Prof. Dr. Jan J. Wilkens
Academic Career and Research Areas
Professor Wilkens (b. 1974) conducts research in the field of medical physics focusing primarily on the radiation therapy of cancer patients. A major focus is the optimization of treatment planning for protons and ion beam. Other research interests include physical and radiobiological models to describe the effect of radiation in the patient and the implementation of modern, image-based techniques in tumor therapy.
Professor Wilkens studied physics at LMU Munich and in Nottingham (UK) and completed his PhD in 2004 in Heidelberg. Subsequently, he worked as a member of the research staff at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and for a period of time held a postdoctoral research position at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (USA). In 2008 he was appointed to a position at TUM’s Klinikum rechts der Isar with research interests in the field of "Advanced Technologies in Radiation Therapy". Since 2012 he has headed the Medical Physics Unit within the Department of Radiation Therapy.
Key Publications (all publications)
Sommer LB, Kampfer S, Chemnitz T, Breitkreutz H, Combs SE, Wilkens JJ: “Pencil beam kernel-based dose calculations on CT data for a mixed neutron-gamma fission field applying tissue correction factors”. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2024; 69 (5): 045022.
AbstractVerhaegen F, Butterworth KT, Chalmers AJ, Coppes RP, de Ruysscher D, Dobiasch S, Fenwick JD, Granton PV, Heijmans SHJ, Hill MA, Koumenis C, Lauber K, Marples B, Parodi K, Persoon LCGG, Staut N, Subiel A, Vaes RDW, van Hoof S, Verginadis IL, Wilkens JJ, Williams KJ, Wilson GD, Dubois LJ: “Roadmap for precision preclinical x-ray radiation studies”. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2023; 68 (6): 06RM01.
AbstractDuda MA, Grad A, Kampfer S, Dobiasch S, Combs SE, Wilkens JJ: “Dual Energy CT for a Small Animal Radiation Research Platform Using an Empirical Dual Energy Calibration”. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2022; 67 (13): 135009.
AbstractBurkhardt R, Gora T, Fingerle AA, Sauter AP, Meurer F, Gassert FT, Dobiasch S, Schilling D, Feuchtinger A, Walch AK, Multhoff G, Herzen J, Noël PB, Rummeny EJ, Combs SE, Schmid TE, Pfeiffer F, Wilkens JJ: “In-vivo X-Ray Dark-Field Computed Tomography for the Detection of Radiation-Induced Lung Damage in Mice”. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology. 2021; 20: 11-16.
AbstractBin J, Allinger K, Assmann W, Dollinger G, Drexler GA, Friedl AA, Habs D, Hilz P, Hoerlein R, Humble N, Karsch S, Khrennikov K, Kiefer D, Krausz F, Ma W, Michalski D, Molls M, Raith S, Reinhardt S, Röper B, Schmid TE, Tajima T, Wenz J, Zlobinskaya O, Schreiber J and Wilkens JJ: "A laser-driven nanosecond proton source for radiobiological studies". Applied Physics Letters. 2012; 101: 243701.
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