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Deputy head of Division ”Pathophysiology of Prediabetes”

" My research involves the development of non-invasive methods to accurately characterise tissue composition and function in pre-diabetes and diabetes."

" My research involves the development of non-invasive methods to accurately characterise tissue composition and function in pre-diabetes and diabetes."

Academic Pathway & Research Area

Fritz Schick studied medicine and physics at the University of Tuebingen (Germany) where he graduated in medicine in 1989 and in Physics in 1990. He joined the Institute of Experimental Physics in Tuebingen from 1990 to 1996 in the group headed by Prof. O. Lutz, where he worked in the field of MR sequence development for experimental and clinical MRI and MRS studies.

From 1996 up to now he has been working in the Clinic of Radiology (chairmen: C.D Claussen followed by K. Nikolaou) of Tuebingen University. In 2001 he has got a permanent professorship as head of the Section on Experimental Radiology. Main areas of work comprise quantitative MRI and MRS and applications in musculature, liver, adipose tissue and bone marrow.

Fields of Work and Expertise

Exerimental RadiologyMedical physicsMagnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopyAnalysis of medical imaging datacohort studies

Professional Background

2010

Head of Section on Metabolic Imaging, Paul Langerhans Institute for Research in Prediabetes

2000

Univ.-Professor, Head of Section of Experimental Radiology, Dept. of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen

1996

Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) in Experimental Radiology, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen

Honors and Awards

Technologie-Transfer-Handwerk Professor Adalbert Seifriz-Preis
2003
Stipend of Siemens AG, Ernst-von-Siemens-Stipend
1992 - 1994
Dr.-Friedrich-Förster-Award, Department of Physics
1991

See all

Schick F.

Automatic segmentation and volumetric assessment of internal organs and fatty tissue: what are the benefits? MAGMA 2022, 35:187-192.

Wagner R, Heni M, Tabák AG, Machann J, Schick F, Randrianarisoa E, Hrabě de Angelis M, Birkenfeld AL, Stefan N, Peter A, Häring HU, Fritsche A.

Pathophysiology-based subphenotyping of individuals at elevated risk for type 2 diabetes. Nat. Med. 2021, 27:49-57.

Dietz B, Machann J, Agrawal V, Heni M, Schwab P, Dienes J, Reichert S, Birkenfeld AL, Häring HU, Schick F, Stefan N, Fritsche A, Preissl H, Schölkopf B, Bauer S, Wagner R.

A fully automated reference deconvolution strategy to increase the accuracy of in vivo lipid signal quantification. JCI Insight. 2021, Nov 8;6(21):e146999.

Küstner T, Hepp T, Fischer M, Schwartz M, Fritsche A, Häring HU, Nikolaou K, Bamberg F, Yang B, Schick F, Gatidis S, Machann J.

Fully Automated and Standardized Segmentation of Adipose Tissue Compartments via Deep Learning in 3D Whole-Body MRI of Epidemiologic Cohort Studies. Radiol. Artif. Intell. 2020, Oct 28;2(6):e200010.

Mauch L, Steidle G, Machann J, Yang B, Schick F.

A fully automated reference deconvolution strategy to increase the accuracy of in vivo lipid signal quantification. Magn. Res. Med. 2016, 75:1391-401.

Steidle G, Schick F.

Addressing spontaneous signal voids in repetitive single-shot DWI of musculature: spatial and temporal patterns in the calves of healthy volunteers and consideration of unintended muscle activities as underlying mechanism. NMR Biomed. 2015, 28:801-10.

Will S, Martirosian P, Wurslin C, Schick F.

Automated segmentation and volumetric analysis of renal cortex, medulla, and pelvis based on non-contrast-enhanced T1- and T2-weighted MR images. MAGMA 2014, 27:445-54.

Machann J, Stefan N, Schabel C, Schleicher E, Fritsche A, Wurslin C, Haring HU, Claussen CD, Schick F.

Fraction of unsaturated fatty acids in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is lower in subjects with high total VAT volume - a combined 1 H MRS and volumetric MRI study in male subjects. NMR in Biomed. 2013, 26:232-6.

Prof. Fritz Schick

Academic Pathway & Research Area

Fields of Work and Expertise

Professional Background

Head of Section on Metabolic Imaging, Paul Langerhans Institute for Research in Prediabetes

Univ.-Professor, Head of Section of Experimental Radiology, Dept. of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen

Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) in Experimental Radiology, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen

Honors and Awards

Publications

Networks and Affiliations

German Center for Diabetes Research

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