Medical Physics

The Chair of “Experimental Physics – Medical Physics”, established in August 2012 in the Faculty for Physics of the LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, aims at promoting research and teaching in the field of Medical Physics, with special emphasis on advances in pre-clinical and clinical image-guided radiotherapy for a wide range of beam modalities, from established photon and hadron sources up to novel laser-based system.

One of our major efforts is on advancing instrumentation for pre-clinical research to enable elucidating not yet understood processes of radiation interaction in tumor and normal tissue, to pave the way for improved therapeutic strategies. To this end, we have developed a novel precision image-guided radiation research platform in the framework of the ERC project SIRMIO (www.lmu.de/sirmio), and are engaged in enabling well-controlled biomedical experiments at the Center for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA). Moreover, we are pursuing different lines of research to improve clinical image-guided radiotherapy, leveraging novel experimental and computational methods for a broad range of imaging modality featuring ion radiography and tomography, ionoacoustics, prompt gamma and positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, X-ray cone beam as well as dual energy and spectral computed tomography (CT).

All our activities benefit from a widespread network of national and international collaborations with University Hospitals and Ion Beam Therapy Facilities, including the LMU University Hospital. More details can be found at www.med.physik.uni-muenchen.de