Profile
- Teaching medical students, biomedical engineering students, FaGes, and radiographers
- Currently performing 19 self-initiated studies, 11 cooperation studies, and supporting approx. 207 ongoing clinical studies
- Research topics include lung, liver, MSK, forensic, vascular, artificial intelligence, contrast media, multiparametric imaging, advanced image analysis, structured reporting, digitalization of workflow, and non-invasive tissue characterization with multiparametric MRI
- Aiming at prevention, diagnostic improvement, navigation during intervention, as well as treatment and workflow planning
External Partners
Berner Fachhochschule (BFH); Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy; Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA; Duke University Hospital, Dept. of Radiology, NC, USA; EPFL/CHUV Lausanne; ETH Zürich; Mechanical Systems Engineering, EMPA, Dübendorf; Radiological Physics, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Basel; Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), Bern; Switzerland Innovation Park, Biel; Swiss Working Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK), Bern; University of Heidelberg, Germany; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Grants
- SNSF – Advanced lipid-insensitive MRI relaxometry for unbiased noninvasive characterization of the entire human liver, Prof. J. Bastiaansen (PI). Project partners: Prof. A. Huber, Prof. V. Obmann, Prof. K. Roland and Dr. N. Violi.
- SNSF – Novel Biomechanical Markers based on dynamic biplane radiographic imaging and paraspinal muscle morphometry for enhanced decision making in the management of lumbar spinal stenosis, Prof. A. Aiyangar, Prof. Dr. C. Albers, Prof. Dr. J. Heverhagen and PD Dr. R. Schär
- SNSF – REPORT-IT - Advancing Liver Parenchyma and HCC Reporting and Classification through Multiparametric MRI and Visual Language Models, Prof. A. Huber and R. Sznitmann (PIs)
- SISF (SITEM) – The Biomechanics of Anterior Shoulder Instability: A 3D dynamic analysis, Prof. A. Aiyangar and PD Dr. K. Daneshvar
- Johanna Durmüller-Bol Foundation – Comparative study of Unilateral Lamonotomy and Spinous Process Splitting Laminotomy, Prof. J. Heverhagen, Prof. A. Aiyangar, PD Dr. Schär and PD Dr. K. Daneshvar
- BMCC – Holistic Ergometer with Smart Sensoring (HEROES), Prof. H. von Tengg-Kobligk (PI), Prof. C. Gräni, in collaboration with CSEM and BFH
- CAIM Fellowship – AI Acceleration of 3D Cardiac bSSFP MRI, Dr. Eva Peper
- SSSR Travelling Fellowship and ESSR Subcommittee Grant, Dr. Till Lerch
