Job Maastro - PhD student in Dose Guided Radiation Therapy with time-resolved 4D portal imaging (M/F)
MAASTRO CLINIC has a vacancy for a PhD student in Dose Guided Radiation Therapy with time-resolved 4D portal imaging (M/F).
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Location Maastricht Scientific fields Natural Sciences, Engineering Function types PhD positions Education University Graduate Hours 36.0 hours per week End procedure 1 September 2010 Job number AT 072910 Translations en
Job description
In this position you will carryout research in dose guided radiotherapy for various cancer sites, e.g. lung. You will develop a method for obtaining 4D (time-resolved) portal images of a patient during treatment, and use these images to quantify and comprehend changes in patient geometry compared to the planning CT, and other potential causes of divergence. You will also use these images to reconstruct the true received dose during daily treatment fractions and compare this dose to the planned dose. For this you will use the (4D) cone-beam CT images acquired during the treatment. You will help develop protocols for adaptive radiotherapy based on your findings.
Requirements
We are looking for acandidate with a masters degree (or equivalent) in Physics or Engineering. We expect you to have a GPA of at least 3.5/4 for your Masters degree. Experience with image processing is highly valued, and experience with adaptive radiotherapy is a plus. Programming experience and enthusiasm for it is a must. The enthusiastic candidate that we are looking for must be fluent in English. You must provide two letters of reference.
Conditions of employment
Conditions of Employment and salaryare based on the Dutch Collective Labour Agreement for Hospitals (CAO-Ziekenhuizen). You will receive a fulltime contract (36 hours/week) for an initial period of one year, with the intention for extension up to 4 years. Your salary will be according to the scale of scientific researcher 4 of MAASTRO clinic, and is depending on your relevant experience. Furthermore the Collective Labour Agreement offers an extended package of secondary conditions, among others an 8%-holiday bonus, a yearly bonus and excellent pension arrangements and health insurance arrangements.
Contract type
Temporary
one year, with the intention for extension up to 4 years.
Organisation
MAASTRO, Maastricht Radiation Oncology, is a co-operation between MAASTRO clinic, the University of Maastricht (UM) and the University Hospital Maastricht (MUMC+) (see http://www.maastro.nl). MAASTRO consists of several divisions, including MAASTRO clinic, which offers state-of-the-art radiotherapy to more than 3500 cancer patients each year from the mid and South Limburg area in the Netherlands. In addition, research and training at MAASTRO is carried out in MAASTRO Physics, MAASTRO Trials, MAASTRO School, and MAASTRO Lab.
MAASTRO clinic is a radiotherapy treatment and research facility embedded within the GROW research institute of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Maastricht University. Research carried out in the past has focused on molecular PET/CT imaging, computer aided theragnostics and dose guided radiotherapy (DGRT). In the latter we have developed techniques to determine the real dose delivered to the patient during radiotherapy, based on portal imaging and cone beam imaging technology. We have successfully introduced this methodology in the clinic. We are now expanding our DGRT research activities by using time-resolved 4D portal imaging.
MAASTRO clinic has seven permanent physicists, several technicians, informaticians, and 13 PhD students/postdocs and is fully equipped with linear accelerators, verification imaging devices, a brachytherapy suite, a PET-CT scanner, a wide bore CT scanner, many treatment planning stations etc. Together with MAASTRO lab we installed a small animal irradiation/imaging facility. MAASTRO collaborates with TU/Eindhoven, University of Toronto, the McGill University of Montreal, the University of Leuven, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, and we host a large international in-silico trial on particle therapy.
Additional information
Further informationmay be obtained from Frank Verhaegen,Head of Physics Research, by e-mail: frank.verhaegen@maastro.nl or by calling +31-(0)88-4455792. Please also visit www.maastro.nl and www.grow-um.nl.
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