Hahn Lecture 2025

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Hahn Lecture 2025

This Erwin L. Hahn Lecture took place on October 29, 2025.

Key Speaker

Prof. Larry Wald

Prof. Larry Wald

We are delighted that Prof. Larry Wald agreed to hold the key note on "MR technology; from elegant physics to elegant engineering and back again"

About the speaker

Venue

Oktogon

UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein, Areal A [Schacht XII], Oktogon [A21] Gelsenkirchener Straße 181 45309 Essen

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Programme

Welcome

10:00 - 10:30

  • Welcome

    David Norris

    Scientific Director, ELH

    10:00 - 10:05
  • Welcome

    Rectors Barbara Albert & José Sanders

    University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany & Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    10:05 - 10:15
  • 20 Years of ELH History

    Harald Quick

    Managing Director ELH

    10:15 - 10:30

Erwin L. Hahn Lecture
Chair: David Norris

10:30 - 11:30

  • MR technology; from elegant physics to elegant engineering and back again

    Larry Wald

    Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA

    10:30 - 11:30
  • Lunch Break

    11:30 - 13:00

Session: BRAIN
Chair: Nikolai Axmacher

13:00 - 15:00

  • Joint modeling of deep brain's form and function

    Birte Forstmann

    University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    13:00 - 13:30
  • Layer-MRI in the human cerebellum

    Wietske van der Zwaag

    Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, The Netherlands

    13:30 - 14:00
  • Functional MRI of the human cerebellum

    Dagmar Timmann

    University Hospital Essen, Germany

    14:00 - 14:30
  • From artifact to insight: Imaging the infratentorial structures with whole-brain ultra-high field MRI in neurodegenerative ataxias

    Jennifer Faber

    University of Bonn, Germany

    14:30 - 15:00
  • Coffee break

    15:00 - 15:30

Session: BODY
Chair: Harald Quick

15:30 - 17:30

  • MRI of the abdomen at ultra-high field

    Tom Scheenen

    Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI, Essen, Germany

    15:30 - 16:00
  • Combined application of 3D 2H and 31P metabolic imaging in the body at 7T

    Jeanine Prompers

    Maastricht University, The Netherlands

    16:00 - 16:30
  • Combined 23Na and 1H MRI of the human body at 7 Tesla

    Armin Nagel

    Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    16:30 - 17:00
  • Towards clinical body imaging at UHF

    Sebastian Schmitter

    Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin, Germany

    17:00 - 17:30
  • Drinks and Dinner

    17:30 - 20:00

Registration

The Registration for this event is currently closed. Registration was possible until October 1, 2025.