HIRO: News
2024
Mar. 24: Successful End of ARTEMIS Sub-Projects at DKFZ
At the end of 2023, the sub-projects (SP) at DKFZ within the ARTEMIS Project (Adaptive RadioThErapy with MR guided Ion beamS) have been finalized. The focus was on the following topics:
- Development of a rotatable patient capsule for positioning the patient in the MR scanner and in front of the horizontal beam-line, as well as its test with volunteers;
- Algorithms for data analysis, image registration and generation of stopping power maps from the MRI data, to be used for plan adaption;
- Development of MR-compatible, anthropomorphic phantoms and automated optimization of MR-sequences for the study protocols;
- Development of a quality assurance protocol, as well as investigations on the long-term stability of the MR scanner.
More information about the sub-projects is available here.
The ARTEMIS Project is a collaboration between the Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy (Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Debus) at Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and the Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology (Head: Prof. Dr. Oliver Jäkel) at DKFZ. The funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FMER, grant number: 13GW0436B) ran at the DKFZ from August 2019 to August 2023. The funding at the UKHD (grant number 13GW0436A) ends in 2024.
Mar. 24: Patient Trials with CERN Detector
A new imaging device, based on the CERN technology Timepix, is now being used on cancer patients. Scientists from the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center (HIT) at University Hospital Heidelberg (UKHD) are now conducting the first patient trials to help target cancer cells more accurately in ion radiotherapy of head and neck tumours.
The project is lead by Dr. Mária Martišíková, Research Group Leader of the Group Novel Detection Techniques for Ion Beams of the Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology at DKFZ. Read on here.
Dr. Martišíková was also interviewed live on Czech TV as part of the International Women's Day on March 8th 2024. The interview in Czech is available online here.
Mar. 24: Registration is open.
The registration for the Hybrid Courses in the Field of Particle Therapy is open until September 2025th 2024. The courses are aimed to physicians and Medical Physics Experts who want to gain the "Fachkunde Partikeltherapie". Furthermore, national and international students and young scientists are welcome to register as well.
We are very happy to offer free course participations to a limited number of participants. More information about the courses, the registration and the free course participation is available here.
Feb. 24: Online Lecture by Prof. Jäkel on April 8th 2024
As part of the Health Week of the further education platform www.suedwissen.de, Prof. Jäkel (Head of the Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology) will give an online lecture on April 8, 2024 from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. on the topic "Modern developments in radiotherapy" (lecture language is German). The lecture is aimed at anyone interested in the topic. Of course, experts from the fields of medicine, medical technology, medical physics and health are also cordially invited. As a provider of various further and advanced training courses in the field of medical physics and radiotherapy, HIRO is happy to be part of the Health Week to provide information on current topics in the field.
Further information on the lecture and registration can be found here. You can find an overview of current courses in Medical Physics and Radiotherapy at www.dkfz.de/medphys_edu.
Feb. 24: FLASH Workshop: Registration is open!
The registration for the FLASH Workshop 2024 about "The Role of Oxygen in FLASH Radiation Therapy" taking place on June 17th until June 19th 2024 Heidelberg at the German Cancer Research Center is open.
This event is aimed at medical physicists, biologists, clinicians, bioengineers and students in the respective fields. You are welcome to submit your abstract for presentation during this workshop.
Abstract deadline: April 8th 2024
Registration deadline: June 1st 2024.
Further information: www.dkfz.de/flash_workshop2024
Feb. 24: Save the Date: 6th Summer School in Medical Physics
We are very happy to announce our 6th Summer School in Medical Physics about Radiation Detector Concepts for Medical Physics. The school is subdivided into an online phase from Aug. 26th until Sep. 22nd 2024, followed by the hybrid attendance phase in Heidelberg and on Zoom from Sep. 23rd until Sep. 27th 2024. We also accept abstracts for our science slam and the poster session.
More information follows soon on the course website here.
Feb. 24: Young Scientist and Audience Award for Christina Stengl
Christina Stengl, a doctoral student in the Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, won the National Decade Against Cancer's Young Scientist Award for her doctoral thesis. She also received the Audience Award, which was presented at the ceremony on 2 February 2024 in Berlin.
Congratulations!
Further information is available here (in German only)
Jan. 24: Save the Date
The German Cancer Research Center and the Division of Medical Physics in Radiotherapy have been cooperating successfully with the Clínica Alemana de Santiago de Chile (CAS) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC) for many years. The first joint summer schools date back to 2004 and were the beginning of a very successful cooperation, which since 2009 has been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) since 2009 as a sub-project "Medical Physics" of the "Center of Excellence in Research and Teaching at the Heidelberg Center Latin America (HCLA)" of Heidelberg University in Santiago de Chile.
This very successful collaboration will be celebrated with two hybrid events on the topic of "Radioresistance" in April 2024. Further information can be found on the following websites: