PhDs for science graduates - The Institute of Cancer.
PhD thesis, I demonstrate that atlas-based methods can be used for segmenting head and neck structures giving results as comparable as manual segmentation. In addition, I demonstrate that those methods can be used to support radiotherapy treatment solely based on MR imaging by generating synthetic CT images. The radiation doses calculated from.
This thesis investigates and develops a number improvements to a category of radiation therapy called stereotactic radiotherapy, most notably for spinal tumours. By careful consideration of planning parameters, treatment delivery accuracy can be improved and skin toxicity reduced for patients receiving this treatment. Improvements to patient safety and departmental efficiency with stereotactic.
Alumni Dr Katie Spencer. Katie is a Clinical Oncologist who completed her MRC funded PhD in 2019, investigating the cost-effectiveness of the palliative radiotherapy treatments delivered within the English NHS radiotherapy with the Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds, co-supervised from Edinburgh Health Economics. Katie is interested in the value of treatments delivered.
Tesson, Mathias Christian Stephane (2013) Copper-dependent enhancement of targeted radiotherapy by combination with the radiosensitiser disulfiram. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Full text available as.
Radiotherapy represents an important phase of treatment for a large number of cancer patients. It is essential that resources used to deliver this treatment are used efficiently. This thesis approaches the problem of scheduling treatments in a radiotherapy centre. Data about the daily intake of patients are collected and analysed. Several approaches are presented to create a schedule every day.
The main goal of this thesis was to investigate the benefit of using novel radiotherapy techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided photon therapy and intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT), to treat this patient category. In light of the work shown throughout the thesis, the main conclusions are: (1) Average motion and patient set-up uncertainties during radiotherapy.
PhD: successful completion of research project, including thesis submission and final viva; Students are expected to register for a minimum of 2 years (or the part-time equivalent). There is only 1 exit point: MD(Res): successful completion of research project, including thesis submission and oral examination; Degree-awarding institution.