Recent Ph.D. theses

Previous dissertations

Björn Andreassen

Development of improved radiation therapy techniques using narrow scanned photon beams

Date of dissertation: December 10, 2010

Faculty opponent: Professor Antony Lomax, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Schweiz

Johanna Kempe

Development of analytical transport methods for biologically optimized light ion therapy

Date of dissertation: 16 December, 2008

Faculty opponent: Dr Naruhiro Matsufuji, National Institue of Radiological Sciences, Japan

Bartosz Górka

Development of tissue-equivalent CVD-diamond radiation detectors with small interface effects

Date of dissertation: 12 September 2008

Faculty opponent: Dr Hugo Palmans, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom

Malin Hollmark

Absorbed dose and biological effect in light ion therapy

Date of dissertation: 5 June 2008

Faculty opponent: Professor Oliver Jäkel, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Magdalena Adamus-Górka

Improved dose response modeling for normal tissue damage and therapy optimization

Date of dissertation: 4 April 2008

Faculty opponent: Professor Randall K. Ten Haken, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Annica Jernberg

Ultrasound, ions and combined modalities for increased local tumour cell death in radiation therapy

Date of dissertation: 24 May 2007

Faculty opponent: Professor Ingela Turesson, Uppsala University

Jan-Erik Lillhök

The microdosimetric variance-covariance method used for beam quality characterization in radiation protection and radiation therapy

Date of dissertation: 23 March 2007

Faculty opponent: Dr. Bernd Grosswendt, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany

Janina Östling

New Efficient Detector for Radiation Therapy Imaging using Gas Electron Multipliers

Date of dissertation: 17 March 2006

Faculty opponent: Professor Fabio Sauli, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Sharif Qatarneh

Development of a Whole Body Atlas for Radiation Therapy Planning and Treatment Optimization

Date of dissertation: 10 Februari 2006

Faculty opponent: Professor Anders Ahnesjö, Uppsala University and Umeå University

Alejandro Sanchez-Crespo

Novel computational methods for image analysis and quantification using position sensitive radiation detectors

Date of dissertation: 15 December 2005

Faculty opponent: Professor Magnus Dahlbom, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles

Brigida da Costa Ferreira

Biological optimization of angle of incidence and intensity modulation in breast and cervix cancer radiation therapy

Date of dissertation: 22 December 2004

Faculty opponent: Professor Ion Christian Chiricuta, University of Limburg, Germany

Johan Nilsson

Accurate description of heterogeneous tumors for biologically optimized radiation therapy

Date of dissertation: 21 December 2004

Faculty opponent: Professor Søren Bentzen, University of Wisconsin, Madison