Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Department of Neurosurgery
Position: Research Associate (Postdoc)
ORCID: 0000-0002-3986-3159
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Keywords
Functional Magnetic Resonance; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Ultrahigh field MRI
Research group(s)
- Hangel Lab
Head: Gilbert Hangel
Research Area: 7T MRI, 7T MRSI, MRI of epilepsy, MRI of brain tumours, intraoperative MRI
Members: - High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
Research Area: musculoskeletal MR; neuroimaging; metabolic MR imaging and spectroscopy
Members: - intraoperative MRI
Head: Gilbert Hangel
Research Area: Development, optimisation and application of advanced MRI methods (morphological, functional, metabolic) for intraoperative MRI devices
Members: - Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Head: Wolfgang Bogner
Research Area: Development and clinical evaluation of Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques at high (3T) and ultra-high (7T) human whole-body MR scanners
Members:
Research interests
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI)
- Intraoperative MRI
- MR Sequence design and development
- Ultra-high field MR
- MRI and MRSI applications for neurosurgery (glioma, epilepsy)
My overall research goal is to progress MRI for neurosurgical applications, so that future treatment outcomes can be improved by offering better information to the surgeons.
My current research topics:
Beyond these, I am also committed to science education and public dissemination. Please contact me if you want me to participate in an event, give tours or presentations, or have questions about MRI.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
- High-resolution and ultra-high-resolution MRSI of the brain at 7 T
- Development of quantitative metabolic imaging
- MRSI application to patient studies with a focus on neurosurgical applications
- Intraoperative MRI (including applications of MRS and fMRI)
- Advanced MRI protocols for brain tumours
- MRI and MRSI of epilepsy
Grants
- EPICONN (2025)
Source of Funding: LBG (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft), Klinische Forschungsgruppen
Coordinator of the collaborative project - MRSI-VSC (2024)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Schrödinger
Principal Investigator - Hochauflösende neurochemische Epilepsie-Bildgebung (2022)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Klinische Forschung
Principal Investigator - QTIME - Quantitatives 7T MRSI in Tumoren (2022)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Klinische Forschung
Principal Investigator - 3D 2HG Bildgebung als Biomarker für IDH-Mutation in Gliomen (2017)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Programme Clinical Research
Principal Investigator
Selected publications
- Hangel, G. et al. (2018) ‘Ultra-high resolution brain metabolite mapping at 7 T by short-TR Hadamard-encoded FID-MRSI’, NeuroImage, 168, pp. 199–210. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.10.043.
- Hangel, G. et al. (2025) “High-Resolution Mapping of Tumor and Peritumoral Glutamate and Glutamine in Gliomas Using 7-T MRSI,” Radiology: Imaging Cancer. Edited by , 7(5). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1148/rycan.240494.
- Hangel, G. et al. (2023) ‘Advanced MR Techniques for Preoperative Glioma Characterization: Part 2’, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 57(6), pp. 1676–1695. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.28663.
- Hangel, G. et al. (2022) ‘7T HR FID-MRSI Compared to Amino Acid PET: Glutamine and Glycine as Promising Biomarkers in Brain Tumors’, Cancers, 14(9), p. 2163. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14092163.
- Hangel, G. et al. (2023) ‘Implementation of a 7T Epilepsy Task Force consensus imaging protocol for routine presurgical epilepsy work-up: effect on diagnostic yield and lesion delineation’, Journal of Neurology, 271(2), pp. 804–818. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11988-5.