Projects - RAPTOR Plus

RAPTORplus projects

Right-time Adaptive Particle Therapy Of canceR - Personalisation through anatomical plus biological adaptation

The Doctoral Network RAPTORplus will work on 18 individual research projects.

List of PhD projects

Data processing and transfer optimisation for enabling online adaptive particle therapy

Host: Cosylab d.d., Ljubljana, Slovenia

PhD program: Faculty of Computer and Information Science at University of Ljubljana

Assessing and improving first online adaptive proton therapy workflows of a clinic-industry consortium

Host: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden – Rossendorf e.V., Dresden, Germany

PhD program: OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Dresden

Reducing the cost of online adaptive proton therapy: automation, workflow & health economics evaluation

Host: Center for Proton Therapy at Paul Scherer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

PhD program: Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Multimodal early response assessment in radiotherapy

Host: Brainlab SE, Munich, Germany

PhD program: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Faculty of Medicine

Assessing the benefits of adaptive proton therapy in paediatric patients

Host: University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

PhD program: University of Manchester

The benefit of online adaptive proton therapy for paediatric patients

Host: Center for Proton Therapy at Paul Scherer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

PhD program: ETH Zurich

Novel CBCT designs for online imaging in proton therapy within a breath hold

Host: Ion Beam Applications SA, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

PhD program: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Longitudinal CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Assessment: Towards Robust, Quality-Assured and Biomarker-Driven Adaptation

Host: University of Bern, Department of Radiation Oncology, Department of Digital Medicine, sitem-insel center, Bern, Switzerland

PhD program: University of Bern

AI-Driven Robust Synthetic CT for Adaptive Proton Therapy

Host: University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Radiation Oncology, Groningen, The Netherlands

PhD program: University Medical Center Groningen

Pre-clinical evaluations of a novel, prompt gamma-ray and fast neutron-based treatment verification system

Host: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

PhD program: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Real-time online monitoring techniques for range and dose-guided adaptation in proton therapy

Host: Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany

PhD program: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Benefit of prompt-gamma-based treatment verification to trigger the online-adaptive intervention

Host: TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

PhD program: OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Dresden

Micrometrical assessment of biological response to particle therapy

Host: National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Division of Torino, Italy

PhD program: University of Torino, Physics Department

Multi-scale modelling from quantitative MRI in particle therapy

Host: Politecnico di Milano – CartCasLab, Milano, Italy

PhD program: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Correlating early-appearing medical imaging changes with variable RBE-based dose calculations for establishing an adaptive proton therapy strategy

Host: University of Navarra, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid, Spain

PhD program: University of Navarra

AI-driven anatomical and response adapted proton therapy

Host: Danish Center for Particle Therapy, Aarhus University, Denmark

PhD program: Aarhus University

Robust optimization including radiobiological models and functional imaging

Host: RaySearch Laboratories AB, Stockholm, Sweden

PhD program: Stockholm University

5D model-based treatment personalization for right-time adaptive proton therapy

Host: KU Leuven, Department of Oncology, Leuven, Belgium

PhD program: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven