Background
Martin Fast studied physics at the University of Heidelberg (2005-2010). From 2010-2013 he conducted his PhD studies on “New Methods for Motion Management During Radiation Therapy” at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. After postdoc appointments at The Institute of Cancer Research - Royal Marsden hospital in London (2013-2016) and the Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital (2017-2019), Dr Fast was appointed as associate professor in the radiotherapy department of the UMC Utrecht in 2019. Dr Fast’s main research interest is the development of MRI-guided real-time adaptive radiotherapy. He is currently the (co-)author of 35+ peer-reviewed publications with more than 900 citations. In 2019 he received the prestigious NWO VIDI grant (EUR 800,000) to develop MRI-guided real-time adapted lung radiotherapy. In addition, Dr Fast is spearheading a project on MRI-guided stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR).

Projects

• BREATHE EASY (VIDI), Adapting lung radiotherapy in a heartbeat
• EU-fix, Rapid protyping of new adaptive workflows for the MRILinac

Three most recent publications

• Simultaneous multi-slice accelerated 4D-MRI for radiotherapy guidance. Keijnemans K, Borman PTS, van Lier AL, Verhoeff JJ, Raaymakers BW and Fast MF. Phys Med Biol. 2021 [(paper)] (doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/abf591)
• Dosimetric evaluation of MRI‐guided multi‐leaf collimator tracking and trailing for lung stereotactic body radiation therapy. Uijtewaal P, Borman PTS, Woodhead PL, Hackett SL, Raaymakers BW and Fast MF. Med Phys. 2021 [(paper)] (doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.14772)
• AAPM Task Group 264: The Safe Clinical Implementation of MLC Tracking in Radiotherapy. Keall PJ, Sawant A, Berbeco RI, Booth JT, Cho B, Cerviño LI, Cirino E, Dieterich S, Fast MF, Greer PB, Munck af Rosenschöld P, et al. Med Phys. 2021 [(paper)] (doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.14625)

Keywords: Radiotherapy | MRI guided Radiotherapy | Adaptive radiotherapy | Real-time adaptation | Cardiac radioablation | Cardiovascular MRI

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