Mag Barbara Knäusl, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology
Position: Research Associate (Postdoc)
ORCID: 0000-0003-4031-1711
T +43 1 40400 72710
barbara.knaeusl@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Medical Physics; Radiation Oncology
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: - Christian Doppler Laboratory for Image and knowledge dRivEN prEcision radiation oncology
Head: Barbara Knäusl
Research Area: Laboratory head: Barbara Knäusl and Maximilian Schmid
Members:
Research interests
My primary research focus lies on motion management and outcome assessment for the treatment of moving targets using photons as well as protons and carbon ions.
Grants
- CD-Laboratory for Image and knowledge driven precision radiation oncology (IRENE) (2023)
Source of Funding: CDG (Christian Doppler Research Association), Christian Doppler Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Selected publications
- Knäusl, B. et al. (2024) ‘A review of the clinical introduction of 4D particle therapy research concepts’, Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, 29, p. 100535. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phro.2024.100535.
- Knäusl, B. et al. (2023) ‘Patient Breathing Motion and Delivery Specifics Influencing the Robustness of a Proton Pancreas Irradiation’, Cancers, 15(9), p. 2550. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15092550.
- Knäusl, B. et al. (2023) ‘Possibilities and challenges when using synthetic computed tomography in an adaptive carbon-ion treatment workflow’, Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 33(2), pp. 146–154. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2022.05.003.
- 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: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aa86ea.
- 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: https://doi.org/10.3109/0284186x.2015.1125016.