FLASH radiotherapy: current knowledge and future insights using proton-beam therapy

JR Hughes, JL Parsons - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
FLASH radiotherapy is the delivery of ultra-high dose rate radiation several orders of
magnitude higher than what is currently used in conventional clinical radiotherapy, and has …

Role of mitochondria in radiation responses: epigenetic, metabolic, and signaling impacts

D Averbeck, C Rodriguez-Lafrasse - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Until recently, radiation effects have been considered to be mainly due to nuclear DNA
damage and their management by repair mechanisms. However, molecular biology studies …

Radiobiology of the FLASH effect

AA Friedl, KM Prise, KT Butterworth… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Radiation exposures at ultrahigh dose rates (UHDRs) at several orders of magnitude greater
than in current clinical radiotherapy (RT) have been shown to manifest differential …

FLASH with carbon ions: Tumor control, normal tissue sparing, and distal metastasis in a mouse osteosarcoma model

W Tinganelli, U Weber, A Puspitasari… - Radiotherapy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The FLASH effect is a potential breakthrough in radiotherapy
because ultra-high dose-rate irradiation can substantially widen the therapeutic window …

[HTML][HTML] May oxygen depletion explain the FLASH effect? A chemical track structure analysis

D Boscolo, E Scifoni, M Durante, M Krämer… - Radiotherapy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Recent observations in animal models show that ultra-high dose
rate (“FLASH”) radiation treatment significantly reduces normal tissue toxicity maintaining an …

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 …

FLASH irradiation results in reduced severe skin toxicity compared to conventional-dose-rate irradiation

LA Soto, KM Casey, J Wang, A Blaney… - Radiation …, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
Radiation therapy, along with surgery and chemotherapy, is one of the main treatments for
cancer. While radiotherapy is highly effective in the treatment of localized tumors, its main …

A new platform for ultra-high dose rate radiobiological research using the BELLA PW laser proton beamline

J Bin, L Obst-Huebl, JH Mao, K Nakamura, LD Geulig… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Radiotherapy is the current standard of care for more than 50% of all cancer patients.
Improvements in radiotherapy (RT) technology have increased tumor targeting and normal …

FLASH dose rate helium ion beams: first in vitro investigations

T Tessonnier, S Mein, DWM Walsh… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To establish and investigate the effects of dose, linear energy transfer (LET), and O
2 concentration on biologic response to ultrahigh dose rate (uHDR; FLASH) helium ion …

Radiotherapy using high-intensity pulsed radiation beams (FLASH): a radiation-chemical perspective

P Wardman - Radiation Research, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
Radiation chemists have been routinely using high-dose microsecond-pulsed irradiation for
almost 60 years, involving many thousands of studies, in the technique of “pulse radiolysis” …