Anna Sarnelli

Anna Sarnelli is the Head of Medical Physics Unit at Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (I.R.S.T.).

She got a PhD in Medical Physics from the Ferrara University (Italy) in 2004, with a thesis on Dual Energy technique in mammography and angiography, in collaboration with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble (France).

She joined the Medical Physicist Unit at IRST in 2009, were she mainly focused on patient dosimetry and treatment optimization, both with external beam radiotherapy and peptide radionuclide therapy. Among the main interests, she is involved in the radiobiological modeling of the tumour response and organ at risks toxicity after the hypofractionated radiotherapy and the nuclear medicine therapy employing different radioisotopes (beta and alpha particles). She is also involved in preclinical study on spheroids and mono-layer cell culture to study the effects of hypofractionation.