After working for many years in cardiovascular MRI research both, Drs. James Carr, MD and Michael Markl, PhD realized a missing link between clinical MRI and research cardiovascular MRI. The translation of latest developments to clinical practice was hampered by the high post-processing demands of the cardiovascular MR images. Therefore the idea arose to create the new lab for cardiovascular quantitative image processing offering our expertise as a service to other research labs within and outside the university, but also to clinical or industrial partners.