Magnetic Resonance

The MR Centre of Excellence, jointly founded by the departments of Medical Physics and Radiodiagnostics, was opened in June 2003. Within a decade the relatively small group developed into a renowned scientific institution with a staff of over 50 carrying out numerous successful projects. Headed by Prof. Ewald Moser, physicist, and Prof. Siegfried Trattnig, radiologist, the MR Centre of  Excellence aims to combine Europe's leading competence in methodological-technical development in the high-field MR area using new approaches in medicine with modern diagnosis. Today magnetic resonance imaging is seen as the driving force behind modern diagnosis in medicine, in particular due to its diverse applications and, contrary to computed tomography, to the non-existing radiation exposure. In order to be able to continue to partake in the front edge of world-wide research, the centre successfully installed a 7 Tesla MR scanner in 2008, running basic research and clinical studies at 3T (TIM Trio and Prisma, to be installed in 2015) and 7T, provided and supported by Siemens Medical Solutions (Erlangen, Germany).

Scientific Director: Maxim Zaitsev, PhD (maxim.zaitsev@meduniwien.ac.at)
Medical Director: Siegfried Trattnig, MD

Contact:
Medical University of Vienna
BT 32, Lazarettgasse 14
1090 Vienna, Austria 

Phone +43 (0)1 40400-17710
E-Mail: hochfeld-mr@meduniwien.ac.at