Dartmouth researchers convert a standard linear accelerator used for delivery of radiation therapy cancer treatment, to deliver an ultra-high-dose rate radiation therapy beam to patients "in a flash." ...
Whorls of FLASH: (a) Optimized scan patterns; (b) comparison of standard (non-optimized) line-by-line and scan-pattern optimized (SPO) patterns. The resulting pencil-beam scanning dose rate (PBS-DR) ...
After conversion of a standard clinical linac, it can deliver a FLASH beam with a dose rate 3000 times higher than used for conventional radiation treatment. (Courtesy: Mahbubur Rahman) Researchers ...