The digital course "Early Lung Cancer Detection with Low-Dose CT" by the team led by Dr. med. Katharina May (University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck Campus), Dr. rer. nat. Georg Stamm (University Medical Center Göttingen), Dr. med. Susanne Stiebeler (LungenClinik Großhansdorf) and Prof. Dr. med. Jens Vogel-Claussen (Hannover Medical School) won one of three Wachsmann Innovation Awards at this year's 105th German Radiology Congress in Wiesbaden. The course offers comprehensive and practical training for radiologists. With a learning offer of 60 interactive case studies with a total of 99 CT studies, the digital course meets all the requirements of the new lung cancer screening regulation.

Wachsmann Innovation Award 2025 | DRG.de

The European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI) has awarded Dr. rer. nat. Agilo L. Kern and colleagues the ESMI Poster Prize. ESMI President Jordi Llop presented the award during the European Molecular Imaging Meeting in Bilbao, Spain, in March 2025. The award-winning work investigated the feasibility and accuracy of absolute temperature measurements by tomographic magnetic resonance imaging of the isotope Xe-129 in adipose tissue in a small animal model. By determining absolute temperatures with high precision and good spatial resolution, local temperature changes around tissues with increased metabolism such as tumors could be detectable, which will be investigated in follow-up studies.

Thesis title: Absolute thermometry using slice-selective turbo-spectroscopic imaging of lipid-dissolved hyperpolarized 129Xe

Co-authors: Dominik Horstmann, Marcel Gutberlet, Regina Rumpel, Inga Bruesch, Jens M. Hohlfeld, Frank Wacker, Bennet Hensen

Andrea Schenk, Professor of Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Therapy at the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Hannover Medical School and Deputy Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen, has been a visiting professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston for three months since August 1, 2024.

The visiting professorship expands and deepens existing collaborations between Fraunhofer MEVIS, Hannover Medical School (MHH) and BWH, including in the Imaging Data Commons (IDC) project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a medical image database for research purposes, where MEVIS is already active in the field of digital pathology.

During her stay at BWH, a teaching hospital of HMS, Andrea Schenk will also be working on the research topic of assessing liver function using MR imaging and artificial intelligence (AI).

The visiting professorship will take place in the Surgical Planning Lab at BWH under the direction of Prof. Ron Kikinis, who was Co-Institute Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS from 2014 to 2020 in addition to his duties at BWH and HMS. After his full-time return to Boston, he was appointed B. Leonard Holman Endowed Professor of Radiology at HMS.

Andrea Schenk's stay is supported by the Fraunhofer International Mobility (FIM) program. The aim of the program is to establish and deepen strategic partnerships with research institutions abroad, to generate new project ideas and to build and expand international networks.

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Andrea Schenk, Professor of Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Therapy at Hannover Medical School, Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, and Deputy Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen and has been a visiting professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) for three months since August 1, 2024.

The visiting professorship expands and deepens existing collaborations between Fraunhofer MEVIS, Hannover Medical School (MHH) and BWH, including on the Imaging Data Commons (IDC) project funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), to build a medical image database for research purposes, where MEVIS is already active in the field of digital pathology.

During her stay at BWH, an HMS affiliate teaching hospital, Andrea Schenk is also working on the research topic of assessing liver function using MR imaging and artificial intelligence (AI).

The visiting professorship takes place at the Surgical Planning Lab at BWH led by Prof. Ron Kikinis, who was Co-Institute Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS from 2014 to 2020, in addition to his duties at BWH and HMS. Upon his full-time return to Boston, he was appointed B. Leonard Holman Endowed Professor of Radiology at HMS.

Andrea Schenk's guest stay is supported by the Fraunhofer International Mobility (FIM) program. The aim of the program is to establish and deepen strategic partnerships with research institutions abroad, generate new project ideas, as well as build and expand international networks.

Links:

• Homepage Andrea Schenk: https://www.mevis.fraunhofer.de/en/employees/andrea-schenk.html
• Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, MHH: www.mhh.de/institut-fuer-diagnostische-und-interventionelle-radiologie
• Brigham and Women's Hospital: https://www.brighamandwomens.org/
• Surgical Planning Laboratory: https://spl.harvard.edu/
• Imaging Data Commons: https://portal.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov/about/

The MHH is certified as a designated center for interventional radiological treatments in vascular medicine, pain therapy and oncological diseases. This seal of approval, with which the DeGIR has certified a university radiology department for the first time, confirms the high quality of interventional radiology at the MHH as well as the excellent interdisciplinary integration.

Certificate

The Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology is a certified cooperation partner of the

German Cancer Society e.V.https://www.krebsgesellschaft.de/

Hanover Skin Tumor Center (HTZH)

Oncology Center of the CCC Hannover (Claudia von Schilling Center)