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Ultra high dose rate Synchrotron Microbeam Radiation Therapy. Preclinical evidence in view of a clinical transfer

Eling L, Bouchet A, Nemoz C, Djonov V, Balosso J, Laissue J, Bräuer-Krisch E, Adam JF et al.

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2019

Abstract

This paper reviews the current state of the art of an emerging form of radiosurgery dedicated to brain tumour treatment and which operates at very high dose rate (kGy·s-1). Microbeam Radiation Therapy uses synchrotron-generated X-rays which triggered normal tissue sparing partially mediated by FLASH effect.

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