The FLASH enigma
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| author | Shvydka, Diana Karpov, Victor Gupta, Nilendu |
| author_facet | Shvydka, Diana Karpov, Victor Gupta, Nilendu |
| contents | We consider physics behind the FLASH modality of cancer radiation treatment where extremely short treatment times are achieved with ultra high dose rates maintaining the conventional antitumor effectiveness and yet substantially reducing damage to normal tissues (sparing effect). The difference in responses between normal and tumor tissues is attributed here to different recombination rates related to their structure morphologies: ordered in normal vs disordered in the tumor tissues. Correspondingly different are their charge densities under ionizing radiation. In normal tissues it is high enough to form electron-hole liquid (EHL). Because of low EHL diffusivities, the chemical reaction and generation of free radicals are suppressed; hence, sparing effect. To the contrary, a disordered tumor tissue renders efficient energy relaxation channels forming antitumor free radicals. We describe the FLASH thresholds for doses and dose rates. |
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| spellingShingle | The FLASH enigma Shvydka, Diana Karpov, Victor Gupta, Nilendu Medical Physics Materials Science We consider physics behind the FLASH modality of cancer radiation treatment where extremely short treatment times are achieved with ultra high dose rates maintaining the conventional antitumor effectiveness and yet substantially reducing damage to normal tissues (sparing effect). The difference in responses between normal and tumor tissues is attributed here to different recombination rates related to their structure morphologies: ordered in normal vs disordered in the tumor tissues. Correspondingly different are their charge densities under ionizing radiation. In normal tissues it is high enough to form electron-hole liquid (EHL). Because of low EHL diffusivities, the chemical reaction and generation of free radicals are suppressed; hence, sparing effect. To the contrary, a disordered tumor tissue renders efficient energy relaxation channels forming antitumor free radicals. We describe the FLASH thresholds for doses and dose rates. |
| title | The FLASH enigma |
| topic | Medical Physics Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15913 |