German Ultrahigh Field Imaging (GUFI)

在过去的几年里，德国已经建立了七个人类超高场磁共振(UHF)磁共振成像中心。为了让更多的研究人员能够接触到这项昂贵而高度复杂的技术，超高频磁共振中心的组织合作至关重要。为了实现这一目标，德国所有的UHF中心都决定建立一个名为德国超高场成像(GUFI)的全国网络，由埃森和马格德堡的中心协调。在拟议的项目范围内，将在行政和技术两级建立重要的组织结构。特别是，中心与外部用户之间的交流将通过一个门户网站得到便利。这个门户将使外部用户能够找到最适合他们的研究问题的超高频磁共振设备，了解该设备用于分配测量时间的条款和条件，并最终在系统上在线预订测量时间。此外，德国所有的超高频磁共振中心将统一处理与安全相关的问题以及法律和道德框架。在技术层面，该项目涉及交流最新的成像协议，特别是开发新的方法，以确保获得的图像和光谱数据的共同质量标准，针对超高频磁共振系统的挑战进行优化，以便外部用户能够确保理想的条件，从而可以比较不同超高频磁共振系统的测量结果。最后，该项目还将与这一领域的其他举措协调工作，例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).