Area of research
Radiation · Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Research interest
Research interests include Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry, Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging.
Virtual 4DCT generated from 4DMRI in gated particle therapy: phantom validation and application to lung cancer patients.
Impact of secondary particles on the magnetic field generated by a proton pencil beam: a finite-element analysis based on Geant4-DNA simulations.
<i>In-vivo</i> range verification analysis with in-beam PET data for patients treated with proton therapy at CNAO.
Localization of anatomical changes in patients during proton therapy with in-beam PET monitoring: A voxel-based morphometry approach exploiting Monte Carlo simulations.
Investigating the use of virtual 4DCT from 4DMRI in gated carbon ion radiation therapy of abdominal tumors.
MRI and FUNDUS image fusion for improved ocular biometry in Ocular Proton Therapy.
Time-resolved MRI for off-line treatment robustness evaluation in carbon-ion radiotherapy of pancreatic cancer.
Dosimetric impact of geometric distortions in an MRI-only proton therapy workflow for lung, liver and pancreas.
Role of diffusion-weighted MRI in recurrent rectal cancer treated with carbon ion radiotherapy.
Integrating Biological and Radiological Data in a Structured Repository: a Data Model Applied to the COSMOS Case Study.
Radiomics and Dosiomics for Predicting Local Control after Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy in Skull-Base Chordoma.
Porcine lung phantom-based validation of estimated 4D-MRI using orthogonal cine imaging for low-field MR-Linacs.
Image-based shading correction for narrow-FOV truncated pelvic CBCT with deep convolutional neural networks and transfer learning.
Potential and pitfalls of 1.5T MRI imaging for target volume definition in ocular proton therapy.
Improving the characterization of meningioma microstructure in proton therapy from conventional apparent diffusion coefficient measurements using Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion MRI.
Investigating DWI changes in white matter of meningioma patients treated with proton therapy.
Monitoring Carbon Ion Beams Transverse Position Detecting Charged Secondary Fragments: Results From Patient Treatment Performed at CNAO.
Is age rating enough to investigate changes in breathing motion pattern associated with aging of physically active women?
Intravoxel incoherent motion as a tool to detect early microstructural changes in meningiomas treated with proton therapy.
Dosimetric Impact of Inter-Fraction Anatomical Changes in Carbon Ion Boost Treatment for High-Risk Prostate Cancer (AIRC IG 14300).
Is age rating enough to investigate changes in breathing motion pattern associated with aging of physically active women?
A segmentation tool for pulmonary nodules in lung cancer screening: Testing and clinical usage.
Convolutional Neural Networks Cascade for Automatic Pupil and Iris Detection in Ocular Proton Therapy.
An MRI framework for respiratory motion modelling validation.
Development and validation of a new set-up simulator dedicated to ocular proton therapy at CNAO.
Non-invasive recognition of eye torsion through optical imaging of the iris pattern in ocular proton therapy.
Integration of spatial distortion effects in a 4D computational phantom for simulation studies in extra-cranial MRI-guided radiation therapy: Initial results.
Analysis of tumour microstructure estimation from conventional diffusion MRI and application to skull-base chordoma<sup/>.
Potential role of functional imaging in predicting outcome for patients treated with carbon ion therapy: a review.
Dosimetric effect of variable rectum and sigmoid colon filling during carbon ion radiotherapy to sacral chordoma.