Institute News

The Liver Explorer App, developed by Fraunhofer MEVIS, was presented at the Apple Special Event on October 22, 2013. The app has been optimized in close cooperation with Yokohama City University Hospital in Japan and is being clinically evaluated by surgeon Prof. Itaru Endo and his team.

During the farewell symposium "Disruptive Innovations in Medicine", held by Fraunhofer MEVIS for Professor Heinz-Otto Peitgen on September 4 at the Jacobs University Bremen, Professor Peitgen was honored with the Fraunhofer Medal for his contribution to the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

On September 1, 2013, Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Dr. Christian Hansen will move to the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. There, he will undertake the role of junior professor for computer-aided surgery at the Institute for Simulation and Graphics in the Department of Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg as part of STIMULATE, the new research campus for medical technology.

In deep sorrow, we commemorate our friend and companion. Our thoughts are with his family.

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. In the first meeting following the departure of founder and former institute director Prof. Dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen, members of the Kuratorium praised the continuing positive developments at Fraunhofer MEVIS and articulated their appreciation and thanks to the institute’s personnel.

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. He received the award, which is sponsored by the Radiation Research Society, for his contribution: "Accounting for patient specific breathing motion in fast numerical HIFU simulations".

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 resection surgery.

Since December 2012 the quality management system of the Fraunhofer MEVIS Project Group Image Registration in Lübeck is certified according to EN ISO 9001 and EN ISO 13485 by DEKRA Certification GmbH.

NeuroQLab, a software assistant developed by Fraunhofer MEVIS for the purpose of neurosurgical planning and quantitative image analysis, has been ranked as the best tool in a clinical study, where the accuracy of nine different tractography algorithms has been examined.