Received grant in 2018

Brachytherapy is a course of cancer treatment where a source of radioactivity is placed inside the tumor. The dosage is highly localised which require extreme precision. Contrary to other courses of radiation therapy, online monitoring in connection with brachytherapy does not exist.

In this project a newly developed monitoring system will be implemented in three Danish cancer departments. The purpose is to ensure that possible mistakes are detected during the therapy so the treatment can be interrupted and corrected before the full dosage is delivered.

Multidisciplinary organisation
The project includes medical doctors and medical physicists from all Danish departments that perform brachytherapy as well as engineering students from Aarhus University School of Engineering.

Project stakeholders
Aarhus University Hospital
Physics researchers:

• Jacob Graversen Johansen, PhD, postdoc. Primary contact, mail: jacjoa@rm.dk
• Gustavo Kertzscher, postdoc
• Kari Tanderup, Professor

Medical physicists:

• Susanne Rylander
• Steffen Bjerre Hokland
• Søren Kynde Nielsen
• Mette Skovhus Thomsen, Chief Physicist

Medical doctors:

• Simon Buus
• Lise Bentzen
• Jacob Lindegaard
• Lars Ulrik Fokdal

Rigshospitalet
Medical physicists:

• Flemming Kjær-Kristoffersen
• Jens Peter Bangsgaard, Chief Physicist

Medical doctors:

• Trine Juhler Nøttrup

Odense University Hospital
Medical physicists:

• Irene Hazell
• Knud Aage Werenberg, Chief Physicist