Dr Juergen Meyer 
Position
Senior Lecturer in Medical Physics
Director of the Medical Physics Programme
Qualifications
Dipl. Ing. (FH), BSc (Hons), PhD
Room
820, Physics and Astronomy
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364-2987 Ext. 7588
Fax: +64 3 364-2469
Email: juergen.meyer@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch, 8140
New Zealand
Background
Juergen studied Medical Engineering in Germany and Medical Instrumentation in the UK. After brief spell in industry he did his PhD in Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy in the UK. This was followed by a position as Senior Fellow at the University of Washington Medical Centre, USA, where he was part of an industry sponsored international research consortium on intensity modulated radiation therapy. Before moving to New Zealand Juergen worked at the University Hospital in Wuerzburg Germany as a clinical Medical Physicist in the radiotherapy department. Besides clinical work with cancer patients Juergen was strongly involved in research investigating the possibility of real-time correction of respiratory induced tumour movement using a robotic couch. At Wuerzburg he was also part of an international consortium on image-guided radiation therapy. His general research interest are intensity-modulated radiotherapy, image-guided radiotherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy. He has a particular interest in both real-time tracking and adaptation of lung tumours.
UC Research Profile
Courses
Supervision
Post-doc
- Stuart Lansley, Synthetic diamond x-ray detectors for clinical applications, 2009–2011
- Gregory Betzel, Synthetic diamond x-ray detectors for clinical applications, 2010–2010
PhD
- Alicia Cavan, Pseudo-calorimetric dosimetry for Microbeam Radiotherapy (MRT) based on optical interference, 2010-
- Syen Nik, Evaluating the benefits of spectroscopic imaging in discriminating biological materials, 2009–2012
- Gregory Betzel, Synthetic diamonds for radiation dosimetry, 2009-2010
MSc
- Neil Campbell, Effects of modulation constraints on Volumetric Arc Therapy plan quality and efficiency, 2011-2013
- Maggie Anderson, TBD, 2011 -2013
- Ihab Ramadaan, Design and Validation of an Adaptive Radiotherapy Approach in External Beam Radiotherapy Treatments of Head and Neck Cancer, 2011-2013
- Jethro Donaldson, Optically Stimulated Luminescence of Mn2+ and Eu2+ in NaMgF3 and RbMgF3: Characterization in Medical Radiations, 2011 -2013
- Teyu Chyou, Patient setup guidance and position monitoring in radiotherapy using 3D vision, 2011-2012
- Naomi Flatman, An analysis into the role of positron emission tomography in the treatment of cervical cancer through use of Bayesian networks, 2011 – 2012
- Qing Yang, Development of low-cost quality control tests for SPECT gamma cameras, 2011 – 2012
- Kaidi Liang, A fibre optics approach to radiation dosimetry, 2011 – 2012
- Katherine Fricker, Collateral exposure: the additional dose from radiotherapy treatment, 2010-
- Marco Serpa Lopez, Investigation of the Suitability of Gating and Real-time Tracking for the Compensation of Breathing-induced Motion, 2010-2011
- Jonathan Downs, Monte Carlo simulation of the skin-dose modification due to immobilisation devices used during IMRT head and neck treatments, 2009-
- David Jolly, RapidArc – Inverse Planning, Dose Calculation and Clinical Application, 2009-2011
- Jidi Sun, Implementation of 2-Step Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) and Arc Therapy (IMAT), 2009-2010
- Mohammad Zeidan, Measuring the Mean Glanddular Dose (MGD) by Using Themoluminescent Dosimetry (TLD), 2008-2009
- James Talbot, Patient position guidance system in radiation therapy using augmented reality, 2008-2009
- Florentina Baluti, Monte Carlo simulations of chemical vapour deposition diamond detectors, 2007-2009
- Andrew Blair, Skin dose measurement for interventional cardiology, 2007-2009
- Ruth Peszynski, The creation of a procedure to verify the accuracy of delivery of prescribed radiation doses to patients in radiotherapy, 2007-2008
- Latoya Flewellen, Combining mild hyperthermia and ionizing radiation; the cell-killing effect on rodent leukaemia cells, 2007-2008
- Phil Satory, An investigation into EPID flood fields independent from the linear accelerator beam, 2006-2008
BSc Hons
- Rune Thing, Simulation of energy selective computed tomography (CT) projection data, 2010
- Andreas Mueller, Visualisation of radiation treatment parameters in an Augmented Reality environment, 2009
- Alicia Cavan, Lung tumour modelling for radiotherapy, 2009
- April Clark, Assessing the influence of age, sex and natural-variability in MRI-derived brain parameters from a large cohort of healthy volunteers. 2009
- Kai Lenz, Modelling of the correlation between patient respiration and tumour movement, 2007
Project Students
- Abdullah Alotaibi, Radiation treatment planning with Prism, 2010
- Joel Rayen, Application of CVD diamond as thermoluminescent dosimeter, 2009-2010
- Alicia Cavan, Lung tumour modelling, 2009-2010
- Bernadette Hartmann, Implementation of a self-guided tutorial for treatment planning in radiation therapy, 2008-2009
- Richard Heinz, Implementation of a cone-beam CT reconstruction algorithm, 2008
Research Interests
- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
- Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
- Adaptive radiation therapy (ART)
- Stereotactic radiation therapy
- Beam-angle optimization
- Bayesian networks and decision making
- Deformable image registration
- Real-time tumour tracking and modelling
- Cone-beam computed tomography and 6D position correction with robotic hexapod couch
- 4D computed tomography
- Augmented reality