Benedikt Rudek, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Benedikt Rudek, PhD is Therapeutic Medical Physicist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the VA Medical Center, Boston, MA.
He received his PhD in Physics in 2012 from Heidelberg University, Germany as well as his MS in Physics from Frankfurt University, Germany, on research carried out at LBNL, Berkeley, and SLAC, Stanford, CA.
He completed his Post Doc in the Ionizing Radiation Division of Germany's National Metrology Institute, PTB. He went on to complete an additional Post Doc in Radiation Oncology at MGH and BU, Boston, MA, and received a medical physics certificate from Harvard Medical School, Boston.
He completed his residency in Medical Physics at New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, and is board certified in Medical Physics by the American Board of Radiology.
Dr. Rudek is a member in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and Radiosurgery Society.

Publications

  • Published 1/28/2022

    Tanyag RMP, Bacellar C, Pang W, Bernando C, Gomez LF, Jones CF, Ferguson KR, Kwok J, Anielski D, Belkacem A, Boll R, Bozek J, Carron S, Chen G, Delmas T, Englert L, Epp SW, Erk B, Foucar L, Hartmann R, Hexemer A, Huth M, Leone SR, Ma JH, Marchesini S, Neumark DM, Poon BK, Prell J, Rolles D, Rudek B, Rudenko A, Seifrid M, Swiggers M, Ullrich J, Weise F, Zwart P, Bostedt C, Gessner O, Vilesov AF. Sizes of pure and doped helium droplets from single shot x-ray imaging. J Chem Phys. 2022 Jan 28; 156(4):041102. PMID: 35105059.

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  • Published 1/9/2022

    Rudek B, Bernstein K, Osterman S, Qu T. Replacing gamma knife beam-profiles on film with point-detector scans. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2022 Mar; 23(3):e13522. PMID: 35001499.

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  • Published 8/27/2021

    Li X, Inhester L, Robatjazi SJ, Erk B, Boll R, Hanasaki K, Toyota K, Hao Y, Bomme C, Rudek B, Foucar L, Southworth SH, Lehmann CS, Kraessig B, Marchenko T, Simon M, Ueda K, Ferguson KR, Bucher M, Gorkhover T, Carron S, Alonso-Mori R, Koglin JE, Correa J, Williams GJ, Boutet S, Young L, Bostedt C, Son SK, Santra R, Rolles D, Rudenko A. Pulse Energy and Pulse Duration Effects in the Ionization and Fragmentation of Iodomethane by Ultraintense Hard X Rays. Phys Rev Lett. 2021 Aug 27; 127(9):093202. PMID: 34506178.

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  • Published 7/30/2021

    Rabus H, Li WB, Nettelbeck H, Schuemann J, Villagrasa C, Beuve M, Di Maria S, Heide B, Klapproth AP, Poignant F, Qiu R, Rudek B. Consistency checks of results from a Monte Carlo code intercomparison for emitted electron spectra and energy deposition around a single gold nanoparticle irradiated by X-rays. Radiat Meas. 2021 Sep; 147. PMID: 35669292.

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  • Published 3/23/2021

    Rabus H, Li WB, Villagrasa C, Schuemann J, Hepperle PA, de la Fuente Rosales L, Beuve M, Di Maria S, Klapproth AP, Li CY, Poignant F, Rudek B, Nettelbeck H. Intercomparison of Monte Carlo calculated dose enhancement ratios for gold nanoparticles irradiated by X-rays: Assessing the uncertainty and correct methodology for extended beams. Phys Med. 2021 Apr; 84:241-253. PMID: 33766478.

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Education

  • Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, PhD
  • Goethe University Frankfurt, MS
  • Goethe University Frankfurt, BS

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