Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Schweikard

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Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, Raum 97

Email: achim.schweikard(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 31015200
Fax: +49 451 31015204

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

2004

Otto Sauer, Kajetan Berlinger, Michael Roth, Lucia Vences, and Achim Schweikard,
Erstellung von Testdaten für 4D Patienten Modelle, München: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie, 2004.
File: www.medicstream.de
H. Hoerauf, J. Wollnack, H. Laqua, and Achim Schweikard,
Entwicklung einer mikrochirurgischen Technik zur intraoperativen Lyse bei retinalen Gefäßverschlüssen, München: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie, 2004.
File: www.medicstream.de
Alexander Schlaefer, Peter Kneschaurek, and Achim Schweikard,
Beam placement for robotic radiosurgery, Chicago, USA: Elsevier, 2004.

2003

Achim Schweikard, and M. Doetter,
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Bestimmung der Position des Fokuspunktes einer Röntgenstrahlenquelle, 2003.
Achim Schweikard,
Robotic fiducial-less tracking of respiratory motion in radiosurgery, Kyoto, Japan , 2003.
S. Burkhardt, Michael Roth, Achim Schweikard, and Rainer Burgkart,
Registrierung von präoperativen 3D-MRT-Daten mit intraoperativen 2D-Fluoroskopieaufnahmen zur Patientenlageerkennung, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2003, pp. 16-20.
Rainer Burgkart, C. Brossmann, M. Layer, E. Bartels, J. Dreer, Achim Schweikard, and Reiner Gradinger,
New method for an intuitive surgical planning system for 3d correction-osteotomies of bony deformations, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2003.
ISBN:978-1586033200
S. Burkhardt, Achim Schweikard, and Rainer Burgkart,
Numerical determination of the susceptibility caused geometric distortions in magnetic resonance imaging, Medical Image Analysis , vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 221-236, 2003.
DOI:10.1016/S1361-8415(02)00109-3
File: S1361-8415(02)00109-3
Achim Schweikard, Rainer Burgkart, and S. Burkhardt,
Bestimmung der Gradientenstärken von MR-Sequenzen mit Hilfe von Kalibrierkörpern, Erlangen , 2003.
S. Burkhardt, Michael Roth, Achim Schweikard, and Rainer Burgkart,
A new system for completely MR-based computer assisted orthopaedic surgery, International Congress Series 1256 , vol. 1256, pp. 1342, 2003.
Rainer Burgkart, Heiko Gottschling, Michael Roth, Achim Schweikard, and F. Regenfelder,
Intraoperative planning and computer assisted navigation of complex multi-planar correction osteotomies at the proximal femur using a standard c-arm fluoroscopy, Marbella, Spain , 2003.

2002

S. Burkhardt, Rainer Burgkart, M. Dötter, Michael Roth, and Achim Schweikard,
Korrektur von geometrischen Verzeichnungen bei MRI-Aufnahmen vom Femur., .... Springer Verlag, 2002.
E. Bartels, Michael Roth, and Achim Schweikard,
Roboterunterstützte Brachytherapiespickung, Leipzig , 2002.
D. Golias, Stefan Riesner, and Achim Schweikard,
Online-Verfolgung von Strukturen in Ultraschallbilder, Leipzig , 2002.
F. Schwarzer, and Achim Schweikard,
On the Complexity of One-Shot Translational Separability, Information Processing Letters , vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 187-194, 2002.
Matthias Hilbig, Robert Hanne, and Achim Schweikard,
MMRT-Inverse Planning based on Linear Programming, Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik , vol. 12, pp. 89-96, 2002.
Robert Hanne, Matthias Hilbig, and Achim Schweikard,
Lineare Optimierung in der Strahlentherapie, Leipzig , 2002.
Rainer Burgkart, Achim Schweikard, and S. Burkhardt,
Korrektur objektinduzierter geometrischer Verzeichnungen in Kernspinbildern, Leipzig , 2002.
Achim Schweikard, Hiroya Shiomi, M. Doetter, Michael Roth, Kajetan Berlinger, and John R. Adler Jr.,
"Fiducial-Less Compensation of Breathing Motion in Lung Cancer Radiosurgery" 2002.
F. Schwarzer, Leo Joskowicz, and Achim Schweikard,
"Efficient linear unboundedness testing: Algorithm and applications to assembly planning" Jerusalem, Israel, 2002.
M. Dötter, Michael Roth, and Achim Schweikard,
Dreidimensionale Navigation in der Orthopaedie ohne praeoperative tomographische Aufnahmen, Leipzig , 2002.
S. Burkhardt, Achim Schweikard, and Rainer Burgkart,
Determination and correction of the susceptibility induced geometric distortions in MRI, Grenoble , 2002.
Matthias Hilbig, Robert Hanne, Peter Kneschaurek, Frank Zimmermann, and Achim Schweikard,
Design of an inverse planning system for radiotherapy using linear optimization, Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik , vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 89-96, 2002.

2001

F. Schwarzer, and Achim Schweikard,
C-Space Defragmentation for General Translational Assembly Planning, 2001. pp. 1537-1542.
Rainer Burgkart, M. Dötter, Michael Roth, and Achim Schweikard,
CT-less three-dimensional fluoroscopic navigation for femur head surgery, Davos, CH , 2001. pp. 54.
DOI:10.1002/igs.1009
File: igs.1009