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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2025

Probing Spatiotemporal Effects of Intertrack Recombination with a New Implementation of Simultaneous Multiple Tracks in TRAX-CHEM.

Lorenzo Castelli, Gianmarco Camazzola, Martina C Fuss, Daria Boscolo, Michael Krämer, Valentina Tozzini, Marco Durante, Emanuele Scifoni

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Lorenzo CastelliDepartment of Physics, University of Trento, 38121 Trento, Italy.
Gianmarco CamazzolaBiophysics Division, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8204-7763
Martina C FussDepartment of Medical Physics, MedAustron, 2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-5332-6491
Daria BoscoloBiophysics Division, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5709-4472
Michael KrämerBiophysics Division, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany.
Valentina TozziniIstituto Nanoscienze-CNR, NEST-SNS, 56127 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7586-5039
Marco DuranteBiophysics Division, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4615-553X
Emanuele ScifoniTrento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Application, TIFPA, 38123 Povo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1851-5152

Funding

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare CSN5-FRIDA and MIRO
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the most investigated hypotheses for a radiobiological explanation of the mechanism behind the FLASH effect in ultra-high dose rate radiotherapy, intertrack recombination between particle tracks arriving at a close spatiotemporal distance has been suggested. In the present work, we examine these conditions for different beam qualities and energies, defining the limits of both space and time where a non-negligible chemical effect is expected. To this purpose the TRAX-CHEM chemical track structure Monte Carlo code has been extended to handle several particle tracks at the same time, separated by pre-defined spatial and temporal distances. We analyzed the yields of different radicals as compared to the non-interacting track conditions and we evaluated the difference. We find a negligible role of intertrack for spatial distances larger than 1 μm, while for temporal distances up to μs, a non-negligible interaction is observed especially at higher LET. In addition, we emphasize the non-monotonic behavior of some relative yield as a function of the time separation, in particular of H2O2, due to the onset of a different reaction involving solvated electrons besides well-known OH· recombination.

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RadiotherapyElectronsHydroxyl RadicalLinear Energy TransferMonte Carlo MethodHydroxyl RadicalFLASH radiotherapyintertrack recombinationradiation track structure simulationultra-high dose rate response

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PMID39859287
PMCPMC11765274

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