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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2022

Radical Production with Pulsed Beams: Understanding the Transition to FLASH.

Andrea Espinosa-Rodriguez, Daniel Sanchez-Parcerisa, Paula Ibáñez, Juan Antonio Vera-Sánchez, Alejandro Mazal, Luis Mario Fraile, José Manuel Udías

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 authors.

Andrea Espinosa-RodriguezGrupo de Física Nuclear, EMFTEL & IPARCOS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CEI Moncloa, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9804-2900
Daniel Sanchez-ParcerisaGrupo de Física Nuclear, EMFTEL & IPARCOS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CEI Moncloa, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Paula IbáñezGrupo de Física Nuclear, EMFTEL & IPARCOS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CEI Moncloa, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Juan Antonio Vera-SánchezCentro de Protonterapia Quironsalud, 28223 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3594-9457
Alejandro MazalCentro de Protonterapia Quironsalud, 28223 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1391-8446
Luis Mario FraileGrupo de Física Nuclear, EMFTEL & IPARCOS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CEI Moncloa, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6281-3635
José Manuel UdíasGrupo de Física Nuclear, EMFTEL & IPARCOS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CEI Moncloa, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3714-764X

Funding

Comunidad de Madrid RTI2018-098868-B-I00European Union RTC-2015-3772-1Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte FPU18/02551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) irradiation regimes have the potential to spare normal tissue while keeping equivalent tumoricidal capacity than conventional dose rate radiotherapy (CONV-RT). This has been called the FLASH effect. In this work, we present a new simulation framework aiming to study the production of radical species in water and biological media under different irradiation patterns. The chemical stage (heterogeneous phase) is based on a nonlinear reaction-diffusion model, implemented in GPU. After the first 1 μs, no further radical diffusion is assumed, and radical evolution may be simulated over long periods of hundreds of seconds. Our approach was first validated against previous results in the literature and then employed to assess the influence of different temporal microstructures of dose deposition in the expected biological damage. The variation of the Normal Tissue Complication Probability (NTCP), assuming the model of Labarbe et al., where the integral of the peroxyl radical concentration over time (AUC-ROO) is taken as surrogate for biological damage, is presented for different intra-pulse dose rate and pulse frequency configurations, relevant in the clinical scenario. These simulations yield that overall, mean dose rate and the dose per pulse are the best predictors of biological effects at UHDR.

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Radiotherapy DosageComputer Simulationchemical stageFLASH-RTGPUpulsed beamsradical recombinationultra-high dose rate

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PMID36362271
PMCPMC9656621

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