# Uwe Oelfke

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## TL;DR

Uwe Oelfke is the radiotherapy physicist behind the Marsden's pioneering MR-linac programme.

## Summary

Uwe Oelfke is Head of the Joint Department of Physics at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden. His specialisms are radiotherapy physics, MR-guided radiotherapy and adaptive radiotherapy. He is the physicist behind the Marsden's pioneering MR-linac programme, and his department delivered some of the first MR-linac treatments while developing adaptive and biology-guided radiotherapy. His Clinical Oncology paper described magnetic resonance guided radiotherapy with the MR-Linac. His publications are listed on PubMed.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Role: Head of Joint Department of Physics, ICR and Royal Marsden
- Specialisms: Radiotherapy physics; MR-guided radiotherapy; Adaptive radiotherapy

## Sources

- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Oelfke%20U%5BAuthor%5D%20MR-linac

## Connected records

- technologies: [IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam)](https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/), [MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/mr-linac/)
- institutions: [European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology](https://onco.cc/institutions/estro/), [The Institute of Cancer Research](https://onco.cc/institutions/icr-london/), [The Royal Marsden](https://onco.cc/institutions/royal-marsden/)
- journals: [Clinical oncology](https://onco.cc/journals/clinical-oncology-rcr/)
- ideas: [Core-funded radiotherapy trials infrastructure with central quality assurance](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-radiotherapy-trials-infrastructure/)

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