Keywords

Heavy Ion Radiotherapy; Radiation Oncology; Thermoluminescent Dosimetry

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

• particle beam characterization (protons, carbons)

• dosimetry: ionization chambers, EBT3 films, thermoluminescent dosimeters

• relative biological effectiveness determination (RBE) in particle beams from in vitro studies