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Wyger Brink

Wyger Brink is assistant professor in interventional MRI at the Multi-Modality Medical Imaging group at the University of Twente, and at the Department of Medical Imaging, Radboudumc. With a background in Electrical Engineering he has received his doctoral degree in MRI technology at the Leiden University, which lead to several open-source software tools, commercialization of a quality assurance phantom and CE-certified medical devices for correcting image artifacts in high-field MRI. As a VENI laureate, he developed software algorithms to enable personalized safety margins in MRI. His research interests include improving the efficiency and interactivity of MRI to enable real-time guidance of interventional procedures.

Highlight Publications:

• Reduction of RF Heating Near Bilateral Deep Brain Stimulation Leads Using Two-Channel RF Shimming at 3T
• Personalized local SAR prediction for parallel transmit neuroimaging at 7T from a single T1-weighted dataset
• Radiofrequency safety of high permittivity pads in MRI—Impact of insulation material
• High-permittivity pad design tool for 7T neuroimaging and 3T body imaging
• A theoretical approach based on electromagnetic scattering for analysing dielectric shimming in high-field MRI