Human-sized Magnetic Particle Imaging Targeting Cerebral Applications

 

Details

Presenter: Tobias Knopp
Title: Human-sized Magnetic Particle Imaging Targeting Cerebral Applications
Affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Date: 16.03.2023 (rescheduled)
Time: 17:00 h
Place: online (zoom link)

 

Contents of the Talk

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a promising imaging modality that allows to determine the spatial distribution of magnetic nanoparticles with a high temporal resolution. In pre-clinical imaging settings, MPI has shown to be suitable for vascular and organ perfusion imaging. What is still missing are experiments on the human scale. In this talk, an overview of the first human-scale MPI head scanner is given. We show initial phantom experiments and sketch the way towards initial human experiments.

 

Short CV

Tobias Knopp received his Diplom degree in computer science in 2007 and his PhD in 2010, both from the University of Lübeck with highest distinction. For his PHD on the tomographic imaging method Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) he was awarded with the Klee award from the DGBMT (VDE) in 2011. From 2010 until 2011 he led the MAPIT project at the University of Lübeck and published the first scientific book on MPI. In 2011 he joined Bruker Biospin to work on the first commercially available MPI system. From 2012 until 2014 he worked at Thorlabs in the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) as a software developer. In 2014 he has been appointed as Professor for experimental Biomedical Imaging at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Hamburg University of Technology.