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World premiere: Birth in the open MRI
After two years of preparations, the first birth was imaged in the open MRI on November 20th 2010. The birth itself was fast and free of complications. The newborn in the uterus and the emergence of the head were recorded during the 40min birth with cine imaging. Even the expulsion after birth was imaged. The success of this endeavor is owed to the good cooperation between radiologists, engineers, physicists, technical assistants and obstetricians. The study groups main focus during this interdisciplinary project were mainly technical and radiological aspects. The study group open MRI developed an MR-compatible fetal heart monitor, to…
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Announcement – RSNA 2009
Posted on March 25, 2009 | No CommentsThe Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) was founded in 1915 and publicizes regularly in the renound scientific journals Radiology and RadioGraohics. Just as regularly, the RSNA has been hosting annual conventions of the same name in Chicago since 1919 – beginning on the first Sunday in November. This year, the RSNA will be held for the 95th time. The international congress offers radiologists and scientists working in the field of radiology the opportunity to present their research and to learn about current innovations of other research groups. The research group open MRI will also be represnted at this years’... -
Announcement – 23rd Medical Engineering Convention
Posted on March 25, 2009 | 1 CommentOn the 4th of June 2009 the 23rd Medical Engineering Convention will be held in Berlin. The meeting is hosted by TSB-Medici (Technology Fund of Berlin) in collaboration with the Charité and the international chamber of commerce of Berlin. The Medical Engineering Convention is a platform for clinical practice, science and enterprises and is used by doctors and scientists with a background in physics, IT, optics, molecular biology, biochemistry, microsystems and nanotechnology as well as medical engineering businesses. The research group open MRI is presenting its work at this 23rd Medical Engineering Convention with a focus on medical engineering and... -
ISMRM 2009 in Honululu, Hawaii
Posted on February 8, 2009 | No CommentsThis year, the 17th annual Symposium of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), will be held in Honululu, Hawaii (18-22 April). The ISMRM symposium is one of the most renown international forums for innovations in the medical application of magnetic resonance tomography. The study group open MRI had submitted various posters and papers with results and findings form the individual subprojects. We are now honored to report, that many of these submissions were accepted for presenation at the ISMRM. We are looking forward to the professional exchange of ideas and conversations with the other international attendees. Update:... -
Innovation Prize 2008 for InnoRa
Posted on December 6, 2008 | No CommentsSenator Harald Wolf and the Secretary of Commerce Ulrich Junghans awarded the Innovation Prize Berlin-Brandenburg 2008. Out of the seven nominees, four were awarded the 10.000 Euro prize. One of our industrial partners, InnoRa GmbH was awarded for the development of “Drug-coated balloon catheters for the treatment of arterial stenoses and occlusions”. Since January of 2007 the study group Open MRI and InnoRa GmbH have been developing and researching local tumor therapy with a coated balloon catheter, which was now awarded with the Innovation prize. Local chemotherapeutic treatment of arterial stenoses is a new treatment method, which was developed at... -
RSNA 2008
Posted on November 27, 2008 | No Comments30th of November until the 5th of December, the Radiologic Society of North America is hosting the 94th annual Scientific Assembly and Meeting (RSNA 2008) in Chicago, Illinois. This year, the study group open MRI will present their current results at the RSNA. At the convention, the strudy group will be represented by Jens Rump and Christian Seebauer. The presentation “Retrograde Talus Drillung under High Field MRI Guidance: A cadaveric study” will be held on November, 30th at 11.15 am (local time). Update: Links: Official Website RSNA 2008 Philips Healthcare, producer of the HFO MRI (Hall B North Building,... -
Great interest in project results
Posted on November 21, 2008 | No CommentsThe study group Open MRI stand the 2nd Berlin Economic Forum was met with great interest by more than 600 visitors. An experimental setup, which had proven to be successful the Berlin Technological Foundations annual symposium, allowed the visitors to become minimal invasive surgeons in practicing endoscopically assessed intervention on a grapevine and turned out to be a favourit. All in all, about 50 visitors gave their minimal-invasive surgical skills a try. Dr. Hans-Gerhard Husung (State senator for science and research) turned out to a very skilled interventionalist. Klaus Wowereit (Current Mayor of Berlin) and Harald Wolf (Sanator for Economy,... -
2nd Economic Conference in Berlin
Posted on November 14, 2008 | No CommentsThe 2nd Berlin Economic Conference – innovation forum – with a focus on “Cooperation between Science and Industry” is an excellent opportunity for the research group Open High-Field MRI and its industrial partners to present findings and results from innovative, translational research and development in cooparation with small and medium-size businesses (SMEs) from the Brandenburg-Berlin region. The Berlin Economic Symposium is organized by the senate’s department for industry, technology and women and the investment bank Berlin (IBB). Moreover, the preperation and logistic realization is based on the close cooperation of the partners of the Berlin Growth initiative 2004-2014. The conference... -
Prize for Poster at the UEGW Symposium
Posted on October 28, 2008 | No CommentsThis year, the 16th gastroenterology week was held in Vienna, Austria. The United European Gastroenterology Federation annually presents the latest advances in enterology, hepatology and endoscopy. On this occasion, the Study Group Open MRI was represented by I.S Papanikolaou,MD and I. van der Voort, MD. Their poster with the title “MRI-GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIO DRAINAGE (MRI-PTCD): INITIAL EXPERIENCE IN ANIMAL MODELS” was awarded 1st prize in the category “Acute Liver Failure/Transplantation/Surgery”. -
10 years Technology Foundation Berlin (TSB)
Posted on October 17, 2008 | No CommentsTo mark the ten year anniversary of the TSB and to present of the technology transfer prize “WissensWerte 2008″, the TSB invited the Study Group Open MRI to present their project on the 16th of October in the Peter-Behrens hall at the technology and innovation park Berlin. The Study Group was certainly honored to accept the invitation and was represented by U. Teichgräber MD, J. Rump, F. Güttler and s. Chopra MD. The attending audience as further able to try out the camera system, which was developed and designed in collaboration with WoM and MGB as well as other MR-compatible... -
New Horizons workshop in the open MRI
Posted on October 10, 2008 | No CommentsOn Wednesday, the 8th of October 2008, the research group Open MRI offered a hands-on workshop as part of the New Horizons Symposium, Berlin. 15 participants from all over Germany were offered the opportunity to learn puncture and navigation skills in the open MRI. Step, by step, from a simple gel phantom, which allowed the participants to observe navigation and artifact properties of MR-compatible instruments; to a demonstration and instruction session of retrotalar drilling of the talocalcanean joint under MR-fluoroscopy and a MR-navigated laser resection of a liver model, the participants were introduced to a wide spectrum of interventional radiology.... -
First PLDD in the open high-field MRI
Posted on October 7, 2008 | No CommentsThis week, the first percutaneous laser disk decompression (PLDD) was preformed on a 42year-old male patient in the open high-field MRI at the Charité, Berlin by Streitparth, MD. These interventions have been performed in low-field MR scanners and under CT guidance but never before in an open high-field system(1.0T). PLDD is a minimally invasive treatment strategy for disc prolapse, based on laser-induced volume reduction of the prolapsed disc material. The patient was treated for chronic backpain in our department with percutaneous injections to the nerve root as part of a serial treatment plan. Since radicular pain persisted, the patient elected... -
Federal patent attorneys with the research group open MRI
Posted on October 6, 2008 | No CommentsOn Monday the 6th of October, the research group Open MRI was honored to welcome a group of federal patent attorneys. As part of our project, we also develop special dedicated instruments for the use in an MR-environment. MR-compatible bone cement and a MR-compatible optical mouse are just two of the recently completed product prototypes. Therefore, a dialogue with the federal patent office is very important for our research group and future funding from our industrial partners. After a brief tour to the open MR scanner and the associated labs, Teichgraeber, MD gave a short presentation on the field of... -
IMRI convention in Baltimore
Posted on September 18, 2008 | No CommentsThis September, the interventional magnetic resonance imaging symposium (IMRI) was held for the 7th time in Baltimore, Maryland. Annually this conference introduces innovations in the field of MR-guided interventions. This year, two of the many highlights were the use of hybrid imaging suites, targeted drug delivery, monitoring of thermal ablation therapy and many more. Thermal ablation monitoring is one of the topics our study group is currently researching as well. After our group had applied the MR-compatible and MR-signal inducing bone cement for patent earlier this year, Teichgräber, MD (left) and Streitphart, MD (center) now presented a poster on the... -
Acitve catheter tracking in the open high-field MRI
Posted on September 11, 2008 | No CommentsCatheter tracking describes the localization of the position of a catheter in the body. The minimal invasive therapy with a catheter system is especially useful in cardio-vascular diagnostic imaging to depict the targeted anatomic structures. Our group has managed to develop a method that permits the visibility of a catheter by voltage induced artifacts which are adapted to the specific intervention. Hereby we hope to facilitate the minimally invasive use of catheters in which we can modulate the MR-artifact by voltage. The power supply is generated by a laser source which was constructed and evaluated in collaboration with Laseranimation Solliger,... -
New Horizons in Berlin
Posted on August 8, 2008 | No CommentsThis October the international symposium “Hew Horizons in Radiology” is held for the 5th time. From the 8th to the 11th workshops and seminars will be offered. On Wednesday the 8th of October, an interventional workshop on open high-field MRI will be offered as part of the program under the chairmanship of Ulf Teichgräber MD. 2.00 pm Sequences, Settings Tips and Tricks for interventional procedures in an open MRI – U. Teichgräber MD, Berlin 2.30 pm Pain therapy and treatment in open MRI – F. Streitparth MD, Berlin 3.00 pm Practical exercise in a phantom model- F. Streitparth MD, Berlin...
