SFRT & FLASH WORKING GROUPS

SFRT & FLASH Working Groups


About the SFRT and FLASH Radiation Therapy Working Group

The Radiosurgery Society® (RSS) has made a collaborative effort to create the SFRT and FLASH  Working Group to address the clinical and scientific facets of spatially fractionated radiation therapy (SFRT, including GRID, LATTICE, microbeam, minibeam and partial tumor irradiation) and FLASH radiation therapy, with the goal of encouraging and guiding more research to advance clinical treatments for patients. Members of the Working Group are experts or those with interest in SFRT and FLASH radiation therapy, and committed to work collectively to further  our understanding of biology, physics,  technical parameters, and clinical practice of these emerging technologies.  



Publications

Working Group Publications


An International Consensus on the Design of Prospective Clinical–Translational Trials in Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy for Advanced Gynecologic Cancer

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Tribulations and Trials: The Implementation of Biologically Dependent Radiation Therapy Technologies

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An International Consensus on the Design of Prospective Clinical−Translational Trials in Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy

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Radiation Research Special Issue: New Beam Delivery Modalities are Shaping the Future of Radiotherapy

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Implementation of New Biology-Based Radiation Therapy Technology: When Is It Ready So Perfect Makes Practice?

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Understanding High-Dose, Ultra-High Dose-Rate and, Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy

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Symposia & Workshops


Symposia & Workshops

The Working Group's Symposium 2024 Advancements in GRID, LATTICE, Microbeam and FLASH took place on March 20, 2024 at the Fairmont Millennium Park, Chicago, IL.  Abstracts from the symposium are available to RSS Members.

The Working Group's Symposium 2023 Advancements in GRID, LATTICE and FLASH symposium took place on March 22, 2023,at the Loews Sapphire Falls at Universal Orlando in Orlando, FL.  Abstracts from the symposium are available to the RSS Members. 


The Working Group's 2022 Advancements in GRID, LATTICE and FLASH Radiotherapy symposium took place on March 3, 2022, in Carlsbad, CA.


The RSS, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, hosted two GRID, LATTICE, Microbeam and FLASH Radiation Therapy Workshops. Abstracts from both workshops are available to the public and videos and presentations are available to RSS Members. 


RSS GRID, LATTICE, FLASH and Microbeam Radiation Therapies 2020 Virtual Session

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Workshop on Understanding High-Dose, Ultra-Dose-Rate and Spatial Fractionated Radiotherapy

August 21, 2018


Working Group Chairs:

Biology Chairpersons

  • Robert J. Griffin, PhD
    University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
  • Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman, PhD
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY

Physics Chairpersons

  • Xiaodong Wu, PhD
    SPHIC, Shanghai, China
  • Hualin Zhang, PhD
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Vice Chair: Sha Chang, PhD, FAAPM, DABR
    University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

Clinical Chairpersons

  • Nina A. Mayr, MD, FASTRO, FAAAS
    University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Charles B. Simone, II, MD, FACRO
    New York Proton Center, New York, NY
  • Vice Chair: Majid M. Mohiuddin, MD
    Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL
  • Vice Chair: James W. "JW" Snider, III, MD
    South Florida Proton Therapy Institute, Delray Beach, FL

Program Coordinator

Wendy Burman
Email: wburman@therss.org