Carsten Brink PhD, MSc

Carsten Brink holds MSc in physics and was awarded his Ph.D. in physics from Aarhus University in Denmark in 1996. He was first a research assistant at Aarhus University before becoming a medical physicist at the Laboratory of Radiation Physics, Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital. Currently, Carsten Brink is a professor in Radiation Physics at the University of Southern Denmark, SDU. He also holds a Diploma degree in Economy, Management, and Organisation within the Health Sector (2006). The research group headed by Carsten Brink has a strong focus on extracting biological information from medical images such as PET, CT, and CBCT images and more lately also MR images; part of this work has been related to ways to improve image quality in particular of CBCT images. Also, tumor control and toxicity modeling based on prospective and retrospective data and full 3D dose distributions have been active research fields for a long time. Carsten Brink also has a strong interest in statistics and has been the senior person in many statistical analyses and power calculations for clinical trials. Lately, the research group has used a lot of resources in preparation for the Elekta Unity MR linac to go live. The hope is that the use of daily MR images could be a major source of biological image information with the potential to predict the patient individual toxicity profile during RT, such that the treatment can be adapted accordingly. Carsten Brink has been co-author of 85 peer-reviewed articles.