Niklas Hackelberg, M.Sc.

Portrait of Niklas Hackelberg

Fraunhofer-Einrichtung für Individualisierte und Zellbasierte Medizintechnik IMTE
Mönkhofer Weg 239a
23562 Lübeck
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Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)
Institut für Biomedizinische Bildgebung
Gebäude E, Raum 4.044
Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 3
21073 Hamburg

E-Mail: niklas.hackelberg(at)imte.fraunhofer.de
E-Mail: niklas.hackelberg(at)tuhh.de
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0976-9049

Research Interests

  • Magnetic Particle Imaging
  • Image reconstruction in MPI, MRI and CT
  • Parallel computing in Julia

Curriculum Vitae

Niklas Hackelberg is a PhD student in the group of Tobias Knopp for Biomedical Imaging at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Hamburg University of Technology. In addition, he works as a software engineer at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering IMTE in Lübeck. He studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Hamburg from 2014 to 2021, where he earned his Master's degree with a thesis on "Development of a Scalable and Real-Time Capable Data Acquisition System for Magnetic Particle Imaging."  

Journal Publications

  • 72
    Knopp, T.; Szwargulski, P.; Griese, F.; Grosser, M.; Boberg, M.; Möddel, M.
    MPIReco.jl: Julia Package for Image Reconstruction in MPI
    2019 Article International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging
    Journal International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 5 (1): 9 pp
  • 71
    Exner, M.; Szwargulski, P.; Ludewig, P.; Knopp, T.; Graeser, M.
    3D Printed Anatomical Model of a Rat for Medical Imaging
    2019 Article Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
    Journal Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 5 (1): 187-190
  • 70
    Graeser, M.; Thieben, F.; Szwargulski, P.; Werner, F.; Gdaniec, N.; Boberg, M.; Griese, F.; Möddel, M.; Ludewig, P.; Ven, D.; Weber, O. M.; Woywode, O.; Gleich, B.; Knopp, T.
    Human-sized Magnetic Particle Imaging for Brain Applications
    2019 Article Nature Communications
    Journal Nature Communications, 10 (1936): 1-9
  • 69
    Mogadas, N.; Sothmann, T.; Knopp, T.; Gauer, T.; Petersen, C.; Werner, R.
    Influence of deformable image registration on 4D dose simulation for extracranial SBRT: A multi-registration framework study
    2018 Article Radiotherapy and Oncology
    Journal Radiotherapy and Oncology, 127 (2): 225-232
    Publisher Elsevier
  • 68
    Szwargulski, P.; Gdaniec, N.; Graeser, M.; Möddel, M.; Griese, F.; Krishnan, K. M.; Buzug, T. M.; Knopp, T.
    Moving table magnetic particle imaging: a stepwise approach preserving high spatio-temporal resolution
    2018 Article Journal of Medical Imaging
    Journal Journal of Medical Imaging, 5 (4): 046002
  • 67
    Schetelig, D.; Sedlacik, J.; Fiehler, J.; Frölich, A.; Knopp, T.; Sothmann, T.; Waschkewitz, J.; Werner, R.
    Analysis of the influence of imaging-related uncertainties on cerebral aneurysm deformation quantification using a no-deformation physical flow phantom
    2018 Article Scientific reports
    Journal Scientific reports, 8 (1): 11004
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group UK London
  • 66
    Lyer, S.; Knopp, T.; Werner, F.; Zaloga, J.; Friedrich, R.; Trahms, L.; Wiekhorst, F.; Struffert, T.; Engelhorn, T.; Dörfler, A.; Bäuerle, T.; Uder, M.; Tietze, R.; Janko, C.; Alexiou, C.
    Multifunctional SPIONs for Theranostics in Cancer
    2018 Article International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging
    Journal International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 4 (1)
  • 65
    Knopp, T.
    Novel Field Sequences, Reconstruction Algorithms, and Particle Synthesis Approaches for Magnetic Particle Imaging
    2018 Article International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging
    Journal International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 3 (2): ID: 1803001
  • 64
    Knopp, T.; Viereck, T.; Bringout, G.; Ahlborg, M.; von Gladiss, A.; Kaethner, C.; Neumann, A.; Vogel, P.; Rahmer, J.; Möddel, M.
    MDF: Magnetic Particle Imaging Data Format
    2018 Article ArXiv e-prints
    Journal ArXiv e-prints, 1602.06072v6 : 1-15
  • 63
    Erb, W.; Weinmann, A.; Ahlborg, M.; Brandt, C.; Bringout, G.; Buzug, T. M.; Frikel, J.; Kaethner, C.; Knopp, T.; März, T.; Möddel, M.; Storath, M.; Weber, A.
    Mathematical Analysis of the 1D Model and Reconstruction Schemes for Magnetic Particle Imaging
    2018 Article Inverse Problems
    Journal Inverse Problems, 34 (5): 055012
    Publisher IOP Publishing
  • 62
    Kaul, M. G.; Salamon, J.; Knopp, T.; Ittrich, H.; Adam, G.; Weller, H.; Jung, C.
    Magnetic Particle Imaging for In Vivo Blood Flow Velocity Measurements in Mice
    2018 Article Physics in Medicine and Biology
    Journal Physics in Medicine and Biology, 63 (6): 064001
    Publisher IOP Publishing
  • 61
    Möddel, M.; Meins, C.; Dieckhoff, J.; Knopp, T.
    Viscosity quantification using multi-contrast magnetic particle imaging
    2018 Article New Journal of Physics
    Journal New Journal of Physics, 20 (8): 083001
  • 60
    Gdaniec, N.; Schlüter, M.; Hofmann, M.; Kaul, M. G.; Krishnan, K. M.; Schlaefer, A.; Knopp, T.
    Detection and Compensation of Periodic Motion in Magnetic Particle Imaging
    2017 Article IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
    Journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
    Publisher IEEE
  • 59
    Gdaniec, N.; Szwargulski, P.; Knopp, T.
    Fast Multi-Resolution Data Acquisition for Magnetic Particle Imaging using Adaptive Feature Detection
    2017 Article Medical Physics
    Journal Medical Physics, 44 (12): 6456-6460
  • 58
    Ludewig, P.; Gdaniec, N.; Sedlacik, J.; Forkert, N. D.; Szwargulski, P.; Graeser, M.; Adam, G.; Kaul, M. G.; Krishnan, K. M.; Ferguson, R. M.; Khandhar, A. P.; Walczak, P.; Fiehler, J.; Thomalia, G.; Gerloff, C.; Knopp, T.
    Magnetic Particle Imaging for Real-Time Perfusion Imaging in Acute Stroke
    2017 Article ACS Nano
    Journal ACS Nano
  • 57
    von Gladiss, A.; Graeser, M.; Szwargulski, P.; Knopp, T.; Buzug, T. M.
    Hybrid system calibration for multidimensional magnetic particle imaging
    2017 Article Physics in Medicine and Biology
    Journal Physics in Medicine and Biology, 62 (9): 3392
  • 56
    Szwargulski, P.; Knopp, T.
    Influence of the Receive Channel Number on the Spatial Resolution in Magnetic Particle Imaging
    2017 Article International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging
    Journal International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 3 (1)
  • 55
    Griese, F.; Knopp, T.; Werner, R.; Schlaefer, A.; Möddel, M.
    Submillimeter-Accurate Marker Localization within Low Gradient Magnetic Particle Imaging Tomograms
    2017 Article International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging
    Journal International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 3 (1)
  • 54
    Werner, F.; Gdaniec, N.; Knopp, T.
    Improving the Spatial Resolution of Bidirectional Cartesian MPI Data using Fourier Techniques
    2017 Article International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging
    Journal International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging, 3 (1): 1-6
  • 53
    Werner, F.; Gdaniec, N.; Knopp, T.
    First experimental comparison between the cartesian and the lissajous trajectory for magnetic particle imaging
    2017 Article Physics in Medicine and Biology
    Journal Physics in Medicine and Biology, 62 : 3407-3421

Conference Proceedings

  • 187
    Scheffler, K.; Boberg, M.; Knopp, T.
    Boundary artifact reduction by extrapolating system matrices outside the field-of-view in joint multi-patch MPI
    2022 Contribution to Proceeding In "11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)"
    Booktitle , 11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)Volume8, Page 1-3
  • 186
    Moor, L.; Scheibler, S.; Gerken, L.; Scheffler, K.; Thieben, F.; Knopp, T.; Herrmann, I. K.; Starsich, F. H. L.
    MPI tracer interactions and their effect on signal stability
    2022 Contribution to Proceeding In "11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)"
    Booktitle , 11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)Volume8, Page 1-3
  • 185
    Nawwas, L.; Grosser, M.; Möddel, M.; Knopp, T.
    Accelerated Kaczmarz for Convergence Speed-up in Multi-Contrast Magnetic Particle Imaging
    2022 Contribution to Proceeding In "11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)"
    Booktitle , 11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)Volume8, Page 1-4
  • 184
    Zdun, L.; Boberg, M.; Brandt, C.
    Fast and artifact reducing joint multi-patch MPI reconstruction
    2022 Contribution to Proceeding In "11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)"
    Booktitle , 11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)Volume8, Page 1-4
  • 183
    Boberg, M.; Knopp, T.
    Two-Step Reconstruction of Widely Differing Particle Concentrations in Magnetic Particle Imaging
    2022 Contribution to Proceeding In "4th Workshop Women in Optimization"
    Booktitle 4th Workshop Women in Optimization
  • 182
    Boberg, M.; Knopp, T.
    Two-Step Reconstruction with Spatially Adaptive Regularization for Increasing the Dynamic Range in MPI
    2022 Contribution to Proceeding In "11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)"
    Booktitle , 11th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2022)Volume8, Page 1-4
  • 181
    Boberg, M.; Gdaniec, N.; Möddel, M.; Szwargulski, P.; Knopp, T.
    Suppression of Motion Artifacts in Multi-Patch Magnetic Particle Imaging of a Phantom with Periodic Motion
    2022 Contribution to Proceeding In "SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS22)"
    Booktitle SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS22)
  • 180
    Knopp, T.; Grosser, M.; Graeser, M.; Gerkmann, T.; Möddel, M.
    Dictionary-Based Background Signal Estimation For Magnetic Particle Imaging
    2021 Contribution to Proceeding In "IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2021)"
    Booktitle IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2021), Page 1540-1543
  • 179
    Baltruschat, I. M.; Szwargulski, P.; Griese, F.; Grosser, M.; Werner, R.; Knopp, T.
    Reduktion der Kalibrierungszeit für die Magnetpartikelbildgebung mittels Deep Learning
    2021 Contribution to Proceeding In "Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2021"
    Booktitle Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2021, Page 337-337
  • 178
    Grosser, M.; Knopp, T.
    Fast Image Reconstruction for Non-Cartesian Acquisitions in the Presence of B0-inhomogeneities
    2021 Contribution to Proceeding In "Proceedings ISMRM 2021"
    Booktitle Proceedings ISMRM 2021
  • 177
    Grosser, M.; Knopp, T.
    Efficient Optimization Of MRI Sampling Patterns Using The Bayesian Fisher Information Matrix
    2021 Contribution to Proceeding In "IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2021)"
    Booktitle IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2021), Page 234-237
  • 176
    Ozaslan, A. A.; Cagil, A. R.; Graeser, M.; Knopp, T.; Saritas, E. U.
    Design of a Magnetostimulation Head Coil with Rutherford Cable Winding
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)"
    Booktitle , 10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)Volume6
  • 175
    Antonelli, A.; Szwargulski, P.; Scarpa, E. S.; Gruettner, C.; Guidi, L.; Ambrosi, G.; Knopp, T.; Magnani, M.
    Encapsulation of new MPI tracer nanoparticles in the human red blood cells
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)"
    Booktitle , 10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)Volume6, Page 1-3
  • 174
    Szwargulski, P.; Knopp, T.
    Determination of 3D system matrices using a mirroring approach based on mixing theory
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)"
    Booktitle , 10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)Volume6, Page 1-3
  • 173
    Foerger, F.; Graeser, M.; Knopp, T.
    Iron core coil designs for MPI
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)"
    Booktitle , 10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)Volume6, Page 1-3
  • 172
    Griese, F.; Ludewig, P.; Gruettner, C.; Thieben, F.; Müller, K.; Knopp, T.
    Quasi-simultaneous magnetic particle imaging and navigation of nanomag/synomag-D particles in bifurcation flow experiments
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)"
    Booktitle , 10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)Volume6
  • 171
    Kluth, T.; Szwargulski, P.; Knopp, T.
    Towards accurate modeling of the multidimensional MPI physics
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)"
    Booktitle , 10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)Volume6, Page 1-3
  • 170
    Thieben, F.; Boberg, M.; Szwargulski, P.; Graeser, M.; Knopp, T.
    Gradient power reducing using pulsed selection-field sequences
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)"
    Booktitle , 10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)Volume6, Page 1-3
  • 169
    Baltruschat, I. M.; Szwargulski, P.; Griese, F.; Grosser, M.; Werner, R.; Knopp, T.
    3d-SMRnet: Achieving a new quality of MPI system matrix recovery by deep learning
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2020"
    Booktitle Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2020, Page 74—82
    Springer
  • 168
    Wernecke, J.; Graeser, M.; Möddel, M.; Mummert, T.; Kaul, M. G.; Ittrich, H.; Salamon, J.
    Volumetry in magnetic particle imaging
    2020 Contribution to Proceeding In "10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)"
    Booktitle , 10th International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IWMPI 2020)Volume6