Michael Lerch

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
286 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Lerch is a scholar working on Radiation, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Lerch has authored 286 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 215 papers in Radiation, 173 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 92 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Michael Lerch's work include Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (160 papers), Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (159 papers) and Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (93 papers). Michael Lerch is often cited by papers focused on Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (160 papers), Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (159 papers) and Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (93 papers). Michael Lerch collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and France. Michael Lerch's co-authors include Anatoly Rosenfeld, Marco Petasecca, Susanna Guatelli, Stéphanie Corde, Vladimir L. Perevertaylo, Moeava Tehei, Konstantin Konstantinov, Dean Cutajar, Elke Bräuer‐Krisch and Peter Metcalfe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Michael Lerch

270 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Ultra‐high dose rate dosimetry: Challenges and opportunities for FLASH radiation therapy

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Lerch	2.8k	2.5k	1.2k	897	610	286	4.2k
Susanna Guatelli	2.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	949 0.8×	821 0.9×	276 0.5×	234	4.0k
Dimitris Emfietzoglou	1.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	955 0.8×	802 0.9×	367 0.6×	141	4.5k
Jan Schuemann	2.3k 0.8×	2.9k 1.1×	980 0.8×	437 0.5×	342 0.6×	121	3.3k
Giuseppe Schettino	1.4k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	200 0.2×	737 1.2×	104	3.8k
Takeji Sakae	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	851 0.7×	342 0.4×	179 0.3×	237	3.0k
Jan J. Wilkens	2.4k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	370 0.4×	353 0.6×	146	3.7k
B. G. Fallone	3.3k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	3.1k 2.5×	284 0.3×	822 1.3×	264	4.8k
Claude Bailat	3.6k 1.3×	3.6k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	644 0.7×	168 0.3×	117	4.8k
F. J. Currell	1.4k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	722 0.6×	363 0.4×	905 1.5×	141	4.2k
J Polf	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	452 0.4×	218 0.2×	282 0.5×	75	2.3k

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Engels, E., Helen B. Forrester, Verdiana Trappetti, et al.. (2025). Is Ultrahigh Dose Rate Critical for the Effectiveness of Microbeam Radiation Therapy in a Broad-Beam Combined Treatment?. Advances in Radiation Oncology. 11(2). 101949–101949.

Bolst, David, Matthew D. Cameron, Stéphanie Corde, et al.. (2025). Comparison of Deep Learning Models for fast and accurate dose map prediction in Microbeam Radiation Therapy. Physica Medica. 136. 105012–105012.

Engels, E., et al.. (2025). Fast and Fractionated: Correlation of Dose Attenuation and the Response of Human Cancer Cells in a New Anthropomorphic Brain Phantom. Biomimetics. 10(7). 440–440. 2 indexed citations

Engels, E., Tessa Charles, Duncan Butler, et al.. (2025). Establishing Linearity of the MOSkin Detector for Ultra-High Dose-per-Pulse, Very-High-Energy Electron Radiotherapy Using Dose-Rate-Corrected EBT-XD Film. Applied Sciences. 15(14). 8101–8101.

Davis, Jeremy, Dean Cutajar, Enbang Li, et al.. (2025). Playing Hard with Si: Challenges and Opportunities for New Materials in Radiation Therapy Dosimetry. Advanced Materials. 37(36). e2508478–e2508478. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Jung Ho, et al.. (2025). Quantum-Dot Ceramic Composites for Oxidative Stress Mitigation under Broad-Spectrum Radiation Exposure. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(12). 18096–18107.

Engels, E., Matthew Cameron, Sam Long, et al.. (2025). A canine head phantom for quality assurance in multiport microbeam radiation therapy: animal phantom fabrication and dosimetry protocol. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. 11(5). 55033–55033. 1 indexed citations

Cutajar, Dean, Nicholas Hardcastle, Susanna Guatelli, et al.. (2024). Review on high spatial resolution dosimetry with pixelated semiconductor detectors for radiation therapy. Radiation Measurements. 177. 107272–107272. 3 indexed citations

Rosenfeld, Anatoly, et al.. (2024). Towards a customizable 3D printed heterogeneous radiotherapy phantom for treatment quality assurance: Fabrication, characterization, and dosimetry. AIP conference proceedings. 3210. 50001–50001. 2 indexed citations

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Cameron, Matthew, E. Engels, Moeava Tehei, et al.. (2023). DoseMRT: A Software Package for Individualised Monte Carlo Dose Calculations of Synchrotron-Generated Microbeam Radiation Therapy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 123–137. 5 indexed citations

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Engels, E., Jeremy Davis, Matthew Cameron, et al.. (2023). Modulating Synchrotron Microbeam Radiation Therapy Doses for Preclinical Brain Cancer. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 183–202. 2 indexed citations

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Breslin, Thomas, E. Engels, Stefan Fiedler, et al.. (2023). A Novel Anthropomorphic Phantom Composed of Tissue-Equivalent Materials for Use in Experimental Radiotherapy: Design, Dosimetry and Biological Pilot Study. Biomimetics. 8(2). 230–230. 10 indexed citations

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Sluyter, Ronald, et al.. (2023). Y2O3 nanoparticles with 2D morphology as reactive oxygen species scavengers under ultraviolet radiation conditions. Materials Letters. 346. 134523–134523. 5 indexed citations

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Cutajar, Dean, Mitra Safavi‐Naeini, S. George, et al.. (2019). BrachyView: initial preclinical results for a real-time in-body HDR PBT source tracking system with simultaneous TRUS image fusion. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 64(8). 85002–85002. 1 indexed citations

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Bakand, Shahnaz, Ronald Sluyter, Vítor Sencadas, et al.. (2019). Nano-sunscreens – a double-edged sword in protecting consumers from harm: viewing Australian regulatory policies through the lenses of the European Union. Critical Reviews in Toxicology. 49(2). 122–139. 15 indexed citations

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Bartzsch, Stefan, Stéphanie Corde, J. Crosbie, et al.. (2019). Technical advances in x-ray microbeam radiation therapy. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 65(2). 02TR01–02TR01. 43 indexed citations

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Tehei, Moeava, et al.. (2018). TiO₂/(BiO)₂CO₃ nanocomposites for ultraviolet filtration with reduced photocatalytic activity. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 6(21). 5639–5650. 14 indexed citations

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Guatelli, Susanna, Dean Cutajar, I. Cornelius, et al.. (2017). A convenient verification method of the entrance photo-neutron dose for an 18 MV medical linac using silicon p-i-n diodes. Radiation Measurements. 106. 391–398. 7 indexed citations

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Rosenfeld, Anatoly, et al.. (2008). A Dual Scintillator - Dual Silicon Photodiode Detector Module for Intraoperative Gamma\Beta Probe and Portable Anti-Compton Spectrometer. Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology. 45(sup5). 458–461.

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Deng, Xiaowu, Shaomin Huang, Li Zhang, et al.. (2008). In vivo verification of superficial dose for head and neck treatments using intensity‐modulated techniques. Medical Physics. 36(1). 59–70. 54 indexed citations

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