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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...

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...

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 Simon Weinmüller and co-authors on the recently published articlel "MR-zero meets FLASH – controlling the transient signal decay in gradient- and RF-spoiled gradient echo sequences"! The article focused on the optimization of individual RF flip angles and phases using the MR-ze...

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...

This year's retreat of the six MR research groups of the University Hospital took place on 26 and 27 June. The two-day meeting provided a platform for exchange between scientists, alumni and students to present and discuss the latest developments and research projects in the field of MRI. ...