Professor
Catherine Coolens
Medical Physicist
MSc, PhD, FIPEM, FAAPM
Location
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre - University Health Network
Address
610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5G 2M9
Clinical Interests
Stereotactic radiosurgery, Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers, Biologically guided Radiotherapy, Inverse planning optimization, Quantification of respiratory-induced organ motion and deformation, Functional imaging to model tumour vascularity and microenvironment to monitor radiation treatment response, Drug delivery
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Qualification
- MSc, Physics, Ghent University, Belgium
- MSc, Radiation Physics, University College London, UK
- PhD, Medical Physics, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
- Certification, Medical Physics, Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
Research Synopsis
- Characterization of a novel 320-slice CT scanner for simulation and functional imaging in radiation oncology
- Development of 4D perfusion methodology for imaging of tumour micro-vascularity and radiation response
- Phantom development for contrast-enhanced CT and MR imaging
- Biological modeling of normal tissue response
Appointments
- Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
- Radiation Physicist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network