Detail

Keywords

Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; Medical Physics; Proton Therapy; Radiation Oncology; Radiotherapy

Research group(s)

• Christian Doppler Laboratory for Image and knowledge dRivEN prEcision radiation oncology
  Head: Barbara Knäusl
  Research Area: Laboratory head: Barbara Knäusl and Maximilian Schmid
  Members:
  Leo Andexlinger
  Julius Arnold
  Nicole Eder-Nesvacil
  Hannah Jungreuthmayer
  Barbara Knäusl
  Lorenz Wolf
• 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:
  Leo Andexlinger
  Julius Arnold
  Ana Beatriz Dias
  Nicole Eder-Nesvacil
  Hermann Fuchs
  Dietmar Georg
  Elisabeth S. Gruber
  Sylvia Gruber
  Gerd Heilemann
  Hannah Jungreuthmayer
  Barbara Knäusl
  Peter Kuess
  Wolfgang Lechner
  Andreas Renner
  Lorenz Wolf
  Lukas Zimmermann

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

• (Proton and Carbon) Ion Beam Therapy
• Workflow development
• Dosimetry
• Beam Modelling
• Treatment planning
• Dose-response analysis
• Motion management

Selected publications

1. Wolf, L. et al. (2025) ‘Commissioning of a precision preclinical 200 kV x‐ray irradiator based on modular adaptations’, Medical Physics [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.17758.
2. Brunner, J. et al. (2024) ‘Dosimetric characteristics of 3D-printed and epoxy-based materials for particle therapy phantoms’, Frontiers in Physics, 12. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2024.1323788.
3. Knäusl, B. et al. (2023) ‘Requirements for dose calculation on an active scanned proton beamline for small, shallow fields’, Physica Medica, 113, p. 102659. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2023.102659.
4. Abdarahmane, I. et al. (2025) ‘An open-source irradiation and data-handling framework for pre-clinical ion-beam research’, Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2025.08.002.
5. Martin, L. et al. (2026) “Helium pencil beam commissioning and beam modeling,” Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology. Edited by , 40, p. 101046. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phro.2026.101046.