Ultra-Fast, Spread-Spectrum Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Project Information

SpreadMRI

Grant agreement ID: 834940

DOI

10.3030/834940

Project closed

EC signature date 26 July 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 780 760,00

EU contribution

€ 2 780 760,00

Coordinated by

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

Transceiver 16‐Channel Coaxial‐End Dipole Array for Combined Head and C‐Spine MRI at 9.4 T

Author(s): G. A. Solomakha, F. Glang, M. W. May, S. Mueller, J. Walzog, A. Aghaeifar, D. Bosch, J. Bause, O. Kraff, K. Scheffler, H. H. Quick, N. I. Avdievich
Published in: NMR in Biomedicine, Issue 39, 2026, ISSN 0952-3480
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.70228

High‐resolution deuterium metabolic imaging of the human brain at 9.4 T using phase‐cycled <scp>balanced SSFP</scp> spectral–spatial acquisitions

Author(s): Praveen Iyyappan Valsala, Rolf Pohmann, Rahel Heule, Georgiy A. Solomakha, Nikolai I. Avdievich, Jörn Engelmann, Laura Kuebler, André F. Martins, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 95, 2025, Page(s) 1304-1322, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.70114

Signal‐to‐noise ratio versus field strength for small surface coils

Author(s): Rolf Pohmann, Nikolai I. Avdievich, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: NMR in Biomedicine, Issue 37, 2025, ISSN 0952-3480
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.5168

Evaluation of coaxial dipole antennas as transceiverelements of human head array for ultra-high fieldMRI at 9.4T

Author(s): G. A. Solomakha, D. Bosch, F. Glang, K. Scheffler, N. I. Avdievich
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2023, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29941

Submillimeter <scp>balanced SSFP BOLD–functional MRI</scp> accelerated with <scp>3D</scp> stack‐of‐spirals at 9.4 T

Author(s): Praveen Iyyappan Valsala, Marten Veldmann, Dario Bosch, Klaus Scheffler, Philipp Ehses
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 92, 2024, Page(s) 186-201, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.30064

MRzero -- Fully automated discovery of MRI sequences using supervised learning

Author(s): A Loktyushin; Kai Herz; Nam Dang; F Glang; Anagha Deshmane; Simon Weinmüller; Arnd Doerfler; Bernhard Schölkopf; Klaus Scheffler; Moritz Zaiss
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 86, 2021, Page(s) 709–724, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28727

Phase-based masking for quantitative susceptibility mapping of the human brain at 9.4T

Author(s): Gisela E. Hagberg; Korbinian Eckstein; Elisa Tuzzi; Jiazheng Zhou; Simon Robinson; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 07403194, 2022, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29368

SpinWalk: A Monte Carlo simulator for MR-signal formation in inhomogeneous tissue

Author(s): Ali Aghaeifar, Sebastian Mueller, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Imaging Neuroscience, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2837-6056
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/imag_a_00533

Unshielded bent folded‐end dipole 9.4 T human head transceiver array decoupled using modified passive dipoles

Author(s): Nikolai I. Avdievich; Georgiy Solomakha; L Ruhm; Anke Henning; Anke Henning; Klaus Scheffler; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 2021;86, 2021, Page(s) 581–597., ISSN 1522-2594
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28711

Macrovascular contributions to resting-state fMRI signals: A comparison between EPI and bSSFP at 9.4 Tesla

Author(s): Dana Ramadan, Sebastian Mueller, Ruediger Stirnberg, Dario Bosch, Philipp Ehses, Klaus Scheffler, Jonas Bause
Published in: Imaging Neuroscience, 2026, ISSN 2837-6056
Publisher: MIT-Press
DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.04.602062

FastPtx: a versatile toolbox for rapid, joint design of pTx RF and gradient pulses using Pytorch’s autodifferentiation

Author(s): Dario Bosch; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 1352-8661
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01134-7

Polar Fourier transform in practice: its efficiency and characteristics in reconstructing radially acquired MRI images

Author(s): Fatemeh Rastegar Jooybari, Ali Aghaeifar, Elham Mohammadi, Klaus Scheffler, Abbas Nasiraei-Moghaddam
Published in: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, Issue 39, 2026, Page(s) 21-36, ISSN 1352-8661
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-025-01284-w

Coaxial Dipole Array With Switching Transmit Sensitivities for Ultrahigh Field MRI

Author(s): Dario Bosch, Georgiy A. Solomakha, Felix Glang, Martin Freudensprung, Nikolai Avdievich, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2026, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.70243

Accelerated 2D Cartesian MRI with an 8-channel local B0coil array combined with parallel imaging

Author(s): Rui Tian, Martin Uecker, Mathias Davids, Axel Thielscher, Kai Buckenmaier, Oliver Holder, Theodor Steffen, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 2024;91, 2024, Page(s) 443–465, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29799

Easy scalable, low-cost open-source magnetic field detection system for evaluating low-field MRI magnets using a motion-tracked robot

Author(s): Pavel Povolni, Robin Bendfeld, Sergej Maltsev, Judith Samlow, Felix Glang, Praveen Iyyappan Valsala, Dominique Goerner, Dario Bosch, Sebastian Mueller, Florian Birk, Kai Buckenmaier, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, Issue 38, 2025, Page(s) 695-714, ISSN 1352-8661
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-025-01239-1

A 32‐element loop/dipole hybrid array for human head imaging at <scp>7 T</scp>

Author(s): Nikolai I. Avdievich; Anton V. Nikulin; Loreen Ruhm; Arthur W. Magill; Felix Glang; Anke Henning; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29347

Intra‐scan RF power amplifier drift correction

Author(s): Ali Aghaeifar; Dario Bosch; Rahel Heule; Sydney Williams; Philipp Ehses; Franck Mauconduit; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.30078

Dynamic parallel imaging at 9.4 T using reconfigurable receive coaxial dipoles

Author(s): Georgiy A. Solomakha; Felix Glang; Dario Bosch; Theodor Steffen; Klaus Scheffler; Nikolai I. Avdievich
Published in: NMR in Biomedicine, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 0952-3480
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.5118

Time‐Division Multiplexing for Parallel Transmission at Ultra‐High Field With Limited <scp>RF</scp> Channels

Author(s): Felix Glang, Georgiy A. Solomakha, Dario Bosch, Klaus Scheffler, Nikolai I. Avdievich
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 95, 2026, Page(s) 2580-2593, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.70230

An array of paired folded-end dipoles for whole-brain imaging at 9.4 T

Author(s): K.I. Popova, F. Glang, D. Bosch, K. Scheffler, N.I. Avdievich, S.B. Glybovski, G.A. Solomakha
Published in: Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Issue 368, 2024, Page(s) 107791, ISSN 1090-7807
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2024.107791

Magnetic properties of iron-filled hydrogel clusters: a model system for quantitative susceptibility mapping with MRI

Author(s): Gisela E. Hagberg; Gisela E. Hagberg; Jörn Engelmann; Eberhard Göring; Enrique G. Cuña; Enrique G. Cuña; Klaus Scheffler; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Frontiers in Physics, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2296-424X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2023.1209505

Prediction of motion induced magnetic fields for human brain MRI at 3 T

Author(s): Jiazheng Zhou; Gisela E. Hagberg; Ali Aghaeifar; Jonas Bause; Maxim Zaitsev; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, Issue 36, 2023, Page(s) 797–813, ISSN 1352-8661
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01076-0

Double-row 16-element folded-end dipole transceiver arrayfor 3D RF shimming of the whole human brain at 9.4 T

Author(s): Anton V. Nikulin, Dario Bosch, Georgiy A. Solomakha, Felix Glang, Klaus Scheffler, Nikolai I. Avdievich
Published in: NMR in Biomedicine, 2023, ISSN 0952-3480
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4981

Overlap‐Kernel <scp>EPI</scp> : Estimating <scp>MRI</scp> Shot‐to‐Shot Phase Variations by Shifted‐Kernel Extraction From Overlap Regions at Arbitrary k‐Space Locations

Author(s): Rui Tian, Martin Uecker, Maxim Zaitsev, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 95, 2026, Page(s) 2131-2152, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.70196

Reconfigurable dipole receive array for dynamic parallelimaging at ultra-high magnetic field

Author(s): Anton V. Nikulin, Felix Glang, Nikolai I. Avdievich, Dario Bosch, Theodor Steffen, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2023, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29745

Intravascular BOLD signal characterization of balanced SSFP experiments in human blood at high to ultrahigh fields

Author(s): Marlon Pérez-Rodas, Klaus Scheffler, Rahel Heule
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 2021;85, 2021, Page(s) 2055–2068, ISSN 1522-2594
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28575

Field Strength‐Dependent White Matter <i>R</i> ₁ and <i>R</i> ₂ Anisotropy of Phase‐Cycled Balanced Steady‐State Free Precession Relaxometry

Author(s): Florian Birk, Hamzeh Tesh, Ali Aghaeifar, Svenja Klinkowski, Praveen Iyyappan Valsala, Sebastian Mueller, Svenja Brodt, Klaus Scheffler, Rahel Heule
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 95, 2026, Page(s) 2873-2891, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.70255

Double-Row Dipole/Loop Combined Array for Human Whole Brain Imaging at 7 T

Author(s): Nikolai I. Avdievich; Anton V. Nikulin; Loreen Ruhm; Arthur W. Magill; Anke Henning; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: NMR in Biomedicine, Issue 09523480, 2022, ISSN 0952-3480
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4773

Optimized ultrahigh field parallel transmission workflow using rapid presaturated TurboFLASH transmit field mapping with a three‐dimensional centric single‐shot readout

Author(s): Dario Bosch; Jonas Bause; Ole Geldschläger; Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 0740-3194
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29459

Folded-end dipole transceiver array for human whole-brain imaging at 7 T

Author(s): Nikolai I. Avdievich, Georgiy Solomakha, Loreen Ruhm, Anton V. Nikulin, Arthur W. Magill, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: NMR in Biomedicine, Issue 2021;34, 2021, Page(s) 4541-4555, ISSN 1099-1492
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4541

MR-double-zero - Proof-of-concept for a framework to autonomously discover MRI contrasts

Author(s): Felix Glang; Sebastian Mueller; Kai Herz; Alexander Loktyushin; Klaus Scheffler; Moritz Zaiss
Published in: Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Issue 10907807, 2022, ISSN 1090-7807
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2022.107237

Accelerated MRI at 9.4 T with electronically modulated time-varying receive sensitivities

Author(s): Felix Glang, Anton V. Nikulin, Jonas Bause, Rahel Heule, Theodor Steffen, Nikolai Avdievich, Klaus Scheffler
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Issue 2022; ahead of print, 2022, Page(s) 1–15, ISSN 1522-2594
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29245