_{Professor Klemens Zink (left), DGMP president, presents PTW Dosimetry Award 2009 to Ndimofor Chofor, M. Sc. (right)
(Photo: VDE)}

Freiburg. On September 11, 2009, Ndimofor Chofor, research assistant in the medical radiation physics team headed by Professor Björn Poppe at Oldenburg University, was honored with the PTW Dosimetry Award 2009 of the German Society of Medical Physics (DGMP). The award was officially presented at the annual meeting of the DGMP, held during the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Munich this year.

Mr Chofor received the award for his exemplary paper titled  "Mapping radiation quality inside photon-irradiated absorbers by means of a twin-chamber method". In his award-winning paper, Mr Chofor investigates the impact of low-energy scattered radiation on dose assessment during photon radiation. He introduces a new simple experimental method to analyze radiation fields which allows an assessment of low-energy scattered radiation.

Mr Chofor came to Oldenburg University in 2001 to study for a bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics, then enrolled in a two-year master's program to deepen his knowledge. After completing his studies in 2006, Mr Chofor joined the medical radiation physics team at Oldenburg University and Pius Hospital as a research assistant and radiation protection commissoner. He is currently working  towards his
Ph. D. under the direction of Prof. Björn Poppe in close cooperation with Pius Hospital Oldenburg.

We congratulate Mr Chofor on this well deserved recognition of his scientific achievements.

Learn more about Mr Chofor's research work:

• Interview with Ndimofor Chofor

Contact at University of Oldenburg:

Prof. Dr. Björn Poppe
Medical Radiation Physics
Phone +49 (0)441 798-3592 or 229-1625
bjoern.poppe[at]uni-oldenburg.de