| Research Areas: |
- Investigation into the response of tumour cell lines to non-uniform versus uniform irradiation
[M.Ebert, N. Suchowerska, M.Zhang, M.Jackson (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital NSW].
Examining how cells respond to dose gradients as occur in radiotherapy. Cells are irradiated with wedged dose distributions with cell regions separated by physical barriers or unseparated. The unseparated cells have been found to respond to the mean dose rather than local dose, while the separated cells show a response to the local dose
- Development of a digital treatment plan submission and review systems for QA and data analysis of radiotherapy clinical trials
[M.Ebert, D.J.Joseph (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA) A.Haworth (SCGH WA) C.Hamilton (NMMH), D.Cornes (TROG), B.Hooton (SCGH WA)]. Development of software for quality assurance of clinical trials including the RADAR study as well as for teaching, training, and comparison of radiotherapy planning systems. The SWAN software accepts and displays RTOG dose distribution format, and can save different contour sets.
- Intensity Modulated Brachytherapy (IMBT)
[M.Ebert]. Development of methods for delivering IMBT. Rotating anisotropic sources allow intensity modulation of the brachytherapy treatment. This could reduce dose to normal tissues such as the urethra during prostate brachytherapy, and the rectum in cervix therapy.
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| Research Grants: |
- Margaret Mitchell Grants, Newcastle Mater Hospital, “Verification of the accuracy of intensity modulated radiotherapy dose delivery with a flat-panel imager”, P.Greer, M.Ebert, P.Cadman, 2006, $10,000 (Chief Investigator).
- CCRR Project Grant, Newcastle Mater Hospital, “High precision MRI-based prostate radiotherapy”, P.Greer, M.A.Ebert, P.Ostwald, S.Oersulin, 2006, $64,280 (Chief Investigator).
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, Infrastructure Support Grant, “Digital imaging research infrastructure support”, C.Wratten, M.A.Ebert, 2005 - $3,500 (Chief Investigator).
- Cancer Institute NSW, Infrastructure Grant, “New South Wales centre for research into quality of radiation therapy delivery”, M.Ebert, C.Wratten, K.Harrison, D.Cornes, H.Warren-Forward, P.Greer, 2005 - $102,454 (Chief Investigator).
- Cure Cancer Australia Foundation, “ Image-based in vivo patient and organ localisation in external beam radiotherapy”, P.Greer, S.Ourselin, M.Ebert, 2004/2005 - $58,500 AUD (Chief Investigator).
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, “Production of diagnostic-quality X-rays from a megavoltage radiotherapy beam”, M.A.Ebert and P.Greer, 2004/2005 - $17,000 AUD (Chief Investigator).
- Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Health Technology Evaluation, “National Level III Dosimetry Lead-In Project”, C.S.Hamilton and M.A.Ebert, 2004/2005 - $58,038 AUD (Chief Investigator).
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