Team
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
Chevaro Guman
MSc Student
SPECT-guided radiotherapy
Former team members
- Paola Paradas Sanchez — MSc student: Motion Correction for CBCT Imaging in the Intervention and Operation Room using gate‑less model‑based reconstruction of non‑rigid motion and images
- 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
Visiting scientists
- Santiago Jiménez Serrano — CSIC UPV i3M, Valencia
- Usama Jameel — University of Pisa