The German Radiological Society (DRG) has begun renovating the birthplace home of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in Lennep, North Rhine-Westphalia, the society announced.
Röntgen was born on March 27, 1845. In 1895, he produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as x-rays or Röntgen rays. In 1901, he earned the first Nobel Prize in physics for this work.
The DRG purchased Röntgen's birthplace home in May 2011 and finished a building assessment of it last year. It has begun renovating the home in consultation with the German Röntgen Museum.
The house's three floors will provide an ideal setting for workshops and seminars by scientific working groups of radiology, radiotherapy, and physics, as well as meetings of national and international societies and committees, the DRG said.
For more information or to become a sponsor to help support the project, visit the www.roentgen-geburtshaus.de.
![Overview of the study design. (A) The fully automated deep learning framework was developed to estimate body composition (BC) (defined as subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT] in liters; visceral adipose tissue [VAT] in liters; skeletal muscle [SM] in liters; SM fat fraction [SMFF] as a percentage; and intramuscular adipose tissue [IMAT] in deciliters) from MRI. The fully automated framework comprised one model (model 1) to quantify different BC measures (SAT, VAT, SM, SMFF, and IMAT) as three-dimensional (3D) measures from whole-body MRI scans. The second model (model 2) was trained to identify standardized anatomic landmarks along the craniocaudal body axis (z coordinate field), which allowed for subdividing the whole-body measures into different subregions typically examined on clinical routine MRI scans (chest, abdomen, and pelvis). (B) BC was quantified from whole-body MRI in over 66,000 individuals from two large population-based cohort studies, the UK Biobank (UKB) (36,317 individuals) and the German National Cohort (NAKO) (30,291 individuals). Bar graphs show age distribution by sex and cohort. BMI = body mass index. (C) After the performance assessment of the fully automated framework, the change in BC measures, distributions, and profiles across age decades were investigated. Age-, sex-, and height-adjusted body composition reference curves were calculated and made publicly available in a web-based z-score calculator (https://circ-ml.github.io).](https://img.auntminnieeurope.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/05/body-comp.XgAjTfPj1W.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
