Preclinical Ultra-High Dose Rate (FLASH) Proton Radiation Therapy System for Small Animal Studies

Purpose: Animal studies with ultrahigh dose-rate radiation therapy (FLASH, >40 Gy/s) preferentially spare normal tissues without sacrificing antitumor efficacy compared with conventional dose-rate radiation therapy (CONV). At the University of Washington, we developed a cyclotron-generated precli...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ning Cao, PhD, Danielle P. Johnson Erickson, PhD, Eric C. Ford, PhD, Robert C. Emery, MS, Marissa Kranz, MS, Peter Goff, MD, PhD, Marco Schwarz, PhD, Juergen Meyer, PhD, Tony Wong, PhD, Jatinder Saini, PhD, MBA, Charles Bloch, PhD, Robert D. Stewart, PhD, George A. Sandison, PhD, Alec Morimoto, BS, Ava DeLonais-Dick, BS, Ben A. Shaver, BS, Ramesh Rengan, MD, PhD, Jing Zeng, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
Series:Advances in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452109423002531