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Introduction 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.…
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In cooperation with radiation oncologists, our group analyzes clinical data to determine dose response curves and to derive tolerance doses in normal tissues. For ion beams, this allows analyzing…
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Hypoxia is one of the most important resistance factors in radiotherapy and correctly predicting the response of hypoxic tumors would allow optimizing the spatio-temporal dose distribution to…
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In treatment planning, the increased effectiveness of ion beams is considered by the relative biological effectiveness (RBE). As the RBE depends on ion species, linear energy transfer (LET), dose…
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During the heavy ion therapy project GSI, we contributed to the development of patient positioning, treatment planning and dosimetry, which were then employed for patient treatments from 1997 -…
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Conventional image-guided radiotherapy (IgRT) techniques based on x-ray imaging is still not fully established in clinical routine. Our group investigates the geometrical and dosimetrical accuracy…
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The just recently introduced magnetic resonance (MR)-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) is a very promising treatment modality allowing for an optimized dose coverage of the tumor while sparing the…
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Introduction Image-guided radiotherapy (IgRT) is a well-established procedure, however, adapting dose delivery to anatomical changes between or within treatment fractions is still not yet…
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Mission We are a team of physicists, medical informaticians, data scientists, mathematicians, and radio-oncologists working togetherto make future cancer treatments more precise, more personal, and…