Hui Khee Looe, a doctoral candidate in the Medical Radiation Physics working group at the University of Oldenburg, has been honoured with the PTW Dosimetry Prize at the three-country conference of the German (DGMP), Austrian and Swiss Society for Medical Physics in Vienna (Austria). The DGMP honours a publication by Looe in the internationally renowned journal "Physics in Medicine and Biology". The professional society presents the award annually for outstanding work by a young scientist in dosimetry, a specialised field of medical physics that deals with the measurement of radiation doses in radiation physics. The international dosimetry prize was already awarded to a doctoral candidate from the Oldenburg working group in 2009.
"The prize once again confirms the work of the Oldenburg working group in the field of dosimetry and the outstanding performance of our students in the Engineering Physics programme," emphasises medical physicist Prof. Dr Björn Poppe, who heads the working group and is supervising Looe's doctorate. The young scientist is working on the development of signal and image processing methods that can be used to determine doses in water and ultimately in the human body. His aim is to contribute to a more precise determination of the distribution of the radiation dose in the body and thus improve the accuracy of radiotherapy.
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 the Pius Hospital Oldenburg.