Clinical Research Cooperation "Medical Physics"

Introduction

A flowchart illustrating collaboration between DKFZ and a University Clinic. It shows four key departments: DKFZ's Department of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology and Clinical Cooperation Unit in Radiation Oncology, alongside the University Clinic's Clinical Research Group in Medical Physics and Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy. Figure 1: Interrelation between DKFZ and University Clinic in the fields of Medical Physics and Radiation Oncology
Figure 1: Interrelation between DKFZ and University Clinic in the fields of Medical Physics and Radiation Oncology

Over many years, we have established a very close and successful cooperation between our division at the DKFZ and the Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy (Head: Prof. Debus) of the University Clinic in Heidelberg. One way of realizing this translational cooperation is the Clinical Cooperation Unit Radiation Oncology (Head: Prof. Debus) at the DKFZ, where physicians from the radiotherapy department of the university clinic do clinical work at the linac at DKFZ. This clinical work is supported by a group of medical physics experts in our division. Many of the modern technologies in radiotherapy, such as stereotactic radiosurgery, fractionated 3D-conformal radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and heavy charged particle radiotherapy, have been developed in our division and translated into clinical application together with the Clinical Cooperation Unit Radiation Oncology at the DKFZ. After establishing the new treatment techniques and proving their safety and feasibility, they have then been transferred to the radiotherapy department of the clinic as a routinely applied treatment technique.

A flowchart illustrates the collaboration between DKFZ and University Clinic in Medical Physics. DKFZ emphasizes working groups in Radiation Oncology, while the University Clinic focuses on clinical routines in Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy, highlighting their joint research activities in Medical Physics. Figure 2: Structure of the Clinical Research Cooperation "Medical Physics"
Figure 2: Structure of the Clinical Research Cooperation "Medical Physics"

To further improve the cooperation between the DKFZ and the University Clinic in the field of Radiation Oncology, the Research Group Applied Medical Radiation Physics (Head: Prof. Karger) was established in our division. Within this research group the translational research activities in our division are bundled and supported. 

The Clinical Research Cooperation “Medical Physics” includes the research activities of the Medical Physicists of the University Clinic and those of selected working groups and some additional members of our division at the DKFZ (fig. 2).

Aim

The aim of the Clinical Research Cooperation “Medical Physics” is to…

  • perform translational research together with clinicians at DKFZ and the hospital.
  • support clinical research activities, which involve novel physics concepts.
  • to develop new scientific questions from clinical application.
  • to perform joint clinic-related research projects.

Further Information

Research Group Applied Medical Radiation Physics DKFZ, Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Therapy
Clinical Medical Physics at the Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy Heidelberg University Hopsital
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