The Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT) is a joint institution of the ETH Zurich and the external pageUniversity of Zurichcall_made and hosts seven groups. The groups' research combines the expertise of natural sciences and electrical engineering with biology and medicine and spans from imaging and sensing to modeling and prediction of health and disease.
The loss of myelin sheaths in the brain is a hallmark of multiple sclerosis. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed an MRI method that maps the condition of this nerve insulation layer more accurately than before.