Current work
Martinos Center
MRI hardware research with Jason Stockmann at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.
Jason Stockmann’s group ↗About the creator
Philipp Amrein
MRI hardware engineer · Creator of CoilGen
I work on RF and gradient coils, electromagnetic modeling, and the numerical optimization of winding patterns.
I created and maintain CoilGen to connect physical field targets and support geometry with coil-layout generation and evaluation.
Curriculum vitae
From physics
to MR hardware.
A career shaped by RF coils, gradients and computational tools for magnetic field design.
Industry
Neoscan · DYNAMIC 14 T project
Main coil designer for Neoscan’s DYNAMIC 14 T MRI project in the Netherlands, responsible for designing the coil layouts.
Neoscan Solutions ↗Doctoral research
University of Freiburg
Gradient coil design with Maxim Zaitsev and Sebastian Littin. CoilGen was developed during this research to automate the path from a target magnetic field to a coil winding layout.
Read doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg ↗Master’s research
MRI RF coils
Master’s thesis on RF coils with Jan-Bernd Hövener in Freiburg, following physics studies at the University of Freiburg.
Education
Physics · University of Freiburg
Physics studies at the University of Freiburg, providing the foundation for work in electromagnetic modeling, optimization and MR hardware.
University of Freiburg ↗Selected software work
From numerical methods
to an engineering workflow.
Two stages of the CoilGen project, with a shared focus on physical models, winding geometry and reproducible evaluation.
CoilGen
Connecting surface currents to winding layouts
Support meshes and stream-function solutions form the starting point. Contour topology and interconnections turn those solutions into winding paths whose fields and electrical properties can be evaluated.
Original method & publication ↗CoilGen2
A Python API and scientific workbench
The current Python development brings editable projects, constrained optimization, intrinsic topology and conductor geometry into a class-based API and Qt/VTK workbench. Field, electrical and geometry diagnostics support review at each design stage.
Explore the software →Technical focus
Physics, computation
and engineering.
- MR gradient and RF coil design
- Electromagnetic modeling and target-field methods
- Constrained optimization and stream functions
- Wire-pattern topology, routing and geometric diagnostics
- MATLAB / Python scientific software
- Reproducible numerical evaluation