Technologies with a promising future
All these innovations combined are creating a new class of scanners that is opening up MRI diagnostics to new patient populations worldwide. Two years after their launch, Magnetom Free.Star and Magetnom Free.Max are available in many countries around the world, including Brazil, India, and Angola. Yemen even saw the installation of its first modern MRI in over a decade. Access to MRI diagnostics could also be improved in countries such as Germany. Here, in the Pediatric Radiology Department of Uniklinikum Erlangen, Magnetom Free.Max could be installed in a room close to the intensive care unit so that young patients can be examined more easily. It is also conceivable that, in the future, MRI units might be installed directly in the intensive care unit, in order to save patient transport and waiting times.
Technologies developed specifically for the Magnetom Free. Platform, such as AI-based image reconstruction, have already been made available for other, “larger” MRI systems that are also being used in clinical routine and research. In the medium term, the “dry magnet” technology will also play an important role for other model series developed and manufactured in Erlangen, Germany.
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Together with their teams, the three nominees have helped make sure that Magnetom Free was brought to market and became established in everyday clinical practice. Stephan Biber, in his role as system architect, was responsible for driving the trend-setting hardware innovations and bringing them together into an overall system. David Grodzki’s task was the application development and the elaboration of the system specification as well as its implementation as a clinically high-quality imaging system. Michael Uder conducted the first clinical evaluations of the Magnetom Free.Max system during development and he continued this work at Uniklinikum Erlangen, the world’s first clinical installation. Together with his department, he was responsible for clinical testing and the integration of Magnetom Free.Max into clinical routine.
The Federal President’s Award for Technology and Innovation is one of Germany’s most prestigious awards in this space and will be presented to one of three nominated teams by Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on November 22.
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