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Searchresult: Novel Detection Techniques for Ion Beams
Last update: : 28.12.2024
About Us Third Party Funding Awards Publications Group Members Theses Ion beam radiotherapy & its challenges Ion beam radiotherapy is a highly precise treatment modality for tumors…
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Searchresult: Medical Engineering
Last update: : 27.12.2024
Medical engineering plays a key role in advancing radiotherapy, particularly through the development of phantoms - engineered models that simulate human tissues and organs. These phantoms enable…
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Searchresult: Radiotherapy Optimization - Projects
Last update: : 27.12.2024
matRad - open source dose calculation and treatment planning for research and education matRad is an open source software for radiation treatment planning of intensity-modulated photon, proton, and…
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Searchresult: Radiotherapy Optimization
Last update: : 27.12.2024
Introduction Radiotherapy treatment planning is a heavily computerized process relying on accurate dose calculation and optimization to enable control of cancerous tissue with high dose while…
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Searchresult: Clinical Research Cooperation "Medical Physics"
Last update: : 27.12.2024
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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Searchresult: Clinical Investigations
Last update: : 27.12.2024
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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Searchresult: Radiobiological Modeling
Last update: : 27.12.2024
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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Searchresult: Experimental Radiobiology of Ion Beams
Last update: : 27.12.2024
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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Searchresult: Ion Beam Radiotherapy
Last update: : 27.12.2024
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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Searchresult: Other Image-Guided Radiotherapy Techniques
Last update: : 27.12.2024
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…