News

Patrick Saalfeld has submitted his Phd thesis “3D User Interfaces for Interventional Support and Medical Education” summarizing his work on spatial interaction techniques and devices to support medical treatment planning and education. The developed interaction techniques used on immersive systems resulted in several prices including the Eurographics Medical Price, MedVis-Award and the ElbeDome Award. Patrick’s work was funded by a fellowship from Sachsen-Anhalt and within the BMWi project “Virtual Anatomy”.

Nico Merten was given the “Held der Lehre” Award for his excercise on “Information Visualization” in Summer term 2017 by the Faculties’ student organization.

On May, 24th the ElbeDome (Europe’s largest 3D mixed reality laboratory) was reopened after modernization. For this event, applications demonstrating the capabilities of the ElbeDome could be submitted. The team of Benjamin Behrendt, Lisa Piotrowski, and Patrick Saalfeld (alphabetical order) developed the VR application “Inside Circulus arteriosus”. Here, the user is able to explore the Circle of Willis comprising its arteries, blood flow and surrounding skull. Their submission was awarded with the 2nd place.

Foto: Victoria Kühne / Fraunhofer IFF

• 

We gladly announce the German Research Foundation (DFG) approval for our GEPARD (GEfäßwandsimulation und -visualisierung zur Patientenindividualisierten Blutflussvorhersage für die intrakranielle AneuRysmamoDellierung) proposal. The project was developed by Dr.-Ing. Sylvia Saalfeld and Dr.-Ing. Philipp Berg. The 3-year project comprises two PhD-positions and aims at blood flow simulation and visualization of patient-specific intracranial aneurysms. Intracranial aneurysms and their associated rupture risk have been active research areas of both applicants for the last years. With the GEPARD project, especially the morphology of the intracranial vessel wall and its influence on the subsequent blood flow simulation will be examined. Furthermore, the extravascular space will be incorporated into the analyses as well. The project will be carried out in close cooperation with the neuroradiology department of the university hospital Magdeburg and will be integrated into the Forschungscampus STIMULATE.

A team lead by Patrick Saalfeld recieved the 2nd price of the MedVis-Award (Karl-Heinz-Höhne Award). The price was handed over at the annual meeting of the VCBM working group. The succesful contribution demonstrates how vascular structures and annotations can be sketched interactively to support treamtent planning and medical education. The sketching is performed with the semi-immersive zSpace. Benjamin Behrendt presented his latest work regarding the explorative visualization of cerebral and cardiac bloodflow data at the same meeting.

• 

Kai Lawonn successfully defended his Habilitation thesis „Visual Enhancement of Focus Structures in Selected Applications“. In his thesis, Kai summarizes interdisciplinary research with archeologists, engineers and physicians. His newly developed techniques emphasize low-contrast linear structures, visualize multimodal medical image data and improve the visualization of blood flow, vascular structures and wall-thickness.

• 

•