Research
Research in the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine is already integrated into the training phase. There is a dedicated research support team and a three-month research rotation during residency training.
In addition to department-specific projects, the handling of large amounts of data (big data) is an overarching research topic - as part of our big data projects, we have realized a large number of developments and are already applying some of them in a clinical environment.
Research Coordination Team
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Bach
Leiter Forschungskoordination
Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin
Tel. +41 61 265 43 84
Maurice Johannes Henkel MD
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin
Tel. +41 61 328 69 94
Ivan Nesic
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Forschungskoordination
Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin
Tel. +41 61 328 42 56
Victor Parmar
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Forschungskoordination
Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin
Tel. +41 61 328 74 49
Dr. phil. Francesco Santini
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter radiologische Physik, Leiter Forschungskoordination
Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin
Tel. +41 61 556 54 17
Tobias Thüring
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Forschungskoordination
Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin
Tel. +41 61 328 44 31
Dr. rer. nat. Shan Yang
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Forschungskoordination
Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin
Tel. +41 61 328 65 52
Big data projects
The handling and use of large amounts of medical data (big data) is a research topic that concerns all departments of the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. In cooperation with industrial partners and in close collaboration with the ETH spin-off 4Quant, we have realized a large number of developments in this area. Some are already being used in a clinical environment.
See the following presentations:
- B-0264 - Why big image analytics is essential for imaging biobanks: an osteoporosis radiomics study
- Machine Learning for Improved PET/CT Fusion Images
- Keeping a human in the loop, interpretable explanations for finding crushed vertebrae
For more information on research at the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, please contact our research coordinator:
Research fund
The Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine offers an annual grant of 100,000 Swiss francs to promote highly innovative research. This sum is used to support outstanding scientific projects by assistant and senior physicians, radiology specialists and scientists in radiology and nuclear medicine.
The fund is used for basic, clinical and translational research in the fields of radiology, nuclear medicine, medical physics and radiopharmaceutical chemistry.
Applicants can submit applications for funding on an ongoing basis. These are assessed by an interdisciplinary committee.
Bram Stieltjes, MD, PhD (Research Coordinator of the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and Chairman of the Research Fund Committee) will be happy to answer any questions and provide further information. Applications can be sent directly to him as an informal project outline of 1 - 2 pages.
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Dissertations and habilitations
Our employees have written or supervised the works listed below in recent years.
Interested parties are welcome to contact us with suggestions for topics for dissertations (or Master's theses): Dr. phil. Seline Schellenberg. We are particularly pleased to hear from interested parties who would like to stay with us as assistant doctors.
Dissertations
- Jan Vosshenrich (Dr. med.): ≪Response prediction of hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing transcatheter arterial chemoembolization: unlocking the potential of CT texture analysis through nested decision tree models≫. Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2021 (PhD supervisor: Prof. Daniel Boll)
- Andrej Romanov (Dr. med.): ≪Automated CT Lung Density Analysis of Viral Pneumonia and Healthy Lungs Using Deep Learning-Based Segmentation, Histograms and HU Thresholds≫. Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2021 (PhD supervisor: PD Dipl. Phys. Gregor Sommer, supervisors: Prof. Alexander Sauter and Dr. Thomas Weikert)
- Lorraine Abel (Dr. med.): ≪Automated Detection of Pancreatic Cystic Lesions on CT Using Deep Learning≫. Medical Faculty of the University of Basel 2021 (PhD supervisor: Prof. Daniel Boll, supervisor: PD Björn Friebe)
- Luca Noordtzij (Dr. med.): ≪Assessment of a Deep Learning Algorithm for the Detection of Rib Fractures on Whole Body Trauma CT scans≫. Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2020 (PhD supervisor: Prof. Jens Bremerich, supervisor: Prof. Alexander Sauter)
- Raphael Sexauer (Dr. med.): ≪Towards More Structure: Comparing TNM Staging Completeness and Processing Time of Text-Based Reports versus Fully Segmented and Annotated PET/CT Data of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer≫. Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2019 (Supervisor: Prof. Jens Bremerich, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander Sauter)
- Fides Schwartz (Dr. med.): "Over-scanning in chest CT: Comparison of practice among six hospitals and its impact on radiation dose". Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel 2018
- Damien Nguyen (Dr. phil. nat.): "Exploring configuration-based relaxometry and imaging with balanced steady-state free precession". Faculty of Science of the University of Basel 2018 (Head: Prof. Oliver Bieri)
- Orso Andrea Pusterla (Dr. phil. nat.): "Functional Pulmonary MRI with ultra-fast steady-state free precession". Faculty of Science of the University of Basel 2018 (Head: Prof. Oliver Bieri)
- Patricia Wiesner (Dr. med.): "Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor imaging in patients with post gastric bypass hypoglycemia". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2018 (Head: Prof. Damian Wild)
- Rahel Maria Heule (Dr. phil. nat.):: "Rapid Magnetic Resonance Tissue Relaxometry in the Steady State". Faculty of Science of the University of Basel 2015 (Head: Prof. Oliver Bieri)
- Alba Mascarin (Dr. phil. nat.): "Triazole-Based Radiopeptidomimetics: Novel Neurotensin (8-13) Analogues with Increased Metabolic Stability". Faculty of Science of the University of Basel 2015 (Head: Prof. Thomas L. Mindt)
- Žarko Ćeličanin (Dr. phil. nat.): "Respiratory Organ Motion in Interventional MRI: Tracking, Guiding and Modeling". Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Basel 2014 (Director: Prof. Klaus Scheffler)
- Christiane Anke Fischer (Dr. phil. nat.): "Towards the optimization of tumour targeting radiolabeled peptides for molecular imaging and therapy". Faculty of Science of the University of Basel 2014 (Head: Prof. Thomas L. Mindt)
- Julia Reinhardt(Dr. sc. hum.): "Time-resolved functional magnetic resonance imaging: improved time resolution for advanced network analysis of the human brain". Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg 2014 (doctoral supervisor: Prof. Christoph Stippich)
- Xeni Deligianni (Dr. phil. nat.): "Exploring T2* Decay: New Methods for Short Echo Time Imaging and Fat-Water Quantification". Faculty of Science of the University of Basel 2013 (Speaker: Prof. Klaus Scheffler)
- Jinxia Zhu (Dr. phil. nat.): "Assessment of Tissue Micro-Structure with Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging". Faculty of Science of the University of Basel 2013 (Lecturer: Prof. Klaus Scheffler)
- Claudia Lenz (Dr. phil. nat.): "On the track of the brain's microstructure: Myelin water imaging using quantitative MRI". Faculty of Science of the University of Basel 2011 (speaker and director: Prof. Klaus Scheffler)
- Sandra Fussen (Dr. med.): Imaging of cardiac tumors. Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2011 (speaker and director: Peter T. Buser, co-lecturer: Prof. Jens Bremerich)
- Katharina Riffel (Dr. med.): "Functional networks of the primary and secondary motor cortex". Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg 2011 (doctoral supervisor: Prof. Christoph Stippich)
- Arman Parsaï (Dr. med.): "Evaluation of liver ultrasonography: comparison of standardized video documentation and still images". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2010 (Supervisor: Prof. Georg Bongartz, Director: Dr. Joachim Hohmann)
Habilitations
- David Winkel (PD Dr. med.): "Novel Techniques for Prostate Cancer Detection and Classification≫. Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel 2022
- Grzegorz Baumann (PD Dr. rer. nat.): ≪Non-invasive clinical MRI of the lung function≫. Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel 2021
- Federico Caobelli (Dr. med.): Habilitation as Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine (qualified associate professor). Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca, Italy 2019
- Martin Kretzschmar ( PD Dr. med.): ≪Quantitative and multimodal imaging in osteoarthritis≫. Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel 2019
- Gregor Sommer (PD Dr. med.): ≪Evaluation and further development of magnetic resonance imaging as a method for morphological and functional imaging of the lung with a special focus on the application in the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer≫. Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel 2019
- Anna Hirschmann (PD Dr. med.): "From morphological to functional imaging in musculoskeletal radiology". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2018
- Tilman Schubert (PD Dr. med.): "Innovative MR angiographic examinations - vascular imaging and blood flow quantification". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2018
- Daniel W. Zumofen (PD Dr. med.): "Hemorrhagic stroke". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2018
- Meritxell Garcia Alzamora ( PD Dr. med.): " Innovative MRI methods in neuroradiology". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2016
- Tobias Heye (PD Dr. med.): "Quantitative imaging versus radiological experience - competition or logical development?" Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2015
- Tilo Niemann (PD Dr. med.): " Dose reduction in CT - justification, optimization, image quality". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2014
- Joachim Hohmann (PD Dr. med.): "Detection and characterization of focal lesions of the liver using new morphological and functional imaging techniques with special consideration of contrast-enhanced ultrasound". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2013
- Nadine Kawel-Böhm (PD Dr. med.): "Quantitative evaluation of left ventricular myocardial structure using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging". Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel 2013
- Ueli Studler (PD Dr. med.): Development of Imaging Criteria for Evaluating Articular and Periarticular Structural Abnormalities. 2011
- Silke Potthast ( PD Dr. med.): "From the contrast-agent free to the intraarterial MR Angiography". Medical Faculty of the University of Basel 2010