Division Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology
CBCTEthosAdaptive Radiotherapy
Computed tomography (CT) is a non-invasive medical imaging technique allowing a detailed internal view of body structures. A CT measures X-ray attenuations by different tissues inside the body by using a rotating X-ray tube and …
Cone beam computed tomography (or CBCT, also referred to as C-arm CT, cone beam volume CT, flat panel CT or Digital Volume Tomography (DVT)) is a medical imaging technique consisting of X-ray computed tomography where …
HZDR on CBCT
DKFZ on Imaging in Radiation Therapy using Motion-Compensated Reconstruction
More than 450,000 people are diagnosed with cancer each year in Germany. Cancer is a disease that poses enormous challenges to research, because every cancer is different and its course can vary immensely even from …
Our research is dedicated to in-silico radiotherapy simulation of cancer patients undergoing curative irradiation treatment. The challenge for technically precise radiation therapy lies in adapting dose delivery to deformations in the patient’s anatomy induced by …