Dieter Matthaei is a German radiotherapist and internist.

Matthaei studied physics and medicine at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. In 1977, he received his doctorate from the Georg-August University of Göttingen

Georg-August University of Göttingen

The University of Göttingen , known informally as Georgia Augusta, is a university in the city of Göttingen, Germany.Founded in 1734 by King George II of Great Britain and the Elector of Hanover, it opened for classes in 1737. The University of Göttingen soon grew in size and popularity...

. He was from 1983 to 1987 a research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen and is now medical specialist for internal medicine in Göttingen.

Matthaei worked at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear magnetic resonance in biological systems. He was looking for a scientific development of NMR

NMR

NMR may refer to:Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance:* Nuclear magnetic resonance* NMR spectroscopy* Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance* Protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy* Proton NMR* Carbon-13 NMR...

 techniques based on magnetic resonance imagery. With Axel Haase and Jens Frahm

Jens Frahm

Jens Frahm is Director of the at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.-Life:...

 he succeeded in 1985 with the invention of rapid image proceedings FLASH MRI

FLASH MRI

FLASH MRI is a basic measuring principle for rapid MRI invented in 1985 by Jens Frahm, Axel Haase, W Hänicke, KD Merboldt, and D Matthaei at the in Göttingen, Germany...

 (fast low angle shot) a revolutionary breakthrough that allows the use of MRI imaging for clinical diagnosis. It enabled the first real coherent representation of body functions.

He is the founder and editor of MAGMA.

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• Matthaei D, Frahm J
  Jens Frahm
  Jens Frahm is Director of the at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.-Life:...
  
  , Haase A, Hänicke W. Regional physiological functions depicted by sequences of rapid magnetic resonance images. Lancet 1985 Oct 19; 2(8460): 893.
• Matthaei D, Frahm J
  Jens Frahm
  Jens Frahm is Director of the at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.-Life:...
  
  , Haase A, Schuster R, Bomsdorf H. Chemical-shift-selective magnetic-resonance imaging of avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Lancet. 1985 Feb 16:1(8425):370-1.
• Haase A, Frahm J,Matthaei D, Hanicke W, Merboldt KD. FLASH Imaging. Rapid NMR Imaging Using Low Flip-Angle Pulses. J Magn Reson 1986; 67:258-266. (first scientific publication of FLASH)
• Frahm J
  Jens Frahm
  Jens Frahm is Director of the at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.-Life:...
  
  , Haase A, Hänicke W, Merboldt KD, Matthaei D. Hochfrequenz-Impuls und Gradienten-Impuls-Verfahren zur Aufnahme von schnellen NMR-Tomogrammen unter Benutzung von Gradientenechos. Deutsche Patentanmeldung P 35 04 734.8 vom 12. Februar 1985
• Frahm J
  Jens Frahm
  Jens Frahm is Director of the at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.-Life:...
  
  , Haase A, Matthaei D, Hanicke W, Merboldt KD. FLASH Imaging. Rapid NMR Imaging Using Low Flip-Angle Pulses. J Magn Reson 1986; 67:258-266.
• Frahm J
  Jens Frahm
  Jens Frahm is Director of the at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.-Life:...
  
  , Haase A, Matthaei D. Rapid three-dimensional MR imaging using the FLASH technique. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1986; 10:363-368
• Frahm J
  Jens Frahm
  Jens Frahm is Director of the at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.-Life:...
  
  , Haase A, Matthaei D. Rapid NMR imaging of dynamic processes using the FLASH technique. Magn Reson Med 1986; 3:321-327