Institute News

Florian Weiler, Christian Rieder, Carlos A. David, Christoph Wald and Horst K. Hahn received the 3rd prize in the Dirk Bartz Eurographics Medical Prize Competition at the conference Eurographics 2011 in Wales.

Fraunhofer MEVIS takes part in the EIBIR presents IMAGINE exhibition and workshop at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) from March 3-7 in Vienna.

The planning of a treatment of tumors with focused ultrasound is still challenging, mainly in moving organs with a complex blood supply.

He received the award for the paper „Interactive Approximation of the Ablation Zone incorporating the Heatsink Effects of Radiofrequency Ablation“ together with the co-authors Dr. Inga Altrogge, Dr. Tim Kröger, Dr. Stephan Zidowitz and Prof. Dr. Tobias Preusser.

Dr. Joachim Georgii, Fraunhofer MEVIS employee of the working groups Modeling/Simulation and Registration, received the “Best Paper Award” of the “7th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS 2010)” in Copenhagen.

Dr. Nils Papenberg, Fraunhofer MEVIS employee of the Project Group Image Registration in Luebeck, was honored with the State University Award 2010 by the University of Luebeck.

As father of fractal geometry Benoît Mandelbrot received worldwide reputation. He enriched the sciences by a theory of „roughness“ and changed our view of the world.

Torben Paetz, Fraunhofer MEVIS employee of the working group Mathematical Modeling and Simulation and scholarship holder at Jacobs University Bremen, received the “Best Student Paper Award”.

Am Mittwoch, den 2. Juni 2010 fand in Bremen unter Vorsitz von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erich R. Reinhardt von der Siemens AG die zweite Sitzung des Kuratoriums von Fraunhofer MEVIS statt.

The Fraunhofer MEVIS scientist Sebastian Arend Meier received the ”Bremer Studienpreis 2009” in the Bremer City Hall for his PhD thesis in the field of mathematics on January 25, 2010.