Arash Darafsheh

About

Arash Darafsheh is a Professor of Radiation Oncology, a board-certified medical physicist by American Board of Radiology (ABR), and the PI of the Optical Imaging and Dosimetry Lab at the Department of Radiation Oncology in Washington University School of Medicine. His current active research interests are related to the applications of optics in medical physics, experimental and computational dosimetery, and FLASH radiation therapy. Dr. Darafsheh is a senior member of SPIE and Optica (formerly, OSA) and a member of AAPM. He is an associate editor for Medical Physics journal.

Employment

• Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine Professor
  2026 - Present
• Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine Associate Professor
  2020 - 2025
• Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Assistant Professor
  2017 - 2020
• University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Medical Physicist Resident
  2015 - 2017
• University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Researcher
  2013 - 2015

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Certificate in Medical Physics
  2013 - 2015
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte Ph.D. / Optical Science and Engineering
  2008 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (151)

• Feasibility study on using low dose CT for adaptive proton therapy
  Medical Dosimetry 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2025.05.001
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• Implementation of a proton FLASH platform for pre-clinical studies using a gantry-mounted synchrocyclotron
  Physics in Medicine & Biology 2025 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/add106
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• On energy dependency, spectral properties, and orientation dependency of EBT3, EBT-XD, MD-V3, and HD-V2 radiochromic films
  Physics in Medicine & Biology 2025 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/adcafc
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• Polarization-driven dynamic laser speckle analysis for characterizing breast cancer cells
  Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXXVI 2025 DOI: 10.1117/12.3038609
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• Wall proximity effect on microparticles observed via dynamic laser speckle analysis
  Optical Biopsy XXIII: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis 2025 DOI: 10.1117/12.3038600
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• Extending microsphere-assisted microscopy to polarization-driven dynamic laser speckle analysis
  Label-free Biomedical Imaging and Sensing (LBIS) 2025 2025 DOI: 10.1117/12.3038608
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• Liquid flow sensing through dynamic laser speckle analysis
  Biomedical Light Scattering XV 2025 DOI: 10.1117/12.3038607
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• Super-resolved digital in-line holography by a dielectric microsphere
  Quantitative Phase Imaging XI 2025 DOI: 10.1117/12.3037431
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• Microsphere-assisted laser speckle polarimetric microscopy
  Journal of Applied Physics 2025 DOI: 10.1063/5.0244195
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• Design, fabrication, commissioning, and dosimetric verification of a GRID collimator for proton SFRT on a compact proton therapy machine
  Medical Physics 2025 DOI: 10.1002/mp.17939
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