Good morning, my name is Bogdan Zhukov and I'm currently doing my Master's Thesis at the DKFZ.
So I'm working on the topic of robot assistant and ultrasound guided radiotherapy we use our robot to
hold our ultrasound probe and use it to place it on the patient's body and the robot
can compensate breathing motions so it would look like this.
Afterwards we use the ultrasound to track various structures in the body
like the tumor that is necessary for the radiotherapy and we use our optical markers
to know where in space this tumor is and that's the point where my work starts.
I'm doing a lot of transformations from the markers to the world system
and for my current work I'm designing new phantoms that i can use later on
for the calibration methods for our robot and that can be used ahead of each treatment.
It's definitely a large variety of different things to try out so
each day there's something new to check with the robot of ultrasound and there's just
always something new to explore and it's always challenging and interesting
As you can see, we have a lot of different hardware we have our robot, we have our ultrasound,
we have our optical camera, and it's always hard to get everything working at the same
time and if something is not working to figure out what is exactly not working and in order to
do our experiments the way we need them to it's always a lot of setup to do first.