E0405 Medical Engineering
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Group leader: Gernot Echner
The medical engineering workgroup is mainly a service group for the department of medical physics. In cooperation with our workshop and external companies ideas become 3d-CAD-constructions, drawings and in the end prototypes of medical devices, especially in the sectors stereotactical equipment, collimators and patient immobilization aids. Furthermore medical devices - developed at the DKFZ - have to be tested and quality assured. Therefore we design and build testing sets and phantoms which allow routinely controlling.
As high quality standards for radiation therapy at DKFZ demand controlling of the machines beyond standard requirements special phantoms have to be built, designed and developed in the workgroup.
Many developments such as manually and motor driven multi-leaf-collimators have been licensed and are in use in different clinics. A special design of a double-stage iris collimator which has been patented was licensed and will be used in radiation therapy in combination with a special linac from 2008 on.
