The Project

We have developed flexible wearable hardware for breast MRI making the exam faster, more comfortable and better suited to the clinical workflow.

We are aiming at making breast MRI more accessible to patients by delivering a complete breast MRI solution including automatic correction of breathing motion to

🌸 make breast MRI comfortable and robust,

🌟 reduce the number of non-diagnostic imaging exams and, thereby,

🏅 make the clinical workflow more cost-effective.

This interdisciplinary bench-to-bedside PhD project aims at translating technological advances in biomedical engineering and data science into new tools applied in the clinics.

During this PhD you will

💡 evaluate motion detection techniques suitable for breast MRI,

🔧 design and develop hardware and/or software to obtain motion data and perform image corrections,

✅ and evaluate your methods in real patient data.

You will be employed at the Medical University of Vienna for 30 hrs/week in the project in addition to the courses of the PhD curriculum Medical Physics.

Our Lab

The Medical University of Vienna is embedded in Vienna’s General Hospital (AKH, Europe’s 5th largest hospital) and located centrally in the city of Vienna. The PhD project will be conducted in the Radio Frequency Lab, which is part of the MR Physics group of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, and located at the High Field MR Center Vienna. Our group operates high performance GPU and CPU servers, a fully equipped radio frequency lab, mechanical workshops and 3 and 7 Tesla MR scanners dedicated to research.

Your Profile

❤️ You are passionate about engineering and software that will have an impact on healthcare.

💬 You are eager to interact with a diverse and interdisciplinary team of scientists.

🛠️ You are skilled in (medical) image processing and scientific writing in English.

🎓 You have a Master’s degree in (Medical) Physics or (Biomedical) Engineering or comparable.

🏡 You are willing to live in Vienna, repeatedly voted the world’s most liveable city!

📧 Send your application including a motivation letter, CV, a list of publications (if applicable) and reference letter(s) to Elmar Laistler ([email protected]) until September 30th, 2025.