Andreas Resch, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology
Position: Research Associate (Postdoc)
ORCID: 0000-0002-6728-455X
andreas.resch@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; Monte Carlo Method; Radiotherapy
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:
Research interests
My primary research focus is on beam quality effects, dosimetry and Monte Carlo simulations in ion-beam therapy.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
- Monte Carlo Simulations (Gate/Geant4)
- Numerical Methods
- Dosimetry
- Ion beam therapy
Selected publications
- Resch, A.F. et al., 2019. Evaluation of electromagnetic and nuclear scattering models in GATE/Geant4 for proton therapy. Medical Physics, 46(5), pp.2444,
- Almeida, I.P. et al., 2018. Monte Carlo proton dose calculations using a radiotherapy specific dual-energy CT scanner for tissue segmentation and range assessment. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 63(11), p.115008. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aabb60.
- Resch, A.F., Fuchs, H. & Georg, D., 2017. Benchmarking GATE/Geant4 for 16O ion beam therapy. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 62(18), pp.N474,
- Resch, A.F. et al., 2017. Quantification of the uncertainties of a biological model and their impact on variable RBE proton treatment plan optimization. Physica Medica, 36, pp.91,
- Kurz, C. et al., 2017. A Monte-Carlo study to assess the effect of 1.5 T magnetic fields on the overall robustness of pencil-beam scanning proton radiotherapy plans for prostate cancer. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 62(21), pp.8470–8482. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aa8de9.