Michael Friebe has been involved in diagnostic imaging and image guided therapeutic products and services as well as other related Medical Technology ventures, as founder / innovator / CEO and investor. He previously was the Founder and CEO of Tomovation + Alliance Medical Northern and Central Europe (Alliance bought Tomovation in 2008 - both radiology services companies) and prior to that of NEUROMED AG (acquired by UMS AG in 2001). Dr. Friebe currently is a Board Member of two startup R&D companies - intraoperative SPECT System / Volumetric Ultrasound - a shareholder of several startups, as well as investment partner of a medical technology startup-fund. He was a board member of three publicly traded medical technology companies in the US and currently sits on the board of Eckert&Ziegler BEBIG AG from Senefe, Belgium. He is a regular speaker, listed inventor in more than 50 patent applications, and has written well over 60 articles. Michael Friebe is a member of IEEE, ISMRM, RSNA, and ECR and an affiliated professor with the chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) at TUM. In December 2014 Michael Friebe has accepted a full professorship of Catheder Technologies at the Otto von Guericke Universität Madgeburg, Germany
Selected Awards
2011, Germany's Business Angel of the year
>50 patent applications and >10 issued patent families
Research Interests
• Translational research (from bench to bedside developments) in medical imaging / hybrid imaging / image guided minimal invasive procedures / imaging and radiation therapy combined • Identifying and developing innovations and • Stimulating entrepreneurial activities in that field
Selected Publications
Friebe, M.; N. Navab, N.: Medical Imaging Entrepreneurship - a dedicated lecture to stimulate and excite science students. 23rd Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT 2011), 2011.
Friebe, M.; Wendler, T.; Traub, J.; Tombach, B.; Navab, N.: 3D handheld SPECT combined with serially acquired MRI reference images - feasibility study for intraoperative applications. 9th Interventional MRI Symposium, 2011.
Krombach, Gabriele A.; Wehner, Martin; Perez-Bouza, Alberto; Kaimann, Linda; Kinzel, Sylvia; Plum, Thorsten; Schibur, Daniel; Friebe, Michael; Günther, Rolf W.; Hohl, Christian: Magnetic Resonance-Guided Angioplasty With Delivery of Contrast-Media Doped Solutions to the Vessel Wall: An Experimental Study in Swine. Investigative Radiology 43 (7), 2008, 530-537.
Krombach, G.; Buecker, A.; Pfeffer, J.; Hohl, C.; Temur, J.; Friebe, M.; Kinzel, S.; Guenther, R.: Development of a catheter for MRI-guided intramyocardial injection. presented at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2007.
Grönemeyermd, D. H.W.; Seibelmd, R M.M.; Melzermd, A.; Schmidt, A.; Deli, M.; Friebe, M.; Busch, M.: Future of advanced guidance techniques by interventional CT and MRI. Minimally Invasive Therapy 4 (5-6), 1995, 251-259.
Friebe, M.; Busch, M.; Hellwig, S.; Deli, M.; Grönemeyer, D.; Seibel, R.: System design, physical parameters, user environment – requirements for interventional MRI. European Radiology, 1995.
A. Boese, T. Hoffmann, M. Skalej, and M. Friebe: Changing the stiffness of vascular catheters intra interventional. Interventional Neuroradiology 21, 2015, 182-183 mehr…BibTeX
A. van Oepen, A. Boese, and M. Friebe: Novel device for minimally-invasive tumor removal. 27nd International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, 2015, 61 mehr…BibTeX
A. van Oepen, A. Boese, and M. Friebe: Minimally invasive tumor extraction combined with subsequent intraoperative radiation. Image-Guided Interventions Conference, 2015 mehr…BibTeX
Friebe, Michael; Traub, Jörg: Image guided surgery innovation with graduate students - a new lecture format. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering 1 (1), 2015 mehr…BibTeX
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M. Friebe and A. Boese: Image guided double-balloon brachytherapy concept. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 10, 2015, 183-184 mehr…BibTeX
M. Friebe and J. Traub: Pathway to MedTec entrepreneurship - image guided surgery translation. European Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Alliance, 2015 mehr…BibTeX
M. Horn, S. Paepke, E. Klein, T. Wendler, and M. Friebe: Hybrid interventional imaging for non-surgical sentinel lymph node staging. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 10 (1), 2015, 36 mehr…BibTeX
2014
E. Nasonova, M. Durst, C. Gringen, E. Farreif, and M. Friebe: Reconstruction of carbon-13 metabolic MR images using constrained optimization. SMRM/ESMRMB, 2014 mehr…BibTeX
E. Nasonova, M. Durst, C. Gringeri, E. V. Farrell, M. Friebe, A. Haase, M. Schwaiger, and R. F. Schulte: Compensating for metabolite dynamics in 13C chemical shift separation. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 202 (1), 2014, 3792 mehr…BibTeX
Friebe, Michael; Katouzian, Amin; Krombach, Gabriele; Heinz-Werner Henke: MRI biopsy with semi–automated biopsy needle in Slicer 3D environment. Unpublished, 2014 mehr…BibTeX
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M. Friebe, A. Katouzian, S. O. Cho, and P. Matthies: Miniaturized cold emission low energy X-ray tubes for MRI guided intraoperative radiation therapy - A technical feasibility study. IGIC 2014, 2014 mehr…BibTeX
M. Friebe, P. Matthies, and S. O. Cho: low energy radiation therapy - feasibility of using a field emission miniature X-ray tube for intraoperative treatments under MRI guidance. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 9, 2014, 65-70 mehr…BibTeX
2013
Bock, S.; Dahl, S.; Schneider, M.; Hartmann, A.; Kramer, M.; Henke, H.-W.; Friebe, M.; Krombach, G.: Entwicklung eines MR-kompatiblen Kathetersystems zur bildgesteuerten intramyok-ardialen Injektion. 94. Deutscher Röntgen-kongress, 2013 mehr…BibTeX
Matthies, P.; Cho, S.O.; Friebe, M.: Integration of a low energy radiation source in MRI environment for intraoperative applications - a feasibility evaluation. 25th Int. Conf. of the Int. Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, 2013 mehr…BibTeX
Matthies, P.; Okur, A.; Wendler, T.; Navab, N.; Friebe, M.: Combination of intraoperative freehand SPECT imaging with MR images for guidance and navigation. 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2013 mehr…BibTeX
Matthies, Philipp; Okur, Asli; Wendler, Thomas; Navab, Nassir; Friebe, Michael: Combination of intra-operative freehand SPECT imaging with MR images for guidance and navigation. 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), IEEE, 2013 mehr…BibTeX
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