Ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) radiotherapy: Silver bullet or fool's gold?

JD Wilson, EM Hammond, GS Higgins… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Radiotherapy is a cornerstone of both curative and palliative cancer care. However,
radiotherapy is severely limited by radiation-induced toxicities. If these toxicities could be …

A potential revolution in cancer treatment: A topical review of FLASH radiotherapy

Y Gao, R Liu, CW Chang, S Charyyev… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
FLASH radiotherapy (RT) is a novel technique in which the ultrahigh dose rate (UHDR)(≥
40 Gy/s) is delivered to the entire treatment volume. Recent outcomes of in vivo studies …

[HTML][HTML] Technical challenges for FLASH proton therapy

S Jolly, H Owen, M Schippers, C Welsch - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
There is growing interest in the radiotherapy community in the application of FLASH
radiotherapy, wherein the dose is delivered to the entire treatment volume in less than a …

The FLASH effect depends on oxygen concentration

G Adrian, E Konradsson, M Lempart… - The British journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objective: Recent in vivo results have shown prominent tissue sparing effect of radiotherapy
with ultra-high dose rates (FLASH) compared to conventional dose rates (CONV). Oxygen …

Faster and safer? FLASH ultra-high dose rate in radiotherapy

M Durante, E Bräuer-Krisch, M Hill - The British journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Recent results from the Franco-Swiss team of Institute Curie and Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire Vaudois demonstrate a remarkable sparing of normal tissue after irradiation at …

FLASH radiotherapy with carbon ion beams

UA Weber, E Scifoni, M Durante - Medical Physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
FLASH radiotherapy is considered a new potential breakthrough in cancer treatment. Ultra‐
high dose rates (> 40 Gy/s) have been shown to reduce toxicity in the normal tissue without …

Feasibility of proton FLASH effect tested by zebrafish embryo irradiation

E Beyreuther, M Brand, S Hans, K Hideghéty… - Radiotherapy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Motivated by first animal trials showing the normal tissue
protecting effect of electron and photon Flash irradiation, ie at mean dose rates of 100 Gy/s …

A quantitative analysis of the role of oxygen tension in FLASH radiation therapy

K Petersson, G Adrian, K Butterworth… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Recent demonstrations of normal tissue sparing by high-dose, high-dose-rate
FLASH radiation therapy have driven considerable interest in its application to improve …

Model studies of the role of oxygen in the FLASH effect

V Favaudon, R Labarbe, CL Limoli - Medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Current radiotherapy facilities are standardized to deliver dose rates around 0.1–0.4 Gy/s in
2 Gy daily fractions, designed to deliver total accumulated doses to reach the tolerance limit …

FLASH investigations using protons: design of delivery system, preclinical setup and confirmation of FLASH effect with protons in animal systems

Q Zhang, E Cascio, C Li, Q Yang… - Radiation …, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
Extremely high-dose-rate irradiation, referred to as FLASH, has been shown to be less
damaging to normal tissues than the same dose administrated at conventional dose rates …