Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Schweikard

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Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, Raum 94

Email: achim.schweikard(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 31015232

Short Biography

Achim Schweikard studied Mathematics at Hamburg University and University of Paris XI.
He obtained his PhD from Technical University of Berlin in 1989.
After that he worked as a research associate at the department of computer science at
Stanford university, within a joint appointment between Stanford's departments of
neurosurgery and computer science. In 1994 he joined Technical University of Munich
(TU Munich) as an Associate Professor. In 2002 he joined Luebeck University as a
Full Professor. He is the inventor of numerous technologies in medical robotics. His
invention of correlation-based tracking for cancer radiosurgery has started to become
the standard of care in cancer radiosurgery. A very large number of cancer patients
worldwide has now been treated with this new highly accurate method. His research areas
of interest include medical robotics and artificial intelligence methods.

Memberships

  • Programm Committee: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie - Jahrestagung 2011
  • Programm Committee: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie - Jahrestagung 2010
  • Programm Committee: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie - Jahrestagung 2009
  • Programm Committee: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie - Jahrestagung 2008
  • Programm Committee: AAPM Annual Meeting and Technical Exhibit in Houston, TX, July 27 - July 31, 2008
  • Program Committee: CARS 2012 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: CARS 2009 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: CARS 2008 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: CARS 2007 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: CARS 2006 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: MICCAI 2007 Medical Image Computation and Computer-Aided Intervention (2007)
  • Executive Committee: Computer-Aided Radiology (2005)
  • Chairman: Jahrestagung Computer und Roboter-unterstützte Chirurgie (2004)
  • President: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboter-unterstützte Chirurgie (2003-04)
  • Past-President: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboter-unterstützte Chirurgie (2004-2005)
  • Coordinator: Schwerpunktprogramm 1124 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2006)
  • Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2005)
  • Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2004)
  • Program Committee: 2nd Workshop for Medical Robotics, Navigation und Visualisation (MRNV), March 2007
  • Program Committee: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2012
  • Program Committee: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2011
  • Member of Editorial Board: Computer Aided Surgery
  • Member of Editorial Board: Int. Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
  • Member of Editorial Board: Int. Journal of Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Member of Editorial Board: International Scholarly Research Network (ISRN) Robotics
  • Member of Editorial Board: Journal of Computational Medicine
  • Member of Editorial Board: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
  • Gradschool UNI Luebeck: Academic Director

2006

Lukas Ramrath, H. Fuellgraf, C. Winter, Ulrich G. Hofmann, Gereon Hüttmann, Andreas Moser, and Achim Schweikard,
3D Visualization and Identification of Rat Brain Structures using Optical Coherence Tomography, Hannover , 2006.
Pantaleo Romanelli, Achim Schweikard, Alexander Schlaefer, and John R. Adler Jr.,
Computer aided robotic radiosurgery, Computer Aided Surgery , vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 161-174, 2006.
DOI:10.1080/10929080600886393
File: 10929080600886393
Christoph Bodensteiner, Lars Matthäus, Norbert Binder, Rainer Burgkart, and Achim Schweikard,
Vascular tree reconstruction with discrete tomography - a practical approach, Hannover , 2006.
Kajetan Berlinger, Michael Roth, Otto Sauer, Lucia Vences, and Achim Schweikard,
Fully automatic detection of corresponding anatomical landmarks in volume scans of different respiratory state., Medical Physics , vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1569-1572, 2006.
Oliver Blanck, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
3D visualization of radiosurgical treatment plans - experience with Java3D and VTK, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. pp. 101-106.
ISBN:978-0415-43349-5
Achim Schweikard, and John R. Adler Jr.,
New Technologies in Radiation Oncology, Schlegel, Wolfgang C. and Bortfeld, Thomas and Grosu, A.-L., Eds. Springer, 2006, pp. 337-343.
DOI:10.1007/3-540-29999-8_26
File: 3-540-29999-8_26
Alexander Schlaefer, Oliver Blanck, Hiroya Shiomi, and Achim Schweikard,
Radiosurgery: identification of efficient treatment beams guided by autostereoscopic visualization, GMS CURAC , vol. 1, 2006.
File: curac000014.shtml
Achim Schweikard,
Robotic Radiosurgery: The Kindest Cut of All, 2006. The Institution of Engineering and Technology Seminar on (Ref. No. 2006/11372), 2006. pp. 73-92.
Alexander Schlaefer, Sonja Dieterich, and Achim Schweikard,
Incorporating interfractional motion in the treatment planning for motion compensated radiosurgery, GMS CURAC , vol. 1, 2006.
File: curac000016.shtml
Stefan Schlichting, Volker Martens, Norman Rzezovski, Achim Schweikard, and Hans-Peter Bruch,
First results of accuracy of virtual liver cut classification for automatic landmark extraction, 2006.
Achim Schweikard, Alexander Schlaefer, and John R. Adler Jr.,
Resampling: An optimization method for inverse planning in robotic radiosurgery, Medical Physics , vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 4005-4011, 2006.
DOI:10.1118/1.2357020
File: 1.2357020
Achim Schweikard,
Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Abbildungseigenschaften einer Röntgendiagnostikeinrichtung mit einem C-Bogen, 2006.

2005

Markus Kleemann, Philipp Hildebrand, Lars Matthäus, Achim Schweikard, M. Birth, and Hans-Peter Bruch,
Navigation in der Viszeralchirurgie, Berlin , 2005.
Lars Matthäus, Alf Giese, Daniel Wertheimer, and Achim Schweikard,
Brainmapping With TMS Using A Robot Based Protocol And Image Registration Techniques, Berlin: VDI-Verlag, 2005. pp. 23.
Lars Matthäus, Alf Giese, Daniel Wertheimer, and Achim Schweikard,
Planning and Analyzing Robotized TMS Using Virtual Reality: Accelerating Change in Healthcare: Next Medical Toolkit, IOS Press, 2005. pp. 373-8.
Alexander Muacevic, Berndt Wowra, and Achim Schweikard,
Cyberknife Radiochirurgie, Medizintechnik in Bayern , pp. 32-36, 2005.
Rainer Burgkart, Heiko Gottschling, Michael Roth, Reiner Gradinger, and Achim Schweikard,
Fluoroscopy-based 3D-navigation of complex correction osteotomies at the proximal femur, Der Orthop , vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 1137-1143, 2005.
DOI:10.1007/s00132-005-0859-9
File: s00132-005-0859-9
Norbert Binder, Lars Matthäus, Rainer Burgkart, and Achim Schweikard,
A Robotic C-arm Fluoroscope, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 108-116, 2005.
DOI:10.1002/rcs.34
File: rcs.34
Achim Schweikard, and John R. Adler Jr.,
Predictive Compensation of Breathing Motion in Lung Cancer Radiosurgery, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2005.
ISBN:3-540-00321-5
Kajetan Berlinger, Otto Sauer, Lucia Vences, Michael Roth, M. Dötter, and Achim Schweikard,
Computed 4D patient models for motion compensation in radiotherapy, Seattle, WA, USA , 2005. pp. 1922.
DOI:10.1118/1.1997558
File: 1.1997558
Alexander Schlaefer, Oliver Blanck, Hiroya Shiomi, and Achim Schweikard,
Radiochirurgie: Identifizierung effizienter Behandlungsstrahlen mittels autostereoskopischer Visualisierung, Berlin , 2005.
Kajetan Berlinger, Michael Roth, Otto Sauer, Lucia Vences, and Achim Schweikard,
Motion compensation in radiotherapy using advanced volumetric deformation models, Berlin , 2005.
Alexander Schlaefer, Oliver Blanck, and Achim Schweikard,
Autostereoscopic Display of the 3D Dose Distribution to Assess Beam Placement for Robotic Radiosurgery, Medical Physics , vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 2122-2122, 2005.
DOI:10.1118/1.1998500
File: 1.1998500
Alexander Schlaefer, Oliver Blanck, and Achim Schweikard,
3D dose visualization for evaluation of radiosurgical treatment plans, 2005.
Alexander Schlaefer, J. Fisseler, Sonja Dieterich, Hiroya Shiomi, K. Cleary, and Achim Schweikard,
Feasibility of four-dimensional conformal planning for robotic radiosurgery., Medical Physics , vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 3786-3792, 2005.
DOI:10.1118/1.2122607
File: 1.2122607