PhD in Medical Physics

KU Leuven Proton Center in Leuven, Belgium. The proton center is fully integrated within the existing academic hospital. The center encompasses two vaults, with their own accelerator: one for the treatment of patients and one dedicated vault for research purposes. A Proteus®ONE system capable of pencil beam scanning is installed with the full scope of imaging modalities (kV-kV, CBCT), including an in-room dual energy CT on-rails./nProject: RAPTORplus aims at adapting proton therapy treatment with multi-modality image information acquired at various time scales. The opensource treatment planning system (OpenTPS) will be extended to optimize and/or evaluate a treatment using multi-modality image information (3 first dimensions), timing considerations (4th dimension), and biological modeling (5th dimension). Treatments with X-rays and protons will be both simulated./nThe Doctoral candidate will work at the Laboratory of Experimental Radiotherapy in the Department of Oncology under the supervision of Prof. Edmond Sterpin.