News 2025
Jan. 25: Project MIRROR is funded by NCT „Spenden gegen Krebs“
This interdisciplinary starter project will explore visualization concepts and feasibility for a "digital patient twin" - a browser-based software tool that allows patients to access all essential information in radiation therapy, such as imaging data, therapeutic dose distributions and medical decisions.
The exploratory short-term project, lead by Dr. Martin Niklas and Dr. Kristina Giske, is an example for the excellent integration of different disciplines of modern healthcare at DKFZ combining radiotherapy, radiology, clinical and computational medical physics, AI applications, as well as IT and software engineering aspects.
More details are available on NCT page and on the website of the research group “Computational Patient Models”.
Jan. 25: Christoph Schmelzer Prize for Annika Schlechter
Annika Schlechter, a master’s student of the research group “Novel Detection Techniques for Ion Beams” in the Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, was awarded the Christoph Schmelzer Prize of the Association for the Promotion of Tumor Therapy with Heavy Ions for her for her outstanding master thesis about “2.5D imaging: Accessing 3D information of a 2D ion-beam radiograph: Accessing 3D information of a 2D ion-beam radiograph)”.
Using an anthropomorphic phantom, Annika Schlechter was the first to experimentally demonstrate that information about the third dimension, i.e. about the depth of potential anatomical changes within the patient, can be extracted from a 2D ion-beam radiograph. She was able to convincingly verify that the accuracy of the depth determination can achieve clinical relevance.
More information about the ceremony is available here.
Jan. 25: PCSM School in Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) (Kopie 1)
From December 12 to 14, 2025, the “PCSM School in Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART)” took place in Bankok at our cooperation partner “Princess Srisavangavadhana College of Medicine, Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA)”. Prof. Jäkel (Head of the Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology) and Dr. Fabian Weykamp (Senior Physician of the Clinical Cooperation Unit Radiation Therapy) took part as invited speakers, together with Prof. Richter from OncoRay in Dresden.
The “PCSM School in Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART)” is another visible component of our successful cooperation with Thailand. Further information on the PCSM School program can be found here.
