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European Society for Molecular Imaging – SwyMIC day in Bern
The Swiss young Molecular Imaging Community (SwyMIC) – a young ESMI group, organizes a one-day, open-science, and networking event. WHEN? Friday 22 November 2024from 10.00h to 17.00h– with subsequent optional open-end Apéro at the Christmas Market. WHERE? Inselspital Bern, Lab building Murtenstr. 24 (Conference room EG50) WHO? The event is primarily designed for early-career investigators, but participation is in no way limited. […]
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Symposium: Novel Imaging Techniques in the Field of Ophthalmology and MR-Eye
The QIS lab joined the MR-eye symposium in Sion, which was a great success! The symposium covered the latest in MR-Eye segmentation, dynamic eye-brain imaging, and the integration of functional vision sensors with optimised MRI sequences from the experts of the domain. Through machine learning, ophthalmic segmentation and complex image analysis, the early detection of […]
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Dr. Eva Peper presented at the consortium for advancing MRI education and research in Africa (CAMERA)
Dr. Eva Peper was invited to speak at the Own Your Future Seminar Series of the Consortium for Advancement of MRI Education and Research in Africa (CAMERA). Her talk was entitled ‘Advanced MRI Techniques for Characterising Cardiovascular Blood Flow’. The vision of CAMERA is to make MRI accessible and to drive innovation to meet the […]
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PhD and Postdoctoral position on innovating quantitative MRI
We are looking for two motivated researchers who are interested in working at the intersection of engineering, physics, and medicine. The candidates will join a growing and dynamic team to push MRI further! The advertised positions are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Start date: Summer/fall 2024 in Bern, SwitzerlandApplication deadline: May 31st, 2024 […]
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SNSF Project Grant awarded to Prof. Jessica Bastiaansen
Jessica Bastiaansen was awarded an SNSF project grant entitled “Advanced lipid-insensitive MRI relaxometry for unbiased noninvasive characterization of the entire human liver” Significant shortcomings exist in the current imaging technology for assessing biomarkers of liver disease such as fibrosis. Current methods are not designed for the liver. Hence, they face challenges due to the presence […]
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CAIM Fellowship for Dr. Eva Peper
Dr. Eva Peper received the prestigious CAIM Fellowship from the University of Bern. The project is entitled “AI Acceleration of 3D Cardiac bSSFP MRI” and will start in summer 2024. Stay tuned for positions opening up!
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Welcome Yves
Yves is a student in the MSc program in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern. He will work with us on quantitative susceptibility mapping at 7T, together with Berk. We are excited to have you on the team!
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Welcome Guillaume, Janick, and Matteo
Three new Biomedical Engineering Master students have joined the QIS lab. They will be working on biomarker mapping in the human brain, fat-free relaxometry of the human liver, and free-breathing cardiac image reconstructions. Welcome to the team!
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Welcome to Kelly Bonzon and Melina Gilsing
Two new Biomedical Engineering Master students have joined the QIS lab. They will be working on the implementation of open source pulse sequences and AI tools for advanced processing and reconstruction of MRI data. Welcome to the team!
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MR-eye 2.0 – SNSF Project on novel imaging tools for the human eye
Prof. Benedetta Franceschiello was awarded an SNSF grant related to the Health Research and Wellbeing UAS and UTE call, entitled: 2.0 MR-Eye: Towards a consensual Magnetic resonance Imaging protocol of the Human Eye At the QIS lab we are partners on this project, which will be conducted at the 7T scanner at the Translational Imaging […]
