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Boris Keil, Professor of Magnetic Resonance Physics and Imaging at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, develops hardware components and is an instrumentalist for magnetic resonance imaging. His aim is to use new methods to make imaging procedures better and faster, more sensitive and more comfortable for patients. In an interview with the Hesse University of Applied Sciences, he talks about the new LOEWE research project ADMIT, of which he is the spokesperson.

Together with Dr. Susanne Knake, Professor of Neurology, Intensive Care Medicine and Geriatrics and Head of the Epilepsy Center at Marburg University Hospital, Keil heads ADMIT, which stands for “Advanced Medical Physics in Imaging and Therapy”. In the project, the scientists want to use new imaging techniques to further develop methods and therapies to better “monitor” and track tumor diseases and thus better cure them. The same applies to neurodegenerative diseases: Here, too, they want to develop procedures to make these more curable.

In tumor treatment, dose applications are to be used with the aid of radiotherapy.  In the case of neurodegenerative diseases, patients with deep brain stimulators are the focus of the investigations. These patients will be able to use MRI again for the first time, which is currently almost impossible due to the metal implant. At the same time, the procedure also offers the opportunity to use imaging to draw new conclusions about how exactly brain stimulation works in the brain. Ultimately, the findings from both areas will be brought together to enable new therapies.