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Anne Richter is a leading figure in the field of medical physics, specializing in advanced radiotherapy techniques for treating moving tumors. Her research focuses on the critical challenge of intrafractional tumor motion—the movement of a tumor during a treatment session—and developing innovative solutions for real-time motion compensation. Richter’s most impactful work includes the development and testing of an adaptive tumor tracking system (ATTS), which uses a robotic HexaPOD treatment couch to continuously track and compensate for tumor motion without requiring implanted fiducial markers. This breakthrough, detailed in her highly cited 2008 paper (102 citations), leverages the therapeutic megavoltage beam for tracking, significantly improving treatment precision. Her foundational 2007 study on the positioning accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography combined with the HexaPOD robot (137 citations) established the technical basis for these advancements. Richter has also contributed to understanding patient breathing patterns during continuous table motion and has performed dosimetric evaluations of tumor motion using robot-driven phantoms. Her work is essential for advancing stereotactic body radiotherapy and ensuring accurate dose delivery in the presence of respiratory motion, directly impacting patient outcomes in cancer treatment.