Christian Sommer

Christian Sommer
ZHAW
School of Engineering
SKS Testing and Engineering
Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position at the ZHAW
Research associate at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Physics on the Safety-Critical Systems Research Lab.
iamp.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/institute-zentren/iamp/forschung-und-entwicklung/biomedizin.html
Education and Continuing education
Expertise and research interests
- Development of a Hardware in the Loop (HIL) Test system
- Development and testing of electronic Systems / Hardware
- Failure modes, effects and diagnostic analysis (FMEDA) of Hardware
- Optimization of Dose and Image quality on computer tomography (CT)
- Dosimetry for ionizing radiation (measurement and Monte Carlo-simulations)
Educational background
2014 - Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering with Specialisation in Mechatronics UAS Zurich
2006 - Car Mechanic
Projects
- PHARAO: Phantom- and modelbased Optimization of Radiological Procedures / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
- Machine Protection and Autonomous Predictive Interlock System / Team member / Project ongoing
- OptiRad / Deputy project leader / Project completed
- Advanced Electronic Personal Dosemeter / Team member / Project completed
- Phantom- and Model-based Optimisation of Medical Imaging Modalities / Team member / Project completed
Publications
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Sommer, Christian; Özden, Ismail; Weyland, Mathias S.; Duran, Carolina; Lutters, Gerd; Scheidegger, Stephan,
2022.
Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik.
32(2), pp. 209-217.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2022.01.001
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Pyka, Miriam; Eschle, Patrik; Sommer, Christian; Weyland, Mathias S.; Kubik, Rahel; Scheidegger, Stephan,
2018.
European Radiology Experimental.
2(14).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-018-0042-9
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D'Isidoro, Fabio; Eschle, Patrik; Zumbrunn, Thomas; Sommer, Christian; Scheidegger, Stephan; Ferguson, Stephen J.,
2017.
Journal of Arthroplasty.
32(10), pp. 3213-3218.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2017.05.036
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Sommer, Christian; Icken, Niels; Özden, Ismail; Lutters, Gerd; Scheidegger, Stephan,
2017.
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering.
3(2), pp. 517-519.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2017-0109
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Sommer, Christian; Oezden, Ismail; Lutters, Gerd; Cornelius, Alexander; Scheidegger, Stephan,
2015.
In:
SSRMP Annual Scientific Meeting 2015 Fribourg, 21st and 22nd October 2015.
Annual Scientific Meeting 2015, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Strahlenbiologie und Medizinische Physik (SSRMP), Fribourg, 21-22 October 2015.
Fribourg:
Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics.
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Sommer, Christian; Özden, Ismail; Weyland, Mathias; Duran, Carolina; Lutters, Gerd; Scheidegger, Stephan,
2021.
Using difference detail curves to assess image quality of low contrast abdominal CT scans.
In:
3rd European Congress of Medical Physics (ECMP), virtual, 16 June - 31 December 2021.
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Oezden, Ismail; Sommer, Christian; Lutters, Gerd; Scheidegger, Stephan,
2015.
In:
Annual Scientific Meeting 2015, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Strahlenbiologie und Medizinische Physik (SSRMP), Fribourg, 21-22 October 2015.