PhD Position

This vacancy is part of the MEGAHERTZ (MRI-Enhanced and Guided Adaptive HEart RadioTherapy) project, which is funded by NWO and co-funded by industrial partners through the open technology programme. The aim of MEGAHERTZ is to combine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy to dramatically improve cardiac radiotherapy. You will first develop MRI sequences for the MR-linac for a range of cardiac imaging applications including visualisation and quantification of the cardiorespiratory motion and quantitative mapping of tissue properties (i.e., parametric mapping). You will then test all newly developed sequences in novel phantoms, volunteers, and patients.

You will be working at the internationally renowned Center for Image Sciences at the UMC Utrecht, within the Radiotherapy department. In this project, you will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of image scientists, computer scientists, (medical) physicists, radiologists, and radiation oncologists.