On October 22nd 2008,  M.Sc. Eng. Tim Dyrby succesfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Modelling Brain Tissue Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

The work was performed at the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance and at DTU Informatics at the Danish Technical University.

The comitee consisted of

• Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline from the Neurospin Imaging Centre in Paris. 
• Dr. Hans Stødkilde-Jørgensen from the MR Research Centre, Skejby Hospital in Århus.
• Dr. Ole Winther, DTU Informatics from the DanishTechnical University in Lyngby (chairman).

The main supervisor was Proressor Lars Kai Hansen .