AG Laun

Congratulations to Alessandra Moldenhauer and co-authors on the recently published article „Flow-Compensated vs. Monopolar Diffusion Encodings: Differences in Lesion Detectability Regarding Size and Position in Liver Diffusion-Weighted MRI“! Flow-compensated (FloCo) diffusion-weighted imaging set...

Congratulations to Dominika Skwierawska and co-authors on the recently published article "Relevance of Prostatic Fluid on the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient: An Inversion Recovery Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Investigation"! This study investigated how prostate fluid affects diffusion-weighted imag...

Congratulations to Clara Bögerl, Dr. rer. biol. hum. Jannis Hanspach and co-authors on the recently published article "Analysis of the sample size used in clinical MRI studies"! This study analyzed 734 clinical MRI studies published in JMRI (2020–2023) and found that sample sizes varied widely, w...

Congratulations to Dominika Skwierawska, Maximilian Bachl and co-authors on the recently published article "Pros and Cons of High-Performance Gradient Enabled Short-TE Prostate DWI: A Prospective Study"! This study evaluated the impact of echo time (TE) on prostate diffusion-weighted MRI, finding...

Congratulations to Bianca Reithmeier and co-authors on the recently published article "Relevance of lesion size in navigator-triggered and free-breathing diffusion-weighted liver MRI"! This study investigated the effectiveness of navigator-triggered (TRIG) versus free-breathing (FB) diffusion-wei...

Congratulations to Mona Pistel and co-authors on the recently published article "Stability of Radiomic Features against Variations in Lesion Segmentations Computed on Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Maps of Breast Lesions"! Diffusion-weighted imaging combined with radiomics can help differentiate ...

Congratulations to Tamara Bäuchle, Christoph Stuprich and co-authors on the published paper ‘Influence of Magnetic Field Strength on Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Parameters in Diffusion MRI of the Calf’. The study investigated the dependence of the measured IVIM parameters in the human calf on ma...

Congratulations to Christoph Stuprich and colleagues on the recently published paper "Velocity-compensated intravoxel incoherent motion of the human calf muscle"! The aim of the study was to determine whether intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) better describes blood perfusion in muscles when pse...

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 d...

Congratulations to Tobit Führes (and colleagues) on the recently published paper: „Impact of velocity- and acceleration-compensated encodings on signal dropout and black-blood state in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance liver imaging at clinical TEs“! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/artic...