Ramish Ashraf, PhD

Biography

I grew up in Lahore, Pakistan where I did my bachelor’s in electrical engineering and transitioned into a PhD in Medical Physics at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. My PhD work was primarily on beam monitoring and dosimetry for small fields and FLASH radiotherapy. In my free time, I like to watch cricket, soccer, and hike and listen to all kinds of music.

Publications

Ashraf, M. R., Rahman, M, Zhang, R., Williams, B. B., Gladstone, D. J., Pogue, B. W., & Bruza, P Individual Pulse Monitoring and Dose Feedback System for Pre-Clinical Implementation of FLASH-RT (Submitted)

Rahman M, Ashraf M. R., Zhang R, et al. Spatial and temporal dosimetry of individual electron FLASH beam pulses using radioluminescence imaging. Phys Med Biol. Published online 2021. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ac0390

Cao, X., Zhang, R., Esipova, T.V., Allu, S.R., Ashraf, M. R., Rahman, M., Gunn, J.R., Bruza, P., Gladstone, D.J., Williams, B.B. and Swartz, H.M., (2021). Quantification of oxygen depletion during FLASH irradiation in vitro and in vivo. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.03.056

Ashraf, M. R., Zhang, R., Alexander, D., Williams, B. B., Gladstone, D. J., Pogue, B. W., & Bruza, P. (2020). 3D Plan Verification via Scintillation Imaging by Couch & Gantry Mounted Camera (IC3Dose Conference 2021)

Ashraf, M. R., Rahman, M., Zhang, R., Cao, X., Williams, B.B., Hoopes, P.J., Gladstone, D.J., Pogue, B.W. and Bruza, P. (2021), Technical Note: Single Pulse Beam Characterization for FLASH‐RT Using Optical Imaging in a Water Tank. Med. Phys., https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.14843

Rahman M*, Ashraf M. R.*, Zhang R, et al. Electron FLASH Delivery at Treatment Room Isocenter for Efficient Reversible Conversion of a Clinical LINAC. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2021;0(0). doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.01.011 (* Equal Contribution)

Ashraf, M. R.*, Rahman, M*., Zhang, R., Williams, B. B., Gladstone, D. J., Pogue, B. W., & Bruza, P. (2020). Dosimetry for FLASH Radiotherapy: A Review of Tools and the Role of Radioluminescence and Cherenkov Emission. Front. Phys. doi:10.3389/fphy.2020.00328. (* Equal Contribution)

Ashraf, M. R., Bruza, P., Pogue, B.W., Nelson, N., Williams, B.B., Jarvis, L.A., and Gladstone, D.J. (2019), Optical imaging provides rapid verification of static small beams, radiosurgery, and VMAT plans with millimeter resolution. Med. Phys., 46: 5227-5237. doi:10.1002/mp.13797

Ashraf, M. R., Bruza, P, Krishnaswamy, V., Gladstone, D. J. and Pogue, B. W. (2018), Technical Note: Time‐gating to medical linear accelerator pulses: Stray radiation detector. Med. Phys. doi:10.1002/mp.13311Tseng, H.‐H., Pakela, J., Ten Haken, R.K. and El Naqa, I. (2020), Introduction to machine and deep learning for medical physicists. Med. Phys., 47: e127-e147. doi:10.1002/mp.14140 Special Issue, Medical Physics