Marta Bogowicz
Papers
2
Total Citations
8
H-Index
2
About
Marta Bogowicz is a researcher in medical physics and radiation oncology, with a focus on precision radiotherapy and intrafractional motion management. Her work addresses a critical challenge in cancer treatment: the uncertainty caused by patient movement during radiotherapy sessions. Bogowicz has investigated couch-tracking, an innovative technique where the treatment couch moves in real-time to compensate for tumor motion, offering an alternative to conventional target volume expansion. Her key contributions include studies on the physiological and unconscious responses of healthy volunteers to dynamic, respiration-synchronized couch motion, as well as the characterization of body motion during such tracking. These investigations are vital for ensuring that couch-tracking does not introduce additional patient discomfort or involuntary reactions that could compromise treatment accuracy. While her most-cited papers have garnered modest citation counts (5 and 3 respectively), they represent foundational work in a niche and technically demanding area. Bogowicz’s research is notable for its focus on human factors and real-time motion compensation, bridging engineering and patient care to improve the precision and safety of radiotherapy.
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Top Papers
- 1Body motion during dynamic couch tracking with healthy volunteers5 citations · 2018
- 2