PhD candidate: Development of Interventional Hybrid X-ray/Nuclear Imaging
About the position
Our new device, developed at the UMC Utrecht and called a hybrid C-arm, combines nuclear and X-ray imaging to get live hybrid images during minimal invasive interventions. The overall aim of the project you will be working on is to clinically demonstrate that liver cancer treatment can be more precise in much shorter procedure times using the hybrid C-arm. Your tasks and responsibilities may include i) development of software to do (real) time imaging and dosimetry during (oncological) interventions (requiring algorithm implementation skills) ii) hardware improvement of the hybrid C-arm (requiring physics and technical skills) iii) support of a clinical evaluation study and iv) processing and analyzing the clinical data and phantom data (requiring hands on skills). You will be working at the medical physics group of the department of radiology. Here you will collaborate with physicists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians and other researchers and PhD students appointed to the project including researchers from the TU Delft. This project is part of the broader research consortium IMAGIO and funded by the European Union.
