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Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI is an imaging method suitable for studying inner organs and tissues using magnetic fields and radiofrequency pulses. In contrast to methods such as CT, it does not utilize ionizing radiation. MRI is a versatile technique with a variety of new applications in biomedicine.

Not only does MR allow visualization of the structure of cells, plants, organs, animals and humans, but also provides dynamic information about function and metabolism down to a molecular level. Application areas besides medicine and biomedicine include pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology, environmental engineering and information technology.

1. Laboratories
2. Equipment
3. Personnel
4. Spin off companies
5. Cooperations
6. Developed products
7. Teaching
8. Research

1. Laboratories

• Main building with 11.7 T vertical NMR system, chemistry and in vivo labs
• NMR-1 with 2 T whole body NMR system and 7 T horizontal small animal NMR system
• NMR-2 with 1,5 T whole body NMR system and 17.6 T vertical NMR system

2. Equipment

• 1,5 T whole body NMR system (64 MHz)
• 2 T whole body NMR system (85 MHz)
• 7 T horizontal small animal NMR system (300 MHz)
• 11.7 T vertical NMR system (500 MHz)
• 17.6 T vertical NMR system (750 MHz)

3. Personnel

• see staff

4. Spin off companies

• RAPID Biomedical: manufacturing of NMR instruments such as RF coils
• MRB - Magnetic Resonance Bavaria: Research Center for Life & Material Science

5. Cooperations

• Siemens Medical Solutions
• GlaxoSmithKline, Pharma
• Medigene, biotechnology
• RAPID Biomedical
• Noras Medizintechnik
• Fresenius Medical Care
• Genelux, Biotechnologie
• Evident Technologies, nanotechnology
• La Vision Biotech
• Pico Quant
• Schering
• Südzucker
• Tchibo
• Nestlé

These cooperations are in the areas of consulting, experiments, R&D projects, diploma theses, dissertations, instruction and advanced education.

6. Developed products

• NMR methods, ultrafast and quantitative
• instrumentation, such as RF coils
• software, such as data evaluation and post-processing

7. Teaching

•  NMR block courses within advanced laboratory course
• workshops on NMR cardiac imaging
• graduate colloquia

8. Research

Over the last five years:

• 19 diploma theses
• 21 dissertations
• 1 habilitation

106 MR publications in renowned journals such as JMR, MRC, MAGMA, MRM, MRI, JMRI, NMR Biomed, JBiomolNMR, ProgressNMR, Concepts A/B, Neuroradiology