Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Knopp

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Sektion für Biomedizinische Bildgebung
Lottestraße 55
2ter Stock, Raum 209
22529 Hamburg
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Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)
Institut für Biomedizinische Bildgebung
Gebäude E, Raum 4.044
Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 3
21073 Hamburg

Tel.: 040 / 7410 56794
Fax: 040 / 7410 45811
E-Mail: t.knopp(at)uke.de
E-Mail: tobias.knopp(at)tuhh.de
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1589-8517

 

Roles

  • Head of the Institute for Biomedical Imaging
  • Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IJMPI)

Consulting Hours

  • On appointment

Research Interests

  • Tomographic Imaging
  • Image Reconstruction
  • Signal- and Image Processing
  • Magnetic Particle Imaging

Curriculum Vitae

Tobias Knopp received his Diplom degree in computer science in 2007 and his PhD in 2010, both from the University of Lübeck with highest distinction. For his PHD on the tomographic imaging method Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) he was awarded with the Klee award from the DGBMT (VDE) in 2011. From 2010 until 2011 he led the MAPIT project at the University of Lübeck and published the first scientific book on MPI. In 2011 he joined Bruker Biospin to work on the first commercially available MPI system. From 2012 until 2014 he worked at Thorlabs in the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) as a software developer. In 2014 he has been appointed as Professor for experimental Biomedical Imaging at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Hamburg University of Technology.

Publications

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Title: Exploiting the Fourier Neural Operator for Parameter Identification in MPI.
Written by: M. Grosser, M. Möddel, and T. Knopp
in: <em>International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging</em>. (2024).
Volume: <strong>10</strong>. Number: (1 Suppl 1),
on pages: 1-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18416/IJMPI.2024.2403004
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Abstract: Model-based magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a challenging task both due to the complicated underlying physical model and the high numerical effort required for the solution of the corresponding equations of motion. A second challenge for practical applications is the identification of model parameters that are consistent with the given experimental setting and produce accurate predictions of the MPI signals. In this work, we show how the parameter identification problem can be addressed using a learned physics simulator based on the Fourier neural operator. As an application, we show how model-based system matrices can be estimated from a small set of calibration measurements, which can also be interpreted as a model-based approach to system matrix recovery. We compared our approach to established compressed sensing and interpolation schemes and found that it outperformed both.