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{{Short description|Research institute}}
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The '''Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging'''<ref name="The Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging">{{Cite web|title=Welcome to the Erwin L. Hahn Institute|url=https://hahn-institute.de/en|access-date=2021-10-17|website=hahn-institute.de}}</ref> is a research institute which develops [[magnetic resonance imaging]] (MRI) for both cognitive [[neuroscience]] and [[medical diagnosis]] and treatment.
== History ==
It was founded in July 2005 by the [[University Duisburg-Essen]] ([[Germany]]) and the [[Radboud University Nijmegen]] (The [[Netherlands]]).
It is located on the grounds of the [[UNESCO]] World Cultural Heritage Zollverein in the Northeast of the city of [[Essen]], [[Germany]].
The industrial complex Zollverein is a former coal mine and coke processing plant which represents an industry which dominated the industrialization of the [[Ruhr]] area in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The institute is named after [[Erwin L. Hahn]], a physicist who has made innumerable contributions to the field of magnetic resonance.
The centerpiece of the institute is a 7 [[Tesla (unit)|Tesla]] whole-body magnet resonance imager from [[Siemens Healthcare]], [[Erlangen]], Germany. In contrast to the magnetic resonance imagers used in hospitals and clinics throughout the world, which commonly operate at a magnetic field strength of 1.5 [[Tesla (unit)|Tesla]], the ultra high magnetic field strength of this imager provides significantly higher sensitivity for structural and functional measurements of the human body.
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