Dr Maria Perez-Lara
About me
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a member of the MaThRad project. My research interests are focused on radiation physics applied to medicine using Monte Carlo methods. I am interested in alternative forms of radiotherapy using protons and neutrons.
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Education
- B.Sc. Physics, Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia), 2019.
- M.Sc. Physics and Engineering in Medicine, University College London (London, UK), 2020.
- Ph.D. Radiation Physics, University College London (London, UK), 2025.
Publications
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Study of Contrast-to-Noise Ratio performance of a Medipix3RX CdTe detector for low dose mammography imaging (with G. Roque, C. Avila, L. Mendoza & S. Procz). Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 992 (2021): 165000.
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First study of a HEXITEC detector for secondary particle characterisation during proton beam therapy (with J.C. Khong, M. Wilson, B. Cline and R. Moss). Applied Sciences, 13.13 (2023): 7735.