Abstract:

Radiotherapy is a highly effective and widespread treatment for cancer, which an estimated 25% of the UK population will receive at some point in their lives. Nowadays X-ray imaging plays a crucial role in radiotherapy for the planning, adaptation and delivery of a precise treatment, but the image quality of the devices used has been lacking. During my PhD in IDCOM from 2014-2018, we developed algorithms for closing this technology gap, to unlock more complex and beneficial treatments by improving the image quality of the X-ray CT systems. Industry took a keen interest in our work, and I have been working at Elekta, a leading radiotherapy device manufacturer, since 2020, where we have directly translated work from our research at IDCOM into a product and have realised the benefits we envisioned. In this talk, I will share this journey and the things I have learnt about industrial research, IP and product development.

Biography:

Jonathan received MEng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London and ETH Zurich in 2014, before a PhD in Edinburgh with Profs. Mike Davies and Bill Nailon at IDCOM and the Edinburgh Cancer Centre. He now works as senior scientist at Elekta, where he continues doing research into improving its X-ray imaging technology for radiotherapy.