hyperquant.
Translation of innovative imaging and visualization for the efficacy of marine extracts and personalized medicine
About the project
Measuring efficacy is a key element in drug development, but involves a great deal of effort. Essential parameters such as the local effect or metabolism are currently not available or only available through invasive animal studies. The "hyperquant" project is developing new methods for the non-invasive measurement and visualization of metabolism, lung function and drug distribution using hyperpolarized MRI, which can also be used for humans. Molecules are magnetically marked so that they can be observed in the body without damaging tissue or having to insert instruments into the body.
In this way, diseases such as cancer or inflammation can be detected at an early stage and the effect of marine extracts on metabolism and tissue can be measured more precisely.
Project Category
Diagnostic
Project Start
01.12.2022
Project End
31.11.2025
Supported by
hyperquant is a joint project with
University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein
Excellent imaging devices, patient care and data infrastructure in the Clinic of Radiology and Neuroradiology.
Section Biomedical Imaging
Expertise in contrast agent, soft- and hardware development for hyperpolarized magnetic resoncance imaging.
GEOMAR Helmholtz Center
for Ocean Research Kiel
Expertise in new technologies for 3D visualization of digital data.
MOIN CC - Molecular Imaging North Competence Center
Expertise on preclinical, molecular and non-invasive imaging methods.
Principal investigators
Prof. Jan-Bernd Hövener
Project Spokesperson and Head of the Section Biomedical Imaging, MOIN CC
Dr. Tom Kwasnitschka
3D imaging specialist and Head of Data Visualization group at Geomar
Prof. Olav Jansen
Director Clinic for Radiology
and Neuroradiology, UKSH
Dr. Sanjay Tiwari
Molecular imaging specialist and
Manager MOIN CC
Scientific staff (current and previous)
Dr. Maria Anikeeva
Post-doc at the Section Biomedical Imaging, MOIN CC, with expert knowledge in spectroscopy and imaging of hyperpolarized Xenon.
Martin Sandbrink, M.Sc.
PhD-student at the Section Biomedical Imaging, MOIN CC, electrical engineer and developer of MRI hardware and software.
Josh Peters, MD
PhD-student at the Section Biomedical Imaging, MOIN CC, physicist and medical doctor, expert in dissolution-DNP and spectroscopy.
Aaron Diercks, M.Sc.
PhD-student at the Section Biomedical Imaging, MOIN CC, physicist and developer of MRI sequences with varying programming tools.
PD DR. Andrey Pravdivtsev
Senior scientist at the Section Biomedical Imaging, MOIN CC, physicist and expert in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP).
We look for talented individuals!
Graduates and undergraduates from Physics, Medical physics, Computer science, Informatics or related fields - contact us for job opportunities or your thesis.
Especially, if you're interested in quantum mechanics, magnetic resonance, data science or 3D data visualization - get in touch!