Research Overview & Research Vision
At the Metrology Lab we develop magnetic measurement and imaging methods that obtain information where conventional approaches reach their limits – deep inside the body, without ionising radiation, without cabling, and without a line of sight.
Magnetic fields penetrate tissue and technical materials almost undisturbed, which makes them a unique carrier of quantitative measurement information. This idea connects our two research areas: Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) together with the closely related Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy (MPS), and magneto-mechanical resonators (MMRs).
Both fields follow the same methodological line – from physical modelling through low-noise instrumentation and signal processing to solving the inverse problem that reconstructs quantitative quantities such as position, orientation, concentration or physical measurands from the measured signals. Our vision is to make these magnetic methods more sensitive, more precise and more reliable, and to bring them out of the laboratory into robust medical and technical applications.