AG Nagel

Congratulations to Christoph Kopp, Anke Dahlmann and co-authors on their recently published article ‘7-T Potassium (39K) MRI to Assess Muscle K+ Depletion in Primary Aldosteronism’! In their study, they showed that combined 39K and 23Na MR imaging at 7 Tesla enables non-invasive visualisation of ...

Congratulations to Matthias Rohe and co-authors on the recently published article „Fat/Water Separation at 7 T Using a 3D Radial SequenceWith Quasi-Continuous Echo Times"! In their study, they present a new radial 3D MRI sequence with quasi-continuous echo time sampling, which enables reliable se...

Congratulations to Dr. rer. nat. Nico Egger and co-authors on the recently published article ‘Evaluation of an interleaved acquisition scheme for improved robustness of channel-wise relative B1+ mapping at 7T’! This study evaluates whether an interleaved acquisition scheme at 7 T, in contrast to ...

Congratulations to Claudius Sebastian Mathy and co-authors on the recently published article "Feasibility of 7T 39K/23Na Magnetic Resonance Imaging for assessing muscular ion balance in hypokalemic periodic paralysis"! This study used combined potassium-39 and sodium-23 MRI at 7 Tesla to investig...

Congratulations to Dr. rer. nat. Teresa Gerhalter and co-authors on the recently published article "Longitudinal Follow-Up of Patients With DuchenneMuscular Dystrophy Using Quantitative 23Na and 1H MRI"! This longitudinal MRI study in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) found that sodium ...

Congratulations to Laurent Ruck and co-authors on the recently published article ‘Interleaved 23Na/1H MRI of the human heart at 7 T using a combined 23Na/1H coil setup and 1H parallel transmission’! This study investigated the application of interleaved 23Na/1H MRI at 7 T using parallel excitatio...

In November 2024, a report on X-MRI was published in the FAU magazine. The article can be accessed via the following link: Taking images with a grain of salt | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg  

On the road toward implementing a 14 Tesla human whole-body system in Germany, we responded to a call in 2024 from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) to submit projects to develop new national scientific infrastructures: https://...

Congratulations to Dr. Lena Gast and co-authors on the recently published article "Determination of Tissue Potassium and Sodium Concentrations in Dystrophic Skeletal Muscle Tissue Using Combined Potassium (39K) and Sodium (23Na) MRI at 7T"! This study used combined 23Na/39K MRI at 7T to assess ap...

Congratulations to Nico Egger and co-authors on the recently published article "Accelerated B1+ mapping and robust parallel transmit pulse design for heart and prostate imaging at 7T"! In this publication, the performance of universal parallel transmit (pTx) pulses for prostate and heart imaging ...