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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2025

The Biophysics of Flash Radiotherapy: Tools for Measuring Tumor and Normal Tissues Microenvironment.

Islam G Ali, Issam El Naqa

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Microenvironmental remodeling in FLASH radiotherapy.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Islam G AliDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Science, Arish University, Arish 45511, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-4924-3033
Issam El NaqaDepartments of Machine Learning and Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6023-1132

Funding

Combined radiation acoustics and ultrasound imaging for real-time guidance in radiotherapyR37CA222215 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI EL NAQA, ISSAM M. · 2018 to 2024
$3.5M
An Ionizing Radiation Acoustics Imaging (iRAI) Approach for guided Flash RadiotherapyR01CA266803 · NCI · H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST · PI BORTFELD, THOMAS R., EL NAQA, ISSAM M. · 2022 to 2025
$3.3M
National Institute of Health R37-CA222215 and R01-CA266803.NCI NIH HHS R01 CA266803NCI NIH HHS R37 CA222215
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultra-high dose rate radiotherapy known as Flash radiotherapy (FLASH-RT) offers tremendous opportunities to improve the therapeutic ratio of radiotherapy by sparing the normal tissue while maintaining similar tumoricidal efficacy. However, the underlying biophysical basis of the FLASH effect remains under active investigation with several proposed mechanisms involving oxygen depletion, altered free-radical chemistry, and differential biological responses. This article provides an overview of available experimental and computational tools that can be utilized to probe the tumor and normal tissue microenvironment. We analyze in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo systems used to study FLASH responses. We describe various computational and imaging technologies that can potentially aid in understanding the biophysics of FLASH-RT and lead to safer clinical translational.

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biophysicscomputational modelingexperimental systemsflash radiotherapyin vivo imagingmicroenvironmentnormal tissue protectiontumor response

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PMID40867798
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