Institute News

In honor of Prof. Dr. Bernd Fischer (1957–2013) Fraunhofer MEVIS and the Universität zu Lübeck will hold a memorial symposium on 10 October 2014 from 2.00 pm at the main lecture hall of the University. We want to honor his scientific achievements and commemorate a special person.

In Bremen on Thursday, June 5, 2014, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board (Kuratorium) met for the sixth time. The members of the Advisory Board praised the positive developments at Fraunhofer MEVIS and articulated their appreciation and thanks to the institute’s personnel.

Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Federico von Samson-Himmelstjerna received the Summa Cum Laude Merit Award 2014 at the Joint Annual Meeting of the ISMRM-ESMRMB held from May 10 to 16 in Milan, Italy. He received the prestigious award for his work “Time efficient and robust perfusion measurement using Walsh-reordered time encoded pCASL”.

On June 4, Fraunhofer MEVIS will mark the new leadership by holding a technically oriented open house event for interested visitors.

The first biannual meeting of the EU-funded project CARDIOPROOF is held at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen on April 8. At the meeting the project partners provide an overview of the work carried out in the first six months of the project.

Fraunhofer MEVIS presented current work on neurosurgical planning at kick-off event for the Science Year 2014 in Berlin. Many visitors, among others, German Federal Minister of Research Prof. Johanna Wanka and the President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Prof. Reimund Neugebauer, could interactively explore at an exhibit the anatomy, important functional areas and nerve fiber connections in the human brain.

A W3 professorship in applied mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics and Image Computing at the University of Lübeck has been posted.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is presenting itself in many ways at the 99th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) from December 1-6 in Cicago. This year for the first time also at the shared exhibition stand at the German Pavilion (booth 2965-E) in the Lakeside Center.

Professor Ron Kikinis, Member of the Fraunhofer MEVIS Kuratorium and Head of the Surgical Planning Lab at Harvard Medical School, received the honorary membership of the „Deutschen Gesellschaft für Computer‐ und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie“ (CURAC) in a public session on November 28, 2013.

Fraunhofer MEVIS and Fraunhofer IBMT are presenting the joint MARIUS project (MAgnetic Resonance Imaging Using Ultrasound – systems and processes for multimodal MR imaging) at the MEDICA 2013 trade fair in Düsseldorf (Nov 20-23) at the joint Fraunhofer booth (Hall 10, Booth F05). The concept and an initial demonstrator will be shown there.