Professor Gregor Adriany has worked in the field of MR Engineering and Ultra High Field (UHF) Research for 25+ years - UHF is MRI at or above 7Tesla. After graduation with a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen, Germany in 1998 he joined the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, USA as research faculty. Over the course of his following academic career, he developed RF frontend and MR coil arrays for the worldwide highest available magnet field strength. Notable is his involvement with the world’s first 7 Tesla, the first 9.4 Tesla and most recently the University of Minnesota’s 10.5 Tesla whole body magnet. The University of Minnesota’s CMRR is worldwide recognized as one of the leading UHF MRI centers and in the US is one of the National Biotechnology Resource Centers. Dr. Adriany leads the CMRR Engineering group and is the Principal Investigator responsible for UHF Engineering aspects. His research team at CMRR is focused on the design of novel transmit array – receive array combinations for both human and animal imaging at 7 Tesla (300 MHz), 10.5 Tesla (450 MHz) and 16.4 Tesla (700 MHz). The group’s most recent research focuses on ultra-fast frontend technology and the extension of RF frontend technology towards 128 receiver channels for 7T and 10.5T and the development of 64, 80 and 128 channel receive human head arrays.
