Keywords

Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; Heavy Ion Radiotherapy; Radiation Oncology; Radiotherapy; Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted

Research group(s)

• Medical Radiation Research
  Head: Dietmar Georg
  Research Area: The vision of our group is the optimization of the treatment outcome of radiation oncology, alone or in combination with established chemotherapy or novel targeted strategies of drug treatment, with conventional photon or innovative ion-beams.
  Members:
  Nicole Nesvacil
  Andreas Renner
  Gerd Heilemann
  Wolfgang Lechner
  Sylvia Gruber
  Monika Clausen
  Stefan Ecker
  Andreas Resch
  Petra Trnkova
  Natalia Kostiukhina
  Dietmar Georg
  Barbara Knäusl
  Hermann Fuchs
  Elisabeth S. Gruber
  Peter Kuess

Research interests

My primary research focus lies on motion management strategies for the treatment of moving targets using photons as well as protons and carbon ions.

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

• 4D dosimetry
• 4D imaging
• Treatment planning

Selected publications

1. Knäusl, B. et al., 2012. Can treatment of pediatric Hodgkin’s lymphoma be improved by PET imaging and proton therapy? Strahlentherapie und Onkologie, 189(1), pp.54–61. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00066-012-0235-8.
2. Knäusl, B. et al., 2012. PET based volume segmentation with emphasis on the iterative TrueX algorithm. Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 22(1), pp.29–39. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2010.12.003.
3. Kostiukhina, N. et al., 2017. Advanced Radiation DOSimetry phantom (ARDOS): a versatile breathing phantom for 4D radiation therapy and medical imaging. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 62(20), pp.8136–8153. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aa86ea.
4. Knäusl, B. et al., 2016. Can particle beam therapy be improved using helium ions? – a planning study focusing on pediatric patients. Acta Oncologica, 55(6), pp.751–759. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/0284186X.2015.1125016.
5. Mock, U. et al., 2014. Assessment of improved organ at risk sparing for meningioma: Light ion beam therapy as boost versus sole treatment option. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 111(3), pp.451–456. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2014.05.018.