German Ultrahigh Field Imaging (GUFI)

在过去的几年里，德国已经建立了七个人体超高场（UHF）磁共振（MR）成像中心。为了使更多的研究人员能够使用这种昂贵且高度复杂的技术，UHF MR中心的组织合作至关重要。为了实现这一目标，德国所有的超高频中心都决定建立一个名为德国超高场成像（GUFI）的国家网络，该网络将由埃森和马格德堡的中心协调。在拟议项目内，将在行政和技术层面创建重要的组织结构。特别是，将通过门户网站促进各中心与外部用户之间的交流。该门户网站将使外部用户能够找到最适合其研究问题的UHF MR设施，了解设施分配测量时间的条款和条件，并最终在线预订系统上的测量时间。此外，德国所有UHF MR中心将统一安全相关问题的处理以及法律的和伦理框架。在技术层面上，该项目涉及最新成像协议的交流，特别是开发新方法，以确保所获得的图像和光谱数据的共同质量标准，针对UHF MR系统的挑战进行优化，以便外部用户可以确保理想的条件，并可以比较不同UHF MR系统的测量结果。最后，该项目还将与这一领域的其他举措协调工作，如欧洲生物成像项目（www.eurobioimaging.eu）。

Within the past few years, seven centers for human ultra-high-field (UHF) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging have been set up in Germany. To make this expensive and highly complex technology accessible to a larger number of researchers, organizational cooperation of the UHF MR centers is crucial. To achieve this goal, all German UHF centers have decided to establish a national network called German Ultrahigh Field Imaging (GUFI), which will be coordinated by the centers in Essen and Magdeburg. Within the proposed project, vital organizational structures will be created at both the administrative and technical levels. In particular, communication between the centers and external users will be facilitated via a web portal. This portal will enable external users to find the UHF MR facility best suited to their research question, learn about the terms and conditions of the facility for allocating measurement time, and finally to book measurement time on the systems online. In addition, the handling of safety-related issues and legal and ethical frameworks will be harmonized across all UHF MR centers in Germany. On the technical level, the project involves the exchange of latest imaging protocols and in particular the development of new approaches to ensure common quality standards for the obtained image and spectral data, optimized for the challenges of UHF MR systems, so that external users can be assured of ideal conditions and so that measurements on different UHF MR systems can be compared. Finally, the project will also coordinate its work with other initiatives in this area, such as the Euro-BioImaging project (www.eurobioimaging.eu).