New Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Spectroscopy (MRS) procedures for the assessment of human tissue and organ structure and function are developed. Main actual topics are methods for highfield and for parallel and dynamic MRI and MRS for the quantification of  brain functions and for selected functions of the cardiovascular and the digestive system.

For education the institute offers the degrees of a Master of Science (MSc) in Biomedical Engineering and a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Medical Physics.

Our group develops non-invasive magnetic resonance and fluorescence imaging techniques in order to derive structural, functional and molecular information from small laboratory animals. Techniques are applied in areas of neuroscience, cancer biology, and metabolic diseases.

Our group is working on novel X-ray based tomographic instruments and methods for non-invasive 3D investigations of biosamples at the micron and nano scale. We are interested in developing and optimizing imaging modalities (absorption, phase and darkfield contrast), tomographic reconstruction algorithms as well as imaging instruments (microscopes and nanoscopes).