Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Volkmar Schulz

Head of Institute

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 +49 241 80 27860
 volkmar.schulz@lfb.rwth-aachen.de



Curriculum Vitae

2024 – Present W3 Professor for Imaging and Computer Vision RWTH Aachen University Aachen, Germany
2019 – Present Principal Scientist for AI-based imaging and image reconstruction Fraunhofer MEVIS Aachen, Germany
2019 – Present CEO/CTO and Cofounder Hyperion Hybrid Imaging Systems GmbH Aachen, Germany
2018 – 2024 W2 Professor for Physics in Molecular Imaging (PMI) RWTH Aachen University Aachen, Germany
2013 – 2018 W2 Professor / Principal Scientist – Oncology Solutions RWTH Aachen University / Philips Research Laboratories Aachen, Germany
2009 – 2013 Principal Scientist – Oncology Solutions Philips Research Laboratories Aachen, Germany
2004 – 2009 Senior Scientist – Positron Emission Tomography & Magnetic Resonance Imaging Philips Research Laboratories Aachen, Germany
2003 – 2004 System Architect – Intensive Care Draeger Medical Lübeck, Germany
2000 – 2003 Research Scientist – Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems Philips Research Laboratories Hamburg, Germany
1996 – 2000 Research Assistant – Theoretical Electrical Engineering University of Paderborn Paderborn, Germany

 


Publications

 

Journal publications

 

 
2026

Harald Radermacher, Magdalena Kunz, Franziska Schrank, Dennis Pantke, Florian Müller and Volkmar Adolf Schulz
Investigation of impact of tuning coil loading on particle signal harmonics in multi-frequency MPI
In: International journal on magnetic particle imaging : IJMPI 12 (1S1)

2026

Julian Thull, Jan Remennik, David Schug, Bjoern Weissler, Yannick Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
Uncertainty-aware gamma interaction localization and reconstruction in PET
In: Medical Physics 53 (5)

2026

Julian Thull, Yannick Kuhl, Florian Mueller, David Schug, Bjoern Weissler and Volkmar Schulz
Beyond mechanics: Maximum-likelihood-driven PET detector alignment calibration
In: Medical Physics 53 (1)

 
2025

Marcel Ochsendorf, Emilia Yin-Großmann, Kostiantyn Lavronenko and Volkmar Schulz
Nonlinear model-based b0 field compensation in low-field mri using hall sensor arrays and spatial interpolation
In: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine 38 (1)

 
2025

Rüveyda Yilmaz, Julian Thull, Johannes Stegmaier and Volkmar Schulz
Diffusion-based Sinogram Interpolation for Limited Angle PET
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.09383

 
2025

Franziska Schrank, Harald Radermacher, Jochen Franke, Sébastien Breham, Fabian Kiessling and Volkmar Schulz
Evaluation of a mouse-sized radial gradiometer receive coil for magnetic particle imaging
In: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

 
2025

Vanessa Nadig, Stefan Gundacker, Katrin Herweg, Stephan Naunheim, David Schug, Bjoern Weissler and Volkmar Schulz
ASICs in PET: what we have and what we need
In: EJNMMI Physics 12 (1)

 
2025

Qibin Wang, Kaixiong Yang, Lingwen Hou, Haohao Yan, Yu Zeng, Yihan Wang, Franziska Schrank, Harald Radermacher, Volkmar Schulz and Shouping Zhu
Enhancing the Sensitivity and Detection Depth of a Single-Sided Magnetic Particle Spectrometer Using Ferrite Cores
In: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

2025

Louis-Daniel Gaulin, Vanessa Nadig, Katrin Herweg, Gaëtan Lemaire, Frédéric Gagnon, Jonathan Bouchard, Julien Rossignol, Volkmar Schulz, Réjean Fontaine and Stefan Gundacker
Study of the TOFPET2c ASIC in time-of-flight detection of x-rays for scatter rejection in medical imaging applications
In: Physics in Medicine & Biology

2024

Yannick Kuhl, Florian Mueller, Stephan Naunheim, Matthias Bovelett, Janko Lambertus, David Schug, Bjoern Weissler, Eike Gegenmantel, Pierre Gebhardt and Volkmar Schulz
A Finely Segmented Semi-Monolithic Detector Tailored for High-Resolution PET
In: Medical Physics

 
2024

Qibin Wang, Zhonghao Zhang, Lei Li, Franziska Schrank, Yu Zeng, Pengyue Guo, Harald Radermacher, Volkmar Schulz and Shouping Zhu
Single-sided Magnetic Particle Imaging Device with Offset Field based Spatial Encoding
In: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

 
2024

Yanchen Li, Rui Zhang, Roman Barmin, Elena Rama, Max Schoenen, Franziska Schrank, Volkmar Schulz, Ioana Slabu, Fabian Kiessling, Twan Lammers and Roger M Pallares
Improving MPI and hyperthermia performance of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles through fractional factorial design of experiments
In: Nanoscale Advances 6 (17)

2024

Yannick Kuhl, Florian Mueller, Julian Thull, Stephan Naunheim, David Schug and Volkmar Schulz
3D in-system calibration method for PET detectors
In: Medical Physics

2024

Katrin Herweg, Daniel Rutstrom, Vanessa Nadig, Luis Stand, Charles L Melcher, Mariya Zhuravleva, Volkmar Schulz and Stefan Gundacker
Timing limits of ultrafast cross ‑ luminescence emission in CsZnCl ‑ based crystals for TOF ‑ CT and TOF ‑ PET
In: EJNMMI Physics 11

2024

Vanessa Nadig, Stefan Gundacker, David Schug, Katrin Herweg, Konstantin Weindel, Harald Radermacher, Florian Mueller, Bjoern Weissler and Volkmar Schulz
Scalable, Time-of-Flight and Depth-of-Interaction Detector Units for High-Resolution PET Systems
In: IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 8 (1)

2024

Stephan Naunheim, Florian Mueller, Vanessa Nadig, Yannick Kuhl, Johannes Breuer, Nan Zhang, Sanghee Cho, Maciej Kapusta, Robert Mintzer, Martin Judenhofer and Volkmar Schulz
Holistic Evaluation of a Machine Learning-based Timing Calibration for PET Detectors under Varying Data Sparsity
In: Physics in Medicine & Biology

2023

Yannick Kuhl, Stephan Naunheim, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Angular Irradiation Methods for DOI Calibration of Light-Sharing Detectors—A Perspective for PET In-System Calibration
In: IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences

 
2023

Konstantin Weindel, Vanessa Nadig, Katrin Herweg, Volkmar Schulz and Stefan Gundacker
A time-based double-sided readout concept of 100 mm LYSO:Ce,Ca fibres for future axial TOF-PET
In: EJNMMI Physics 10 (1)

 
2023

Vanessa Nadig, Katrin Herweg, Mitch M C Chou, Jack W C Lin, Edmund Chin, Chu-an Li, Volkmar Schulz and Stefan Gundacker
Timing advances of commercial divalent-ion co- doped LYSO:Ce and SiPMs in sub-100 ps time-of-flight positron emission tomography
In: Physics in Medicine & Biology 68

 
2023

Katrin Herweg, Vanessa Nadig, Volkmar Schulz and Stefan Gundacker
On the Prospects of BaF2 as a Fast Scintillator for Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography Systems
In: IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 7 (3)

 
2023

Vanessa Nadig, Matthias Hornisch, Jakob Oehm, Katrin Herweg, Volkmar Schulz and Stefan Gundacker
16-channel SiPM high-frequency readout with time-over-threshold discrimination for ultrafast time-of-flight applications
In: EJNMMI Physics 10 (1)

2023

Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Improving the Timing Resolution of Positron Emission Tomography Detectors Using Boosted Learning—A Residual Physics Approach
In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

2022

Florian Mueller, Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, David Schug, Torsten Solf and Volkmar Schulz
A Semi-Monolithic Detector Providing Intrinsic DOI-Encoding and Sub-200 ps CRT TOF-Capabilities for Clinical PET Applications
In: Medical Physics

 
2022

Dennis Pantke, Florian Mueller, Sebastian Reinartz, Jonas Philipps, Seyed Mohammadali Dadfar, Maximilian Peters, Jochen Franke, Franziska Schrank, Fabian Kiessling and Volkmar Schulz
Frequency-selective signal enhancement by a passive dual coil resonator for magnetic particle imaging
In: Physics in Medicine & Biology 67 (11)

2022

Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, Torsten Solf, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Analysis of a convex time skew calibration for light sharing-based PET detectors
In: Physics in Medicine & Biology

 
2021

Laiyin Yin, Franziska Schrank, Nicolas Gross-Weege, David Schug and Volkmar Schulz
RF shielding materials for highly-integrated PET/MRI systems
In: Physics in Medicine & Biology 66 (9)

 
2020

B. Theek, T. Nolte, D. Pantke, F. Schrank, F. Gremse and V. Schulz & F. Kiessling
Emerging methods in radiology
In: Radiologe 60 (Suppl 1)

2020

Tianyu Han, Sven Nebelung, Christoph Haarburger, Nicolas Horst, Sebastian Reinartz, Dorit Merhof, Fabian Kiessling, Volkmar Schulz and Daniel Truhn
Breaking medical data sharing boundaries by employing artificial radiographs
In: Science Advances

 
2011

André Salomon, Andreas Goedicke, Bernd Schweizer, Til Aach and Volkmar Schulz
Simultaneous Reconstruction of Activity and Attenuation for PET/MR
In: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 30 (3)

Conference publications

 
2026

Marian Frei, Felix Dahms, Kostiantyn Lavronenko, Marcel Ochsendorf, Emilia Yin-Grossmann, Yannick Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
GPU-accelerated streamfunction design search for low-field MRI surface coils
In: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2026 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting September 30th--October 3rd 2026

 
2026

Felix Dahms, Marian Frei, Marcel Ochsendorf, Kostiantyn Lavronenko, Emilia Yin-Grossmann, Yannick Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
Enhancing open-ended dome-shaped RF coils using brim structures
In: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2026 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting September 30th--October 3rd 2026

 
2026

Kostiantyn Lavronenko, Matthias Knapp, Marcel Ochsendorf, Rüveyda Yilmaz, Marian Frei, Felix Dahms, Emilia Yin-Grossmann, Yannick Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
Diffusion-prior-based reconstruction and B0 field correction of knee MRI under simulated low-field distortions
In: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2026 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting September 30th--October 3rd 2026

 
2026

Marcel Ochsendorf, Lukas Bierbüsse, Kostiantyn Lavronenko, Marian Frei, Felix Dahms, Emilia Yin-Grossmann, Yannick Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
External Hall-sensor-guided Larmor frequency calibration in low-field MRI with Local Spectral Refinement
In: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2026 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting September 30th--October 3rd 2026

 
2026

Marcel Ochsendorf, Aleksander Stepien, Tom Merten, Robin Lintermann, Kostiantyn Lavronenko, Marian Frei, Felix Dahms, Emilia Yin-Grossmann, Yannick Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
IEEE 1588 precision time protocol trigger synchronization for sequence-relative experimental devices using MaRCoS firmware
In: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2026 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting September 30th--October 3rd 2026

 
2026

Felix Dahms, Volkmar Schulz and Franziska Schrank
Unsupervised deep-learning approach for time domain signal denoising in MPI
In: International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging 12 (1)

 
2026

Marcel Ochsendorf, Sophie Charlotte Keunecke, Mathias Hüsing, Burkhard Corves and Volkmar Schulz
Modular Piggyboard-Based Segmented I$$^2$$C Architecture for Deterministic Multi-Sensor Integration in Mechatronic Systems
In: Robotics and Mechatronics

 
2026

Marcel Ochsendorf, Emilia Yin-Großmann, Kostiantyn Lavronenko and Volkmar Schulz
Small-Bore, Big Fruits: End to end generation pipeline for 3D-printed phantoms with hidden micro-manifolds in Low-Field MRI
In: 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition

2026

J. Thull, Y. Kuhl, T. Meyer, M. Henning, B. Weissler, D. Schug and V. Schulz
Detector-Wise Learning for Scalable In-System PET Timing Calibration
In: PSMR 2026 Valencia

2026

Kostiantyn Lavronenko, Rueveyda Yilmaz, Zhu Chen, Johannes Stegmaier and Volkmar Schulz
Atlas-Augmented Semantic Segmentation for Robust Ultra-Low-Field Pediatric Brain Imaging
In: MICCAI Challenge on Low Field Pediatric Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Quality Assurance

2025

Yannick Kuhl, Julian Thull, Eike Gegenmantel, Bjoern Weissler, David Schug and Volkmar Schulz
In-System Calibration of Gamma and Detector Positioning for High-Resolution PET Imaging: Demonstration on the HYPMED Scanner
In: 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (NSS MIC RTSD)

 
2025

Marcel Ochsendorf, Kostiantyn Lavronenko and Volkmar Schulz
Adaptive magnetic field mapping to accelerate the $B_0$ shimming process in low-field MRI using Gaussian process regression: Adaptive sampling
In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (ICMRM)

2025

Kostiantyn Lavronenko, Marcel Ochsendorf and Volkmar Schulz
B_0 Field Optimization of Permanent Magnet Assemblies with Characterized Field Variations in Individual Magnets Using Genetic Algorithms
In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (ICMRM 2025)

2025

Kostiantyn Lavronenko, Marcel Ochsendorf, Julian Thull and Volkmar Schulz
Differentiable dipole-based optimization of permanent magnets for homogeneous B0 fields in low-field MRI
In: Book of Abstracts, 41st Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB 2025)

2025

J. Thull, T. Freye, Y. Kuhl and V. Schulz
Beyond Mechanics: Maximum-Likelihood-driven PET Detector Alignment
In: 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (NSS MIC RTSD)

2025

J. Thull, J. Remennik, Y. Kuhl and V. Schulz
Machine Learning-Based Uncertainty Estimation for PET Gamma Interaction Localization
In: 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (NSS MIC RTSD)

 
2025

H. Radermacher, F. Schrank, D. Pantke, F. Mueller and V. Schulz
Extending tuning coil loading for improved passive compensation in multi-frequency MPI towards nominal field strength operation
In: IJMPI 11 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2025

Franziska Schrank, Harald Radermacher and Volkmar Schulz
Improved image quality with a receive-only coil for the Bruker MPI scanner
In: IJMPI 11 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2025

Manfred Faldum, Franziska Schrank, Volkmar Schulz and Markus Bachmayr
Efficient solvers for coupled Brown-Néel Fokker-Planck equations
In: IJMPI 11 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2025

Qibin Wang, Kaixiong Yang, Linwen Hou, Yihan Wang, Franziska Schrank, Harald Radermacher, Volkmar Schulz and Shouping Zhu
Simulation of Multi-Coil Single-Sided MPI System with Offset Field Spatial Encoding
In: IJMPI 11 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2025

Emil Mededovic, Valdy Laurentius, Yuli Wu, Marcin Kopaczka, Zhu Chen, Mareike Schulz, René Tolba and Johannes Stegmaier
No Free Lunch in Annotation either: An objective evaluation of Foundation models for Streamlining Annotation in Animal Tracking
In: IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

2024

Julian Thull, Florian Mueller and Volkmar Schulz
Refining Position Estimates of PET Detector Blocks with Stochastic Gradient Descent
In: PSMR 2024 Elba

 
2024

Thilo Masbaum, Luis Lopes de Paiva, Florian Mueller, Volkmar Schulz and Stephan Naunheim
First Steps towards a Foundation Model for Positioning in Positron Emission Tomography Detectors
In: 2024 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD)

2024

L.-D. Gaulin, V. Nadig, J. Rossignol, F. Gagnon, K. Herweg, V. Schulz, S. Gundacker and R. Fontaine
Assessing the Performance of the TOFPET2c ASIC at X-ray Energies for Time-of-Flight Scatter Rejection Applications
In: 2024 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD)

 
2024

V. Nadig, G. Terragni, E. Toumparidou, M. Hornisch, A. Selenski, K. Herweg, E. Tribbia, E. Auffray, V. Schulz and S. Gundacker
A Modular TOF-DOI Detector For OrganDedicated and Large Axial Field of View PET
In: 2024 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD)

2024

K. Herweg, V. Nadig, S. Bisi, C. Bruschini, E. Charbon, V. Schulz and S. Gundacker
Investigating μSiPMs to overcome the limits of BGO in ToF-PET
In: 2024 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD)

 
2024

Qibin Wang, Zhonghao Zhang, Lei Li, Franziska Schrank, Harald Radermacher, Volkmar Schulz and Shouping Zhu
Simulation of a single-sided MPI handheld device with offset magnetic field for spatial encoding
In: IJMPI 10 (1 Suppl 1)

2024

Julian Thull, Florian Mueller and Volkmar Schulz
Sinogram-based Alignment Estimation of PET Detector Blocks
In: 2024 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (NSS MIC RTSD)

2024

K. Lavronenko, L. Lopes de Paiva, F. Mueller, V. Schulz and S. Naunheim
Towards artificial data generation for accelerated PET detector ML-based timing calibration using GANs
In: 2024 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD)

 
2023

V. Schulz F. Schrank
Deep transfer learning for faster reconstruction in 2D magnetic particle imaging
In: Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik 68 (s1)

 
2023

Pauline Kreft, Franziska Schrank, Dennis Pantke and Volkmar Schulz
Sample preparations for reproducible measurements in MPS and MPI
In: IJMPI 9 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2023

Sebastian Solibida, Dennis Pantke-Stratmann, Franziska Schrank and Volkmar Schulz
A refined debye model for the dynamic magnetization response of superparamagnetic nanoparticles
In: IJMPI 9 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2023

Harald Radermacher, Franziska Schrank, Dennis Pantke, Florian Mueller, Maximilian Peters and Volkmar Schulz
Highly flexible gradiometer coil arrangement offering improved passive compensation for multi-frequency MPI
In: IJMPI 9 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2023

Matthias Bovelett, Yannick Kuhl, Stephan Naunheim, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Implementation and Evaluation of a 3D-dependend Energy-calibration algorithm
In: IEEE NSS MIC 2023

2023

Julian Thull, Martina Crysandt, Barbara Klinkhammer, Peter Boor, Tim H. Brümmendorf, Volkmar Schulz, Dorit Merhof and Edgar Jost
Inter-Facility Evaluation of Machine Learning Based Deep Hematopoietic Cell Classifiers for Cytological Evaluation of Hematopoiesis
In: Blood 142 (Supplement 1)

 
2023

S. Gundacker, C. Bruschini, A. Gola, K. Herweg, S. Merzi, A. Muntean, V. Nadig, L. Parellada-Monreal, G. Paternoster, M. Penna, M. Ruzzarin, E. Charbon and V. Schulz
DIGILOG: A digital-analog SiPM towards 10 ps prompt-photon tagging in TOF-PET
In: 2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (NSS MIC RTSD)

 
2023

K Herweg, D J Rutstrom, V Nadig, L Stand, C L Melcher, M Zhuravleva, V Schulz and S Gundacker
Timing limits of ultrafast cross- luminescence emission in CsZnCl-based crystals for TOF-PET , HEP and TOF-CT
In: 2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (NSS MIC RTSD)

 
2023

Volkmar Schulz Franziska Schrank
Multi-purpose deep learning framework for MPI based on contrastive learning
In: IJMPI 9 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2022

Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, Bjoern Weissler, David Schug, Harald Radermacher, Florian Mueller, Vanessa Nadig, Laiyin Yin, Karl Krueger, Max Peters, Pierre Gebhardt, Nicolas Groß-Weege, Teresa Nolte, Eike Gegenmantel, Martino Borgo, J van der Berghe, D Gareis, T Celik, Sebastian Aussenhofer, Andre Salomon, Dennis R Schaart, René Bakker, Langen K J, Christiane Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
The HYPMED PET/MRI Insert for Enhanced Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
In: PSMR 2022 Elba

 
2022

Stephan Naunheim, Yannick Kuhl, Bjoern Weissler, David Schug, Harald Radermacher, Florian Mueller, Vanessa Nadig, Laiyin Yin, Karl Krueger, Max Peters, Pierre Gebhardt, Nicolas Groß-Weege, Teresa Nolte, Eike Gegenmantel, Martino Borgo, J van der Berghe, D Gareis, T Celik, Sebastian Aussenhofer, Andre Salomon, Dennis R Schaart, René Bakker, Langen K J, Christiane Kuhl and Volkmar Schulz
Enhanced Diagnosis of Breast Cancer With The HYPMED PET/MRI Insert
In: IEEE NSS MIC 2022

 
2022

Franziska Schrank, Dennis Pantke and Volkmar Schulz
Deep learning MPI super-resolution by implicit representation of the system matrix
In: IJMPI 8 (1 Suppl 1)

 
2021

Stephan Naunheim, Torsten Solf, Yannick Kuhl, David Schug, Volkmar Schulz and Florian Mueller
Exploring Timing Resolution Limits of Cost-Effective DOI-capable Semi-Monolithic Detectors for Total-Body PET
In: Total-Body PET Conference