Guillaume Cheng wins the award for best MSc thesis in Biomedical Engineering

Guillaume Cheng won the award for the best MSc thesis “with an applied or technologically innovative focus“. The award is part of the Master program in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern. His MSc thesis was entitled “The Influence of Fat Suppression on Parametric Mapping in MRI”. The award ceremony will be on May 2nd during the annual BME day (program).

Guillaume conducted his MSc thesis in the QIS lab on the topic of water excitation RF pulse development in the context of lipid-insensitive relaxometry. His results will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in Honolulu in May 2025. His talk is entitled “Water excitation may induce signal asymmetries in the bSSFP profile which affects parametric mapping” and will be presented on Monday, 12 May 2025, 15:21.