In Bremen on Thursday, June 6, 2013, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Kuratorium, under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erich R. Reinhardt, met for the fifth time.

Researchers in the VPH-PRISM project develop new procedures to improve treatment of breast cancer using multidisciplinary image data.

At the DRK in the Congress Center in Hamburg, Fraunhofer MEVIS will again take part with its own exhibition booth (J 20) at the Forum for Industry (Industrieforum).

Michael Schwenke, scientific researcher at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen, was awarded with a New Investigator Travel Award 2013, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Thermal Medicine taking place April 17-21, 2013 in Aruba.

X-rays can provide much more than radiography for diagnosing bone fractures or internal disease. In the form of high-energy photon beams, cancer can be treated by exposing tumors to a strong dose of targeted radiation.

Ultrasound can do much more than record images from the body. Clinicians now use ultrasound to treat tumors. Powerful, concentrated ultrasound waves are focused in the patient’s body to heat cancer cells to 60 degrees Celsius, destroying them and leaving healthy tissue largely unharmed.

Dr. Christian Hansen, scientific researcher at Fraunhofer MEVIS, was awarded with the 2nd prize of the OLB Foundation Science Prize in the category ”Dissertations”. He received the award for his PhD thesis on software assistance for preoperative risk assessment and intraoperative support in liver...