Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Ingolf Sack is professor for Experimental Radiology and Elastography at Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He received a PhD in Chemistry at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, for the development of methods in NMR spectroscopy. He worked at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, and at the Sunnybrook Hospital Toronto, Canada. Since 2003 he leads an interdisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, chemists and physicians which has pioneered pivotal developments in time-harmonic elastography of both MRI and ultrasound for many medical applications. Sebastian Hirsch is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiology at the Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Germany. After studying physics at the University of Mainz, Germany, he joined Charite, where he works on pressure-sensitive MRE and the development of data acquisition strategies. Jurgen Braun is an assistant professor at the Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany, for the elucidation of reaction kinetics with liquid and solid state NMR. He possesses long standing professional experience in elastography, medical engineering, and image processing.