1. ADVANCING DYNAMIC TRAJECTORY RADIOTHERAPY EXPLORING ROBUSTNESS FOR TREATMENT PLANNING AND MANAGING MOTION FOR DELIVERY 

   Loebner, Hannes A. (2024)

   Abstract About one in three individuals will develop cancer during their lives which makes cancer a leading cause of death. Fortunately, advances in diagnosing and treating cancer in the last century have improved patient survival and treatment outcome. Modern cancer treatment is based on three pillars. Radiotherapy, alongside surgery and chemotherapy, is prescribed to almost every second cancer patient as a single or combined treatment ...

   Doctoral Thesis

2. Robustness analysis of dynamic trajectory radiotherapy and volumetric modulated arc therapy plans for head and neck cancer 

   Loebner, Hannes A.; Bertholet, Jenny; Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; et al. (2024)

   Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology

   Background and purpose Dynamic trajectory radiotherapy (DTRT) has been shown to improve healthy tissue sparing compared to volumetric arc therapy (VMAT). This study aimed to assess and compare the robustness of DTRT and VMAT treatment-plans for head and neck (H&N) cancer to patient-setup (PS) and machine-positioning uncertainties. Materials and methods The robustness of DTRT and VMAT plans previously created for 46 H&N cases, prescribed ...

   Journal Article

3. Mathematical guarantees for physics-informed machine learning 

   De Ryck, Tim (2024)

   Doctoral Thesis

4. Employing nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for scanning probe microscopy from cryogenic to room temperature 

   Ernst, Stefan (2024)

   The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a crystal lattice defect in diamond. It exhibits a spin-1 ground state that is widely used in quantum metrology and quantum information. This prominence stems from its favorable spin and optical properties, which span a wide temperature range from zero to over 600K. In the field of scanning probe microscopy, for example, the NV center is used as a quantum sensor that is raster-scanned ...

   Doctoral Thesis

5. Should Transformation Products Change the Way We Manage Chemicals? 

   Zahn D.; Arp H.P.H.; Fenner K.; et al. (2024)

   Environmental Science and Technology

   When chemical pollutants enter the environment, they can undergo diverse transformation processes, forming a wide range of transformation products (TPs), some of them benign and others more harmful than their precursors. To date, the majority of TPs remain largely unrecognized and unregulated, particularly as TPs are generally not part of routine chemical risk or hazard assessment. Since many TPs formed from oxidative processes are more ...

   Review Article

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