Facility Details

MRDAC is an official core facility of the medical faculty of the University of Freiburg and is registered in the RIsources database of the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the number RI_00444.

The MR Development and Application Center origins in the Medical Physics group, Dept. of Radiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, one of the internationally leading groups in the field of methodological developments in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy and its application in clinics and research.
MRDAC was established in 2001 to serve as a platform for collaborations with partners in industry and research according to industrial quality and performance standards. The incorporation of MRDAC as an institution of the University Medical Center Freiburg allows us to incorporate the expertise and excellence of clinicians and scientists from a wide range of fields into our projects and services. Thus, it serves as an interface between the scientific activities of the Medical Physics group and professional users in industry and academia.

The main branches of MRDAC include
- the development of novel MR sequences and methods and
- design, implementation, and execution of pharmaceutical MR studies.

In addition we offer services such as teaching, training, and consulting on-site as well as in Freiburg.