Projects per year
Personal profile
specialisation
Radiation Oncology
Research interests
- Automatic treatment planning
- Deep learning in radiation oncology
- Flash ultra-high dose rate radiotherapy planning
- kV fluoroscopy based Target tracking
- Adaptive radiotherapy
- Proton therapy optimization
Wilko Verbakel is Associate Professor at the Amsterdam UMC, and Principal Research Scientist at Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers Company. He graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology with a Master degrees in Technical Physics (1994) and in Design of Physics Instrumentation. After working some years as a nuclear physicist, he completed his PhD in 2003 on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy and became a staff medical physicist at the Amsterdam UMC in Amsterdam in 2004. Since 2023 he is Full-time principal research scientist at Varian Medical Systems.
Activities
- Full-time Principal Research Scientist at Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers Company
- Associate Professor at the Amsterdam UMC
- Chairman of the Dutch NGO ICFON for agricultural and rural village development in Nepal since 2011 and ICFON board member, supervising yearly several development projects, since 2001
External positions
chairman / board member, ICFON
1 Feb 2001 → …
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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BREAST-ART: Implementation of online adaptive radiotherapy for breast cancer patients on Ethos
Nelissen, K., van den Bongard, D., Verbakel, W., Rijksen, B. & van Vlaenderen, A.
7/06/2021 → 2/09/2024
Project: Research
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FAST-METS: Evaluation of Fast, Same-day Delivery of Palliative Radiotherapy Without a Planning CT
Nelissen, K., Senan, S., Verbakel, W. & Versteijne, E.
4/01/2021 → 1/01/2024
Project: Research
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Spine Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Without Immobilization: Detailed Analysis of Intrafraction Motion Using High-Frequency kV Imaging During Irradiation: Detailed Analysis of Intrafraction Motion Using High-Frequency kV Imaging During Irradiation
Remmerts de Vries, I. F., Dahele, M. R., Verbakel, W. F. A. R. & Slotman, B. J., 1 Feb 2024, In: International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. 118, 2, p. 525-532 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Deep learning-based markerless lung tumor tracking in stereotactic radiotherapy using Siamese networks
Grama, D., Dahele, M., van Rooij, W., Slotman, B., Gupta, D. K. & Verbakel, W. F. A. R., Nov 2023, In: Medical physics. 50, 11, p. 6881-6893 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (Scopus) -
Dose distribution prediction for head-and-neck cancer radiotherapy using a generative adversarial network: influence of input data
Gu, X., Strijbis, V. I. J., Slotman, B. J., Dahele, M. R. & Verbakel, W. F. A. R., 2023, In: Frontiers in Oncology. 13, 1251132.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Efficacy and safety of SBRT for spine metastases: A systematic review and meta-analysis for preparation of an ESTRO practice guideline
Guninski, R. S., Cuccia, F., Alongi, F., Andratschke, N., Belka, C., Bellut, D., Dahele, M., Josipovic, M., Kroese, T. E., Mancosu, P., Minniti, G., Niyazi, M., Ricardi, U., Munck af Rosenschold, P., Sahgal, A., Tsang, Y., Verbakel, W. F. A. R. & Guckenberger, M., 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Radiotherapy and oncology. 109969.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
ESTRO clinical practice guideline: Stereotactic body radiotherapy for spine metastases
Guckenberger, M., Andratschke, N., Belka, C., Bellut, D., Cuccia, F., Dahele, M., Guninski, R. S., Josipovic, M., Mancosu, P., Minniti, G., Niyazi, M., Ricardi, U., Munck af Rosenschold, P., Sahgal, A., Tsang, Y., Verbakel, W. F. A. R. & Alongi, F., 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Radiotherapy and oncology. 109966.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus)