Group

The molecular and motion imaging group

Meet the skilled and dedicated professionals who make up our team.

Casper Beijst

Medical physicist and scientist

Group leader

Rodrigo Jose Santo

PhD Student

PET motion correction

Thomas Olausson

PhD Student

MRI motion tracking

Maarten Terpstra

Postdoc

MRI motion tracking

Julius Everard

PhD Student

PET-guided radiotherapy

Ethan Waterink

PhD Student

CBCT and SPECT motion correction

Paola Paradas Sanchez

MSc Student

Interventional CBCT motion correction

Former team members

Jeffrey Neele – MSc student: An open-source scatter correction algorithm for quantitative Total-Body PET scanning for cancer patients

Daniel Versnel – MSc student: Evaluation of MRI-based bulk density synthetic CT in the pelvis region

Niek Huttinga – Postdoctoral Researcher: Time-resolved cardiac imaging and motion analysis using a multi-scale dynamics decomposition

Rein Lukkes – MSc student: ­­­­The merit of a dedicated cardiac PET detector in a full-ring system: a simulation study

Thomas Weststrate – MSc student: Towards Diffusion Weighted MR for Evaluation of Rectal Tumours on a MR-Linac

Stan Meinders – MSc student: Motion corrected abdominal PET/MRI using MR-based motion tracking

Inge van der Schagt – MSc student: Research into the feasibility of using MR-based vector fields for motion correction of PET images with the purpose of obviating anesthesia

Nina Bezem – BSc student: Detection of Lesions in Positron Emission Tomography