UHDpulse - Metrology for advanced radiotherapy using particle beams with ultra-high pulse dose rates is a recently started European Joint Research Project with the aim to develop and improve dosimetry standards for FLASH radiotherapy, very high energy electron (VHEE) radiotherapy and laser-driven medical accelerators. This paper gives a short overview about the current state of developments of radiotherapy with FLASH electrons and protons, very high energy electrons as well as laser-driven particles and the related challenges in dosimetry due to the ultra-high dose rate during the short radiation pulses. We summarize the objectives and plans of the UHDpulse project and present the 16 participating partners.

ADVACAM s r o Praha Czech Republic

Central Office of Measures Ionizing Radiation Laboratory Warszawa Poland

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois Lausanne Switzerland

Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica Barcelona Spain

Czech Metrology Institute Brno Czech Republic

EBG MedAustron Wiener Neustadt Austria

Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie Bern Wabern Switzerland

ELI Beamlines Fyzikalni ustav Praha Czech Republic

Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Technische Universität Dresden Dresden Germany

IBA Dosimetry Schwarzenbruck Germany

Institut Curie Centre de Recherche Inserm U 1021 CNRS UMR 3347 Orsay France

Institut Curie Centre de Recherche Inserm U 1021 CNRS UMR 3347 Orsay France; Institut Curie Centre de protonthérapie d'Orsay Orsay France

Ionizing Radiation Standards National Research Council of Canada Ottawa Canada

Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Caen Normandie Univ ENSICAEN UNICAEN CNRS IN2P3 14000 Caen France

National Physical Laboratory Sezione di Catania Catania Italy

National Physical Laboratory Teddington United Kingdom

Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS Prague Czech Republic

Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig Germany

Politecnico di Milano Milano Italy

PTW Freiburg Freiburg Germany

PTW Freiburg Freiburg Germany; University Clinic for Medical Radiation Physics Medical Campus Pius Hospital Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg Germany

Queen's University Belfast Belfast United Kingdom

Sun Nuclear Corp Melbourne USA

Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela Spain

Varian Medical Systems Troisdorf Germany

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