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ArticleScientific reports2017

An Expanded Multi-scale Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Personalized Radiobiological Effect Estimation in Radiotherapy: a feasibility study.

Ying Zhang, Yuanming Feng, Wei Wang, Chengwen Yang, Ping Wang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. Monte Carlo methods to assess biological response to radiation in peripheral organs and in critical organs near the target.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2024
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Ying ZhangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Yuanming FengDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Wei WangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin 300060, China.
Chengwen YangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Ping WangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin 300060, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A novel and versatile "bottom-up" approach is developed to estimate the radiobiological effect of clinic radiotherapy. The model consists of multi-scale Monte Carlo simulations from organ to cell levels. At cellular level, accumulated damages are computed using a spectrum-based accumulation algorithm and predefined cellular damage database. The damage repair mechanism is modeled by an expanded reaction-rate two-lesion kinetic model, which were calibrated through replicating a radiobiological experiment. Multi-scale modeling is then performed on a lung cancer patient under conventional fractionated irradiation. The cell killing effects of two representative voxels (isocenter and peripheral voxel of the tumor) are computed and compared. At microscopic level, the nucleus dose and damage yields vary among all nucleuses within the voxels. Slightly larger percentage of cDSB yield is observed for the peripheral voxel (55.0%) compared to the isocenter one (52.5%). For isocenter voxel, survival fraction increase monotonically at reduced oxygen environment. Under an extreme anoxic condition (0.001%), survival fraction is calculated to be 80% and the hypoxia reduction factor reaches a maximum value of 2.24. In conclusion, with biological-related variations, the proposed multi-scale approach is more versatile than the existing approaches for evaluating personalized radiobiological effects in radiotherapy.

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Models, BiologicalMonte Carlo MethodRadiotherapy DosageRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsCell SurvivalComputer SimulationDose-Response Relationship, RadiationHumansRadiotherapyTreatment Outcome

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PMID28322329
PMCPMC5359554

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