Novel Detection Techniques for Ion Beams - Completed Scientific Theses

2025

Margareta Metzner @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

  Title: Detection, quantification and 3D localization of anatomical changes with a helium-beam radiography system based on thin pixelated detectors

Pamela Ochoa-Parra @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

  Title: Signal analysis in ion treatment monitoring with charged nuclear fragments – A simulation study

2021

Renato Félix Bautista @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Monitoring of lateral positions of therapeutic carbon-ion pencil beams using secondary ion tracking
 

Laura Ghesquière-Diérickx @ Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty

   Title: Carbon-ion radiotherapy monitoring in depth using secondary-ion tracking

 

2018

Tim Gehrke @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Helium-beam radiography with a fully pixelated silicon detection system

 

2016

Giulia Aricò @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Ion Spectroscopy for improvement of the Physical Beam Model for Therapy Planning in Ion Beam Therapy

 

2013

Bernadette Hartmann @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
 

   Title: Ion spectroscopy for ion beam therapy using a pixelized semiconductor detector

 

2012

Julia Telsemeyer @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Investigation of an amorphous silicon detector for ion radiography

2025

Dierk Schulz @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy  

   Title: Development and construction of a new ion-beam radiography system based on silicon pixel detectors

2024

Ferisya Kusuma Sari @ Heidelberg University,  Medical Faculty Mannheim

   Title: Towards high-resolution measurements of radiation quality for improved accuracy in ion-beam therapy

Annika Schlechter @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: 2.5D imaging: accessing 3D information of a 2D ion-beam radiograph

2023

Daria Zhevachevska @ Mannheim University, Medical Faculty

   Title: A low-intensity pencil beam scanning approach for helium-beam radiography: image quality assessment and implementation of an imaging system without a front tracker

Luisa Schweins @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Implementation and Evaluation of Monte Carlo Simulations for Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy Monitoring

Rebekka Kirchgässner @ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Physics

    Title: Detection of anatomical changes in an anthropomorphic phantom during carbon-ion radiotherapy by tracking of charged nuclear fragments

Yanting Xu  @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

    Title: Feasibility study for patient positioning based on helium-beam radiographs

Stefan Schmidt @ Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Faculty of Science

   Title: Characterisation of seven novel Timepix3-based mini-trackers for treatment monitoring in carbon-ion radiotherapy

 

2022

Meera Subramanian  @ Magdeburg University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

   Title: Characterization and optimization of a mini-tracker module for treatment monitoring with secondary ions
 

Margareta Metzner  @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Helium-beam radiography using thin silicon pixel detectors: Establishment of calibration curves and quantitative imaging of an anthropomorphic head phantom

 

2020

Nelly Abbani  @ Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty of Manheim 

   Title: Simulation analysis for the monitoring of carbon-ion beam radiotherapy inside patient models

Sonja Surla @ University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences

   Title: Quantitative helium-beam radiography of an anthropomorphic pelvis phantom

 

2018

Marcos Vásquez Reyes  @ Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty
   Title: A method for ion phase space validation for below therapeutic ion fluences (by single ion tracking)

Karen Romero Sanchéz @ Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty

   Title: Measurement of energy deposition of therapeutic ion beams using a 100 μm thick pixelated semiconductor detector Timepix

Carlo Amato @ Universita di Pisa, Faculty of Physics

   Title: Helium-Beam Radiography and Spatial Resolution Improvement.

Marvin Reimold @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Monitoring of carbon ion pencil beams in a homogeneous PMMA phantom using Timepix3 detectors

 

2017

Renato Felix Bautista @ Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty

 Title: Monitoring of a clinical-like 12C treatmeny by means of secondary ion: first study

 

2016

Raya Gallas @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

    Title: Experimental determination of helium ion fragmentation at therapeutic energies

Simon Berke @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

    Title: Investigation of the Detector Response of a Timepix Detector

 

2014

Juan Carlos Leal @ Heidelberg University, Medical faculty
 

     Title: First Investigations on a New Method for Monitoring of Basic Parameters of Therapeutic Carbon Ion Beams Using a Flat Panel EPID

Merle Reinhart @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

    Title: Secondary Particle Track Yield Measurements and 3D Reconstruction Techniques

Tanja Gaa @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

    Title: Visualization of inhomogeneities in a phantom irradiated by carbon ion beams using prompt secondary ions

Kathrin Spindeldreier @ Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

    Title: Enhanced Studies Of Energy Loss, Fragmentation And Beam Monitoring In Therapeutic Ion Beams

 

2012

Klaus Gwosch @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

    Title: Non-Invasive Monitoring of Carbon Ion Beam Therapy by Tracking of Secondary Ions – An Initial Study

 

2011

Lucas Huber @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

    Title: Patient Position Verification in Ion Beam Therapy Using Silicon Detectors And Ion Beams

 

2010

Bernadette Hartmann @ Institut für Physik, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II - Chemie und Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität at Halle-Wittenberg

    Title: Quality Assurance in Ion Beam Therapy: Investigations towards New Detectors

2025

Maike Hermle @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Evaluating ion path reconstruction methods for ion-beam radiography based on Monte Carlo simulations

2024

Alexander Wiegand @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Characterisation of the Silicion Pixel Detector Timepix 2 for applications in ion-beam radiography

2021

Annika Schlechter @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Monitoring of Carbon Ion Radiotherapy using track distributions of secondary ions at different detection angles
 

Florian Kehrein @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Investigation of the reproducibility of water-equivalent thickness calibration for helium-beam radiography

 

2020

Catherine Knobloch @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Water-Equivalent Thickness Calibration for Helium-Beam Radiography

Tomas Yanez @ Hochschule Mannheim, Fakultät Informationstechnik - Studiengang Medizintechnik

   Title: Ion detection with nanosecond time resolution using a silicon pixel detector at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center: Investigation and correction of time-delay effects

Lukáš Marek @ Technical University of Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering

   Title: Directional and spectrometric mapping of secondary radiation induced during hadron radiotherapy with miniaturized particle trackers

 

2013

Sonja Schellhammer @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Single Particle Detection in a Therapeutical Proton Beam

 

2011

Jan-Eric Meissner @ Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

   Title: Untersuchung zur Auswertung von EBT2-Filmen nach Photonen- und Ionenbestrahlung