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Prof. Pfeiffer and Dr. Daniela Pfeiffer will presented in the APS physics Webinar Series on COVID Research and Resources Group a webinar on "X-ray Darkfield Contrast for Improved COVID-19 Detection in Chest X-Rays - Basic Physics & First Clinical Results" Abstract: Diseases of the respiratory…

Two-part TV report (in German) on TUM's corona research gives insights into the work of MSB Director Franz Pfeiffer on dark field imaging and MSB-PI Nassir Navab on the automatic evaluation of CT images

In the following video, Prof. Pfeiffer explains how dark-field radiography works and how it can benefit the current diagnosis imaging.  Click here -->  Video 

In the podcast, Franz Pfeiffer talks about how X-rays were discovered by chance, what they are used for today and how information from X-ray imaging that has not been used up to now can be made available for clinical applications.

Great presentation of Juanjuan Huang at the Global XAS Journal Club on Energy Dispersive XAS at the Munich Compact Light Source. Abstract: X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is an important characterization method but has been carried out mostly at large facilities, limiting the power as a routine…

The Master’s program “Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics” has begun in digital form

Low-dose radiographs could reveal typical lung changes

Great success by the 9th IMXP International Symposium held at the new TranslaTUM building across the Klinikum rechts der Isar.  A selected panel of invited speakers shared with the group their expertise on phase-contrast imaging.  Local and international participants gathered to share their projects…

Cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke are the leading causes of death. In order to understand the development of these diseases and to determine the factors that increase the risk, one needs imaging methods that can visualize the related changes in the blood vessels in great…

X-rays and fluorescence imaging of the lungs of a mouse enable tracking of drug delivery