Division 8 Medical Physics and Metrological Information Technology

As "air pollutants", the soot aerosols contained in exhaust emissions contribute not only to environmental pollution, but they are also an essential source of the greenhouse effect. An optimization based on numerical flow simulations considerably improves the diagnosis of soot particle concentrations.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease which affects approx. 1 % of the population and is probably caused by autoimmune reactions; it is classified as a rheumatic disorder. The disease is painful for the patients, they experience restricted mobility of their joints and ...

Multiple Sklerose (MS) ist die häufigste chronisch-entzündliche Erkrankung des Zentralnervensystems in Mitteleuropa. Moderne Konzepte gehen davon aus, dass die strukturellen Hirnschäden bei MS durch bereits in der Frühphase der Erkrankung ablaufende neurodegenerative Prozesse mitverursacht werden. Allerdings wurden die Beziehungen zwischen unterschiedlichen Orten ...

At PTB, a statistical procedure has been developed to analyse sandwich ELISAs, which facilitates the reliable estimation of concentrations such as the interferon IFN alfa-2b.

The international guideline “Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement” (GUM. ISO/IEC Guide 98-3:2008) has become the basis for calculation of measurement uncertainties worldwide. Mathematical algorithms are regulated, but not their software implementation. It is therefore important that a software product, claiming to be a GUM implementation, undergoes ...

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) techniques can provide a wealth of additional information with respect to MR imaging by quantifying concentrations of MR-sensitive substances. For example, proton (¹H) MRS in the human brain ...