TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ladd, Mark E
AU  - Quick, Harald H
AU  - Speck, Oliver
AU  - Bock, Michael
AU  - Doerfler, Arnd
AU  - Forsting, Michael
AU  - Hennig, Jürgen
AU  - Ittermann, Bernd
AU  - Möller, Harald E
AU  - Nagel, Armin M
AU  - Niendorf, Thoralf
AU  - Remy, Stefan
AU  - Schaeffter, Tobias
AU  - Scheffler, Klaus
AU  - Schlemmer, Heinz-Peter
AU  - Schmitter, Sebastian
AU  - Schreiber, Laura
AU  - Shah, N Jon
AU  - Stöcker, Tony
AU  - Uder, Michael
AU  - Villringer, Arno
AU  - Weiskopf, Nikolaus
AU  - Zaiss, Moritz
AU  - Zaitsev, Maxim
TI  - Germany's journey toward 14 Tesla human magnetic resonance.
JO  - Magnetic resonance materials in physics, biology and medicine
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SN  - 0968-5243
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Springer
M1  - DZNE-2023-00467
SP  - 191-210
PY  - 2023
AB  - Multiple sites within Germany operate human MRI systems with magnetic fields either at 7 Tesla or 9.4 Tesla. In 2013, these sites formed a network to facilitate and harmonize the research being conducted at the different sites and make this technology available to a larger community of researchers and clinicians not only within Germany, but also worldwide. The German Ultrahigh Field Imaging (GUFI) network has defined a strategic goal to establish a 14 Tesla whole-body human MRI system as a national research resource in Germany as the next progression in magnetic field strength. This paper summarizes the history of this initiative, the current status, the motivation for pursuing MR imaging and spectroscopy at such a high magnetic field strength, and the technical and funding challenges involved. It focuses on the scientific and science policy process from the perspective in Germany, and is not intended to be a comprehensive systematic review of the benefits and technical challenges of higher field strengths.
KW  - Humans
KW  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging: methods
KW  - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
KW  - Whole Body Imaging: methods
KW  - Germany
KW  - Magnetic Fields
KW  - 14T (Other)
KW  - Extremely high field (Other)
KW  - GUFI (Other)
KW  - MRI (Other)
KW  - Ultrahigh field (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C2  - pmc:PMC10140098
C6  - pmid:37029886
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s10334-023-01085-z
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/257591
ER  -