Department of Radiology - Medical Physics

Group Leader

apl. Prof. Dr. (RUS) Valerij G. Kiselev

Post-Docs

Dr. Elias Kellner
Dr. Marco Reisert

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. Shi Jia Teo
Dr. Matthias Weigel
Ane Zulaika Zubia

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.