Christian Sommer

ZHAW School of Engineering
SKS Testing and Engineering
Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 47 81
christian.sommer@zhaw.ch

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Schwerpunkt Sicherheitskritische Systeme (SKS) am Institut für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (IAMP).

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

Hardware in the Loop (HIL) Test System
Entwicklung und Testen von elektronischen Hardware-Komponenten
Gefährdungs- und Risikoanalysen (e.g. FMEDA) von Hardware
Bild- und Dosisoptimierung bei Computer Tomographie (CT)
Dosimetrie für ionisierende Strahlung (Messung und Monte Carlo-Simulationen)

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Ausbildung

Automechaniker (leichte Motorwagen) EFZ
AMA Winterthur
08 / 2002 - 08 / 2006

Weiterbildung

Bachelor of Science ZFH in Systemtechnik (Mechatronik)
Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
07 / 2014

Netzwerk

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6634-3933

Projekte

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

Stocker, D., Sommer, C., Gueng, S., Stäuble, J., Özden, I., Griessinger, J., Weyland, M. S., Lutters, G., & Scheidegger, S. (2024). Probabilistic U-Net model observer for the DDC method in CT scan protocol optimization. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 69(11). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad4302
Sommer, C., Özden, I., Weyland, M. S., Duran, C., Lutters, G., & Scheidegger, S. (2022). Feasibility of a method for low contrast CT image quality assessment using difference detail curves for abdominal scans. Zeitschrift Für Medizinische Physik, 32(2), 209–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2022.01.001
Pyka, M., Eschle, P., Sommer, C., Weyland, M. S., Kubik, R., & Scheidegger, S. (2018). Effect of thyroid shielding during mammography : measurements on phantom and patient as well as estimation with Monte Carlo simulation. European Radiology Experimental, 2(14). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-018-0042-9
Sommer, C., Icken, N., Özden, I., Lutters, G., & Scheidegger, S. (2017). Evaluation of low contrast resolution and radiation dose in abdominal CT protocols by a difference detail curve (DDC) method. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 3(2), 517–519. https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2017-0109
D’Isidoro, F., Eschle, P., Zumbrunn, T., Sommer, C., Scheidegger, S., & Ferguson, S. J. (2017). Determining 3D kinematics of the hip using video fluoroscopy : guidelines for balancing radiation dose and registration accuracy. Journal of Arthroplasty, 32(10), 3213–3218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2017.05.036

Weitere Publikationen

Sommer, C., Oezden, I., Lutters, G., Cornelius, A., & Scheidegger, S. (2015). Comparison of image quality and radiation exposure between dental volume tomography DVT and conventional CT by using a novel skull-DLP phantom. SSRMP Annual Scientific Meeting 2015 Fribourg, 21st and 22nd October 2015.

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

Karimipourfard, M., Stocker, D., Sommer, C., Sina, S., & Scheidegger, S. (2025, December 18). Identifying robust radiomic features in CT imaging for predicting object contrast variation. 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD). https://doi.org/10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57106.2025.11286456
Sommer, C., Özden, I., Weyland, M., Duran, C., Lutters, G., & Scheidegger, S. (2021, June 16). Using difference detail curves to assess image quality of low contrast abdominal CT scans. 3rd European Congress of Medical Physics (ECMP), Virtual, 16 June - 31 December 2021.
Oezden, I., Sommer, C., Lutters, G., & Scheidegger, S. (2015). The use of dose length product DLP, signal-to-noise ratio SNR and difference detail curve DDC for protocol characterization and optimization. Annual Scientific Meeting 2015, Schweizerische Gesellschaft Für Strahlenbiologie Und Medizinische Physik (SSRMP), Fribourg, 21-22 October 2015.

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