Research Interests

• Nuclear Oncology and Molecular Imaging

• molecular medical imaging focuses on specific visualization of (patho) physiological processes through the application of imaging agents in multiple clinical modalities. Molecular imaging offers the unique opportunity to allow for earlier diagnosis and staging of tumors, to contribute to the selection and delineation of the optimal target volumes before and during (ie, adaptive treatment) radiotherapy and to a lesser extent before surgery, to monitor the response early on during the treatment or after its completion, and to help in the early detection of recurrence, which may bridge radiobiological concepts such as tumor hypoxia, tumor proliferation, tumor stem cell density, and tumor radiosensitivity by integrating tumor biological heterogeneity into the treatment planning equation.