Hui Khee Looe, a doctoral candidate in the Medical Radiation Physics research group at the University of Oldenburg, has been awarded the PTW Dosimetry Prize at the tri-national conference of the German (DGMP), Austrian and Swiss Societies for Medical Physics in Vienna (Austria). The DGMP is thereby recognising a paper by Looe published in the internationally renowned journal *Physics in Medicine and Biology*. The professional society awards the prize annually for outstanding work by an early-career researcher in dosimetry, a specialist field of medical physics that deals with the measurement of radiation doses in radiation physics. Back in 2009, the internationally advertised Dosimetry Prize was awarded to a doctoral candidate from the Oldenburg research group.
“The prize once again confirms the work of the Oldenburg research group in the field of dosimetry and the outstanding achievements of our students on the Engineering Physics Programme,” emphasises medical physicist Prof. Dr Björn Poppe, who heads the research group and is supervising Looe’s PhD. The early-career researcher is working on the development of signal and image processing methods with a view to applying them to dose measurements in water and, ultimately, in the human body. His aim is to contribute to a more precise determination of the distribution of radiation dose within the body and, thereby, to improve the accuracy of radiation therapy.
Looe was born in Malaysia in 1981, came to Germany in 2000 and studied Engineering Physics at the Institute of Physics at the University of Oldenburg until 2006. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis in the field of medical radiation physics in co-operation with Pius Hospital Oldenburg.