Institute News

On September 1, 2013, Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Dr. Christian Hansen will move to the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. There, he will undertake the role of junior professor for computer-aided surgery at the Institute for Simulation and Graphics in the Department of Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg as part of STIMULATE, the new research campus for medical technology.

In deep sorrow, we commemorate our friend and companion. Our thoughts are with his family.

In Bremen on Thursday, June 6, 2013, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Kuratorium, under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erich R. Reinhardt, met for the fifth time. In the first meeting following the departure of founder and former institute director Prof. Dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen, members of the Kuratorium praised the continuing positive developments at Fraunhofer MEVIS and articulated their appreciation and thanks to the institute’s personnel.

At the DRK in the Congress Center in Hamburg, Fraunhofer MEVIS will again take part with its own exhibition booth (J 20) at the Forum for Industry (Industrieforum).

Michael Schwenke, scientific researcher at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen, was awarded with a New Investigator Travel Award 2013, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Thermal Medicine taking place April 17-21, 2013 in Aruba. He received the award, which is sponsored by the Radiation Research Society, for his contribution: "Accounting for patient specific breathing motion in fast numerical HIFU simulations".

Dr. Christian Hansen, scientific researcher at Fraunhofer MEVIS, was awarded with the 2nd prize of the OLB Foundation Science Prize in the category ”Dissertations”. He received the award for his PhD thesis on software assistance for preoperative risk assessment and intraoperative support in liver resection surgery.

Since December 2012 the quality management system of the Fraunhofer MEVIS Project Group Image Registration in Lübeck is certified according to EN ISO 9001 and EN ISO 13485 by DEKRA Certification GmbH.

NeuroQLab, a software assistant developed by Fraunhofer MEVIS for the purpose of neurosurgical planning and quantitative image analysis, has been ranked as the best tool in a clinical study, where the accuracy of nine different tractography algorithms has been examined.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is presenting software assistants for image-based diagnosis and therapy within the Quantitative Imaging Reading Room at the 98th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) taking place from November 25-30 in Chicago.

On November 12, 2012 the collaborative European project IMPACT started its work on the development of an innovative patient-specific approach for Deep Brain Stimulation therapy.