funding: Unraveling the secrets of Gadolinium based contrast agents trafficking across the blood-brain barrier after enhanced MRI examination, Prof. Heverhagen, Dr. Nico Ruprecht, Prof. Britta Engelhardt
- SNSF Grant - Automatic and patient-specific 3D MRI models of hip cartilage and labrum - a morphological and biochemical analysis for improved surgical decision making, Dr. Steppacher S, Dr. Florian Schmaranzer
- SNSF Grant – 2.0 MR-Eye: Towards a consensual magnetic resonance imaging protocol of the human eye, Prof. Jessica Bastiaansen
- Subcommittee Grant of the European Society of musculoskeletal radiology (ESSR) – Deep learning for automatic bone segmentation of the pelvis using MRI with T1 VIBE DIXON for FAI patients, Dr. Till Lerch, Dr. Florian Schmaranzer
- RSNA Trainee Research Prize – The award –winning scientific presentation examines the measurement of femoral antetorsion and compared it with CT and MRI, Dr. Till Lerch
- Insel group – Nachwuchsförderungs-grant - Pneumothorax Risk Reduction in CT-guided Lung Biopsy- Effect of Fluid Application in the Pleural Cavity and the Gravitational Effect of Pleural Pressure – A Randomized Controlled Trial, Dr. Michael Brönnimann
