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Nils Plähn wins the Röntgen-Prize
Every year, the Physics Institute of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Würzburg awards the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Prizes to the best students (top 10%). This year, Nils Plähn, PhD candidate at the QIS lab, was among its recipients. Congratulations!! Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 -1923), 1st Nobel Prize winner for physics […]
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QIS Lab joins the Cardiovascular Research Cluster Bern
We are extremely excited to join this effort! The Cardiovascular Research Cluster Bern (CVRC) was established for all UniBE and Inselspital members with an interest in cardiovascular research. The goal is to promote the cardiovascular research teams in Bern as leaders in the understanding of cardiovascular (patho)physiology and in the development of approaches to reduce disease […]
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Dr. Eva Peper hops on the editorial board of JMRI – Congratulations!
Dr. Eva Peper of the QIS LAB becomes part of the editorial board of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI). She will serve on the board in the capacity of trainee deputy editor.
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US patent granted for our MRI innovations
For our MRI developments, that build on the use of phase-cycled bSSFP MRI acquisitions to determine tissue fractions within a voxel, a US Patent was granted on May 22nd 2022. Congratulations to the inventors Giulia Rossi, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert and Jessica Bastiaansen. These exciting findings form the basis of the research of QIS LAB, […]
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Testing Coffins for Team Building
QIS LAB attended the Museum Night in Bern. One of the many interesting interactive experiences was “Probeliegen im Sarg”, or, testing coffins. Being patient is a valuable asset for a scientist, while lying motionless may come in handy when volunteering for MRI scans.
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Sharing Tips & Hurdles in grant applications in Greece!
Jessica Bastiaansen talked about “Tips and Hurdles in grant applications” in beautiful Thessaloniki in Greece. The session was organized during the EMIM, the annual meeting of the European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI).
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QIS LAB expansion!
We are excited to welcome Dr. Eva Peper to our team!
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Congratulations to Nils and Adèle for receiving the ISMRM Educational Stipend
Nils Plähn and Adèle Mackowiak have received an Educational Stipend from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) to attend the meeting in London in 2022. Congratulations to the both of you! We look forward to hear about your research!
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New PhD students arrival
Nils Plähn and Berk Açikgöz have started as PhD students in the QIS Lab! We are excited to have you on the team! They will be enrolled as graduate students within the Biomedical Engineering section of the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB).
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New publication on exchange rate quantification
Congratulations to Nils Plähn for publishing his MSc thesis work on “T1-independent exchange rate quantification using saturation- or phase sensitive-water exchange spectroscopy“ Highlights of the publication New spectroscopic methods for quantification of exchange rates are proposed T1-dependence of the measured signal is reduced to a constant factor, resulting in an easy to fit model The […]
