Most prestigious German technology prize awarded to Jens Frahm
(WorldNews Health)

The number is gigantic: Within the scope of medical diagnostics, about 100 million examinations are carried out with `magnetic resonance imaging` (MRI) every year - and every scanner worldwide uses technology that was developed by Jens Frahm`s team in Göttingen. The physicist, who is the head of the Biomedical NMR research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, was mainly responsible for the advancement of MRI for clinical use. Back in the early days of MRI in the 1980s, a single cross-sectional image took minutes to acquire. Jens Frahm`s FLASH technology reduced that to seconds - making it at least 100 times faster. This technical progress rendered clinical MRI an...