Technological Basis for Clinical Trials in FLASH Radiation Therapy: A Review

Authors *Yufan (Fred) Wu, MD, and *Hyunsoo Joshua No, MD, CMD, are co-first authors and physician residents, and Dylan Y. Breitkreutz, PhD, is a medical physics resident, all in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Anthony E. Mascia, PhD, is an assistant professor and director of medical physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Raphael Moeckli, PhD, is the radiotherapy physics group leader, Institute of Radiation Physics, Lausanne University Hospital and Lausanne University, Switzerland. Jean Bourhis, MD, PhD, is chief of radiation oncology, Departments of Radiation Oncology and Oncology, and the Radiation Oncology Laboratory, Lausanne University Hospital and Lausanne University, Switzerland. Emil Schüler, PhD, is an assistant professor of radiation oncology, Department of Radiation Physics, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. †Peter G. Maxim, PhD, is professor of radiation oncology and vice chair of medical physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California-Irvine. †Billy W. Loo Jr., MD, PhD, is professor of radiation oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Stanford Cancer Institute. *Contributed equally to this work. †Co-corresponding authors.