Ihab Ramadaan
Position
Medical Physics MSc Thesis Student (Clinical)
Qualifications
BTech University of Auckland
MSc Part I (Medical Physics), University of Canterbury
Contact Details
Registrar based at the Wellington Hospital, 2011-2013
Email: ihab.ramadaan@pg.canterbury.ac.nz or Ihab.Ramadaan@ccdhb.org.nz
Research
Design and Validation of an Adaptive Radiotherapy Approach in External Beam Radiotherapy Treatments of Head and Neck Cancer
Supervisors: Juergen Meyer, Karsten Peick
Profile
In 2010 Ihab Ramadaan graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) in Medical Physics and Imaging Technologies.
In the same year he began his Master of Science in Medical Physics at the University of Canterbury as part of the Australasian College of Physicists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) TEAP Medical Physics Registrar training programme.
Ihab’s thesis project is aimed at designing an adaptive radiation therapy strategy for arc radiotherapy treatments of patients with head and neck cancer. Adaptive radiotherapy involves the use of image guidance to identify and track anatomical modifications in the patient during treatment, and then
modify the treatment plan to account for these changes. The project will use ![[Source: Varian Medical Systems]](Ramadaan_clip_image002_0000.jpg)
the additional information provided
by deformable image registration over rigid
image registration to more accurately delineate those changes.
Adapting a treatment plan to the changes in the patient’s body allows the reduction of the safety margins around treatment target volumes and critical structures, and thus permitting greater sparing of normal tissue. This approach is thought to be especially significant in arc radiotherapy treatments that present multiple areas of high dose gradients.
[Source: Varian Medical Systems]