04.05.2022Cardiac CT is ready for use in stable chest pain in clinical practice. This is demonstrated by the DISCHARGE study in a Europe-wide project with...
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Noninvasive Imaging Heisenberg Group
Team Dewey
Noninvasive Imaging Heisenberg Research Group
Charité Prof. Marc Dewey’s research group focuses on radiology, non-invasive cardiovascular imaging as well as general medical imaging – from experimental research and technical developments over clinical studies to outcomes research including cost-effectiveness, meta-analyses and clinical decision support systems.
Our working group receives funding from the German Research Foundation through the Heisenberg Professorship Program. The main scientific vision of Marc Dewey’s Heisenberg Professorship is to span the divide between technical, molecular, and functional aspects of cardiovascular imaging and evidence-based medicine.
We plan to further advance non-invasive cardiovascular imaging in the future by technical developments based on image segmentation, dose optimization, and quantification. For this, the extended collaboration between radiology, cardiology, physics, biology, mathematics and computer science is intended. If you are interested in working with us on these ambitious projects, please do not hesitate to make contact.
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NEWS
AG member Nader Aldoj publicates on fully automated MRI quantification of prostate
Congratulations to our Team member Nader. Magnetic resonance elastography combined with Dense U-net segmentation allows tabulation of quantitative imaging markers without manual analysis and independent...
READ MOREProf. Dewey elected, congratulations!
The results of the 2022 ESR Electronic Elections are in! Congratulations to Andrea Rockall, Christian Loewe, Marion Smits and to our Prof. Marc Dewey on their new...
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1/2 Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen sind hierzulande noch immer die häufigste Todesursache. Der Vorstand der #CharitéBerlin und die Friede ...Springer Stiftung unterzeichneten heute gemeinsam mit der Regierenden Bürgermeisterin @FranziskaGiffey, der Gesundheitssenatorin Ulrike Gote...
Great @Visualmedapp abstract of #DISCHARGE trial.
@team_dewey, @PalMaurovich, @kkofoed1, @JRodriPalomares, @JuhaniKnuuti, ...@gudrunfeuchtner, @zsofidrobni, @Balint_CCTA, @UCDProfDodd
#yescct #radiology #cardiotwitter
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Research Projects

Radiomics
Priority Programme for the investigation of coronary flow.
Radiomics: Next Generation of Biomedical Imaging

Fractal Analysis
The DFG-project “Fractal Analysis” driven by Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey and Dr. Florian Michallek as well as the Mercator Fellowship Professor Kakuya Kitagawa.
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Training – Skills, Knowledge
The scientific activities in the Department of Radiology cover a broad spectrum of highly interesting research areas, from basic research and clinical trials to topics ranging from molecular imaging to interventional radiology.
The broad spectrum of special clinical topics at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin provides an excellent basis for solid and comprehensive training programs at the Department of Radiology.
In addition to the regular clinic-internal meetings of the radiology department (case presentations, morbidity & mortality conferences, presentation of scientific projects and results, safety briefings, strategic discussions, etc.), a 45-minute advanced training course for our physicians in continuing education takes place once a week.
The training has been in existence since 2003 and will be offered additionally from September 2013 in the form of a curriculum relevant to specialists, specifically weighted according to radiological sub-areas, with a total of 99 defined topics. The curriculum can thus be completed by assistant doctors during the specialist training period slightly more than twice before the specialist examination is due.
The training is usually conducted by specialists and senior physicians, taking into account their special expertise (note: many of our clinic’s staff are recognized speakers at national and international congresses).
The advanced training has proven its worth for several years and now takes place at all three camps of the Charité.
Our Trainings
Promotionskolleg
The doctoral college of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin offers students and doctoral students of the Charité an extensive and free offer of student tutorials on basic skills of scientific work and is at the same time a non-binding contact for general questions about doctoral studies.
The tutorials are:
- conceived and implemented by the student staff of the doctoral college
- evaluated by the participants
- supported by a scientific advisory board
The doctoral school was founded in 2003 by Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey with the aim of continuously improving the situation of doctoral students at the Charité as well as the quality of scientific doctorates.
To this day, our goal is to pass on experiences and advice from doctoral students to other doctoral students, and we consider it a challenge to promote the exchange of knowledge and encounters between these doctoral students.
Find out more: https://promotionskolleg.charite.de/en/
Cardiac CT Hands-on Course
There have been dramatic technical advances in computed tomography for imaging of the heart and particularly the coronary arteries. During the course participants will train with 100 cardiac CT cases of invasive angiography correlation. Also, overview lectures on patient preparation and scanning, as well as Image reconstruction and reading will be given.
Participants of our course (maximum enrollment of 20) are becoming familiar with the new options of state-of-the-art cardiac imaging and expand their skills through practical exercises during 5 days on their dedicated workstations.
The course information can be found here: https://herz-kurs.de
Prof. Dr.
Marc Dewey
About – Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey
The founder and head of this radiological research group.
A short curriculum vitae of Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey can be viewed here.
The Crew
Our Team
Team Dewey consists of an interdisciplinary team of scientists (mathematicians, computer scientists, biologists) and clinicians (radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, cardiologists) working side-by-side at Charité in Berlin on noninvasive cardiovascular imaging research. Using the following graph you can get to known all team members.

Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey
Founder
Position: Group leader and radiologist
Interests: Badminton, hiking
Abilities: Motivating, collaboration

PD Dr. Elke Zimmermann
Deputy
Position: Head of Emergency Radiology
Interests: Diagnostic Radiology, Cardiovascular Diagnostic
Abilities: Kayaking

Dr. Matthias Rief
Deputy
Position: Staff radiologist, Section Chief Computed Tomography
Interests: CT
Abilities: Certified study coordinator

Dr. Melanie Estrella
Team Lead & Project Management
Position: Project Management DISCHARGE
Interests: Clinical Trials
Abilities: Coordination
Clinical Trials Team
Further information: https://www.dischargetrial.eu/
Grants: EU https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/603266

Dr. Maria Bosserdt
Team Lead
Position: Project Management in DISCHARGE
Interests: Hiking, Travelling
Abilities: Graphical Displays

Dr. Eser Isler
Physician
Position: MD/PhD student
Interests: Yoga, Boardgames, Series
Abilities: Python

Dr. Elisa Iwan
Physician
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Bass Guitar, Travelling, Sports

Daniel Preuss
Physician
Position: Physician and medical doctor´s candidate
Interests: Research in CT-Perfusion, Photography, Road biking

Dr. Julian Pohlan
Physician
Interests: Infectious diseases, Inflammation and Imaging
Abilities: CT-guided interventions

Mahmoud Mohamed
Statistician
Interests: Music, Dancing, Horse riding
Abilities: Statistical learning

Bohdan Pryplotskyi
Statistician
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Katrin Stoyanova
Medical Student
Interests: Dancing, Singing and Playing the piano
Abilities: Fluent in three languages
Fractal Analysis Lab
Further information: https://www.drg.de/de-DE/5171/erster-dfg-mercator-fellow-radiologie/
Grants: DFG https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/392304398?language=en

Dr. Florian Michallek
Team Lead
Position: Physician, clinician scientist
Interests: Pathophysiological modeling, perfusion
Abilities: Radiology, programming

Nader Aldoj
Engineer
Position: Medical Engineer
Interests: Dancing
Abilities: Programming

Federico Biavati
Physician
Position: MD/PhD Student and Physician
Interests: Scuba diving, cooking, reading, technology
Abilities: Tech-savy, fluent in three languages
Meta Research Team
Further information: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1945
Grants: DFG/BMBF COME-CCT project

Viktoria Wieske
Team Lead, Physician
Position: Physician at the Department of Radiology
Interests: Research in Cardiac CT
Abilities: Sports, Travel, Hockey, Golf, Reading

Maria Coenen
Physician
Position: Physician, Doctoral student
Interests: Reading, Nature, Animals, and Psychosomatic Medicine
Abilities: Quality Assessment of SRs and MAs

Benjamin Kendziora
Physician
Position: Physician
Interests: Reading, sports, music
Abilities: statistics in meta-analysis, programming with R

Anne-Sophie Tietz
Physician
Position: Assistant dentist & doctoral student
Interests: Traveling, Sports (Fitness, Skiing), Cultural events, Food
Abilities: To be empathetic, ambitious, reliable, creative

Heli Stier
Medical Student
Position: Doctoral Candidate: Conflicts of Interest
Interests: Scuba Diving, Cooking, Tech & Informatics, Traveling
Abilities: Nurse
Deep Learning & Radiomics

Dr. Christian Wald
Team Lead - Heart
Position: Mathematician
Interests: Deep Learning
Abilities: Parkour

Dr. Steffen Lukas
Team Lead Radiomics - Mathematician
Position: Experimental radiology
Interests: Farmer, dancer, captain
Abilities: Dipl. Mathematician

Nader Aldoj
Team Lead - Tumor
Position: Medical Engineer
Interests: Dancing
Abilities: Programming

Bernhard Föllmer
PhD Student
Position: PhD Student
Interests: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Futsal, Travel
Abilities: Programming, passionate “Maker”
Graduate Program

PD Dr. Elke Zimmermann
Team Lead
Position: Head of Emergency Radiology
Interests: Diagnostic Radiology, Cardiovascular Diagnostic
Abilities: Kayaking

Alina Muskala
Tutor
Position: Tutor
Interests: Sports
Abilities: MiS for Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution.

Gvantca Gulua
Tutor
Position: Promotionskolleg
Interests: Photo, Video and Audio editing, opera singing and singing in general, jazz dance

Catherine Caridia
Tutor
Position: Medical Student
Interests: making the Promotions Tutorials digitally accessible to Students
Abilities: ICU Nurse, BA Humanity

Vivienne Salow
Tutor
Position: Promotionskolleg Tutor
Interests: Animals and good food

Zhiyang Wu
Tutor
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Swimming, Snowboarding
Abilities: Mass spectrometry, Proteomics, nucleic acids (cloning)

Moritz Gross
Tutor
Position: MD/PhD Student
Interests: Music, Theater, Speciality Coffee
Abilities: Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Image Segmentation

Simon Andrzejewski
Tutor
Position: Doctoral candidate
Interests: Motorcycles, Music, CrossFit, Surfing
Outreach
In Touch with everybody
Several sources of information are available about what we do to ensure public interest, outreach to society, and impact of our research efforts. Some selected links to media reports can be found below.
Prof. Dewey in the “Zeit Wissen” Podcast
“Germany’s best-known university hospital is experimenting with hypnosis techniques. In the ZEIT WISSEN podcast, the doctors report on their initial...
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What do patients, doctors, radiographers and AI developers say? The answers are finally here, from our @BerlinUAlliance Project with @gersch_martin, Birgit Beck from @TUBerlin, Jenny...
READ MOREInternational stroke day
On the occasion of the international stroke day, Dr. Eberhard Siebert from Neuroradiology has provided a blogpost about imaging and...
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Out of Campus Research
The working group members are not only curious explorers of medical imaging. Other kind of exploration we do looks like this…
Perspectives Meeting / Summer Excursion
After such an incredible year, the whole working group was looking forward to joint activities again. Normally, the group presents...
READ MORESummer excursion: Nikolaiviertel + coffee tasting
On a very summery day in June, the Dewey workgroup started an excursion to the beginnings of the city of...
READ MORESummer excursion through Prenzlauer Berg 2019
The Dewey AG is not only researching the hottest topics of radiology, but we’re also curious explorers of our city...
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Research
Our German speaking patients who would like to get more information about what we do and how to participate in our cardiovascular imaging research, please feel free to contact us.
Outreach
Our German speaking patients who would like to get more information about what we do and how to participate in our cardiovascular imaging research, please feel free to contact us.

2020
The Charité Radiology programme has been granted the Certificate of excellence.
The institution provides an advanced training program of subspecialisation and research in accordance with the ETC (ESR European Training Curriculum) with all the modalities of imaging available. We are incredibly proud to have contributed to this award.
Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Research Group
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Radiology Department
Luisenstr. 13
10117 Berlin
Germany
Email: assistenz.dewey(at)charite.de
Tel.: +49 30 450 527353
Fax: +49 30 450 7527920