2nd prize at the spring conference of the DPG in Berlin 2024
At this year’s spring conference of the German Physical Society (DPG) in Berlin, the Radiation and Medical Physics Association once again awarded a prize for the best presentations. Second place, worth €100, went to Mona Pistel from the qMRI lab (Laun).
In her presentation, Mona focussed on how diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) can differentiate between benign and malignant breast lesions non-invasively and without the use of contrast agents. DWI measures the Brownian molecular motion in the body caused by thermal energy. Since malignant lesions have a higher cell density than benign lesions, the diffusion of molecules in malignant lesions is more restricted than in benign lesions. DWI can visualise this difference in diffusion and thus represents a promising tool in breast cancer diagnostics.
Congratulations!