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Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI
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The ELH is a center for research, development and application of ultra-high field magnetic resonance (UHF-MRI).

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Das Lab von @ulrikebingel.bsky.social war dieses Jahr wirklich nicht faul, und hat mit Kollegen von der Universitätsmedizin Essen mal eben noch an einem Buch zum Placebo-Effekt mitgearbeitet. @helenahartmann.com 👏🍾

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December 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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As we approach the end of another year, we would like to wish you and your families a wonderful holiday season filled with joy, health, and relaxation. May the new year bring exciting discoveries, successful collaborations, and continued growth for all of us.

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
December 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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✨🕯️🎄🎀ADVENT CALENDAR WEEK 4🕯️🎄🎀✨

The final advent calendar post is brought to you 2 days early 😆

Pictured: ELH members in 2024, UDE chancellor Ulf Richter with ELH directors H. Quick and D. Norris, and manager F. Günther in 2025; a rainy lunch talk barbecue, impressions from the coking plant.

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December 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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➡️ New paper out by ELH-PI Tom Scheenen! "The Current and Future Role of MRI and PSMA-PET/CT in Diagnosing Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer" 🍾👏

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December 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Join us today via Zoom at 4PM CET for our next Anniversary Colloquium!

Greg Metzger from the University of Minnesota will give a lecture on "The Evolution of UHF body MRI". Interested? You can find the Zoom link here. hahn-institute.de/en/info/even...
December 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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➡️ New paper out with Oliver Kraff! "Corollary discharge and efference copy mechanisms in schizophrenia and controls: The N1 and P2 evoked potential components differentially react to self-initiated tones in schizophrenia" 🍾 Check it out!

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December 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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✨🕯️🎄🎀ADVENT CALENDAR WEEK 3🕯️🎄🎀✨

Adventures in the history of the ELH...

Pictured: The ELH celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop in 2017, inquisitive children join us for the "Türen auf mit der Maus"-Tag in 2023, the new 7Tesla MRI system arrives in 2020.
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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✨🕯️🎄🎀ADVENT CALENDAR WEEK 2🕯️🎄🎀✨

Our travels through the ELH's history continue...

Pictured: WissensNachtRuhr, changing the coil, ELH on a sunny day and Erwin L. Hahn visits the ELH in 2009.
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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➡️ New paper out with ELH members Markus May and Marcel Gratz, and ELH-PI Mark Ladd and ELH alumni Stephan Orzada: "Ultimate Intrinsic SNR in the Torso of Realistic Body Models". Check it out! 🍾

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December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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And that's a wrap on our Lunch Talk series for this year. A huge thank you to ELH alumni Stephan Orzada from @dkfz.bsky.social for closing 2025 in style with an excellent talk on "The MRexcite System Mk3 - New design and capabilities". 🤗
Zoom meeting screen. People are lining up in the hallway of the ELH to get to the buffet. Oliver Kraff and Dagmar Timmann deep in discussion. A variety of bread, tomatoes, antipasti, cheese etc. - the ELH buffet this time.
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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✨🕯️🎄🎀ADVENT CALENDAR 🕯️🎄🎀✨

This advent, the ELH will take you through a brief photo tour through its 20 years of history.

First week: The former control centre of the Zollverein coking plan (now the ELH) under construction in 2006 and the arrival of the first 7T MRI system.
Photo collage: 4 photos showing the ELH during the initial renovations in 2006, including the former control room of the building and the arrival of the first 7T MRI system.
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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➡️New paper out by Matthias Brand's PI group: "General executive functions, stimulus-specific inhibitory control and predisposing variables of individuals with problematic social network use" 🍾👏

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November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Das Internet droht im synthetischen Müll zu versinken. Wikipedia, YouTube, LinkedIn: Überall ist künstlicher Content, auch bekannt als ‘AI Slop’. Wie gefährlich ist das für unsere Wissensinfrastruktur? 👇
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Wir versinken in Schrott
Ein Viertel der meistgeklickten TikTok-Suchergebnisse ist künstlich erzeugt. Oft ohne Kennzeichnung, oft täuschend echt. Welche Orientierung bleibt in dieser neuen Realität? Im August 2025 bemerkte de...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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In Deutschland…

- findet fast jeden Tag ein Femizid statt

- tötet alle zwei Tage ein Mann seine (Ex-)Partnerin

- erleben 63 % der politisch engagierten Frauen digitale Gewalt

#orangetheworld

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November 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I am so proud and deeply impressed by the amazing work of our ECRs. We could have awarded even more of the ECR publications evolved from the 1st funding period!
sfb-trr-289.bsky.social SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · Nov 20
Last order of business: ✨ PRIZES ✨

We congratulate four early career researchers who won best paper awards! 🤩

Huge congrats for doing amazing work, @astrube.bsky.social, Lieven Schenk, Justine Schmidt, and Stefanie Hölsken! 🥳
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Congratulations! So well-deserved! 🍾🍾🍾
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To end this wonderful retreat week, we just got the news that the CRC 1280 "Extinction Learning" just got renewed for a third funding period! 🥳

Huge congrats to the whole team, especially to some of our involved CRC members! 👏

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November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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A huge thank you to Benedikt Poser ( @highonfield.bsky.social ) for coming all the way to the ELH to deliver his talk on "Spiral imaging for non-BOLD fMRI at UHF"! It was an honour and a blast to have you here!
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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📣 Join us today at 1:30CET on Zoom for our next exciting Anniversary Colloquium: Benedikt Poser's (@highonfield.bsky.social) talk on "Spiral imaging for non-BOLD fMRI at UHF". ⬇️

The Zoom link is available here: hahn-institute.de/en/info/even...

See you there!
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Wie beeinflussen Placebo und Nocebo die Behandlung von Patient*innen? Im ERCM Medizin Podcast auf YouTube spricht @ulrikebingel.bsky.social über das spannende und lange unterschätzte Phänomen.

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80% der Antidepressiva-Wirkung ist Placebo! Die Macht des Placebo-Effekts | Prof. Dr. Ulrike Bingel
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November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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When the view from your office is an UNESCO World Heritage Site ...
Industrial buildings against the early morning sky, gleaming red in the sunrise
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Join the next talk in our "Sex and Gender in the Life Sciences" series!

🎤 Prof. Dr. Ute Seeland will present "Sex and Gender in Cardiology"
📅 November 5, 2025
🕠 17:15–18:15 h (CET)
💻 Zoom: uni-due.de/ekfg/sex-and-gender-in-the-life-sciences_2025.php
#SexGenderUDE #sexandgendersensitive
Blue flyer with white text. It announces the "Sex and Gender in the Life Sciences" series. Logos of EKfG, ZMB, ELH, and the University of Duisburg-Essen are displayed at the bottom. Blue flyer with white and dark blue text. It announces the next talk. Title of the talk: "Sex and Gender in Cardiology" Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ute Seeland. Date: November 5, 2025. Time: 5:15 pm. Logos of EKfG, ZMB, ELH, and the University of Duisburg-Essen are displayed at the bottom.
November 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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➡️ New publication with ELH PIs Mark Ladd and Harald Quick: "In Vivo 3D Liver Imaging at 7 T Using kT-Point pTx
Pulses and a 32-Tx-Channel Whole-Body Radiofrequency
Coil Array"
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In Vivo 3D Liver Imaging at 7 T Using kT‐Point pTx Pulses and a 32‐Tx‐Channel Whole‐Body Radiofrequency Coil Array
Using a remote 32-Tx channel coil array static pTx yielded sufficient flip angle (FA) homogeneity in the entire liver in normal BMI subjects. With two kT-points, the homogeneity is improved further t...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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What a fantastic 2025 Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop! Did you enjoy it as much as we did?
If you’d like to rewatch Larry Wald’s keynote “MR technology; from elegant physics to elegant engineering and back again” (or missed it), find it here:
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#HahnLecture25
Golden microphone trophy labelled “Larry Wald” and “Erwin L. Hahn Lecture 2025” on a table with a softly lit background.
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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And that's a wrap on the 2025 Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop! We thank our wonderful speakers, the UDE and RU rectors, the attendees as well as the Oktogon staff and everyone who helped out today. See you all next year! #HahnLecture25
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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And with that, we are already at the final speaker of the 2025 Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop: Sebastian Schmitter from PTB discusses "Towards clinical body imaging at UHF". #HahnLecture25
October 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM