Monte Carlo dosimetry for forthcoming clinical trials in X-ray microbeam radiation therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4375-4388

  Martinez Rovira I ^a,b   Sempau, J ^b   Fernandez Varea J M ^c   Bravin, A ^a   Prezado, Y ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN;

BONE AND BONES; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN;

EID: 78049436575     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/15/012     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Barth R F, Coderre J A, Vicente M G H and Blue T E 2005 Boron neutron capture therapy of cancer: current status and future prospects Clin. Cancer Res. 11 3987-4002
2. Behin A, Hoang-Xuan K, Carpentier A F and Delattre J Y 2003 Primary brain tumours in adults Lancet Oncol. 361 323-31
3. Blattmann H et al 2005 Applications of synchrotron x-rays for radiotherapy Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 548 17-22
4. Boudou C, Balosso J, Estève F and Elleaume H 2005 Monte Carlo dosimetry for synchrotron stereotactic radiotherapy of brain tumours Phys. Med. Biol. 50 4841-51 (Pubitemid 41417007)
5. Bräuer-Krisch E, Requardt H, Brochard T, Berruyer G, Renier M, Laissue J A and Bravin A 2009 New technology enables high precision multislit collimators for microbeam radiation therapy Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80 074301
6. Brenner D J 2008 The linear-quadratic model is an appropriate methodology for determining isoeffective doses at large doses per fraction Semin. Radiat. Oncol. 18 234-9
7. Cardinale R M, Benedict S H, Wu Q, Zwicker R D, Gaballa H E and Mohan R 1998 A comparison of three stereotactic radiotherapy techniques: ARCS vs. noncoplanar fixed fields vs. intensity modulation Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 42 431-6
8. Company F Z and Allen B J 1998 Calculation of microplanar beam dose profiles in a tissue/lung/tissue phantom Med. Phys. Biol. 43 2491-501
9. Cullen D E, Hubbell J H and Kissel L 1997 EPDL97: The evaluated photon data library, 97 version. Report UCRL-50400 vol 6 (Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
10. Curtis H J 1967 The use of a deuteron microbeam for simulating the biological effects of heavy cosmic-ray particles Radiat. Res. Suppl. 7 250-7
11. De Felici M, Felici R, Sanchez del Rio M, Ferrero C, Bacarian T and Dilmanian F A 2005 Dose distributions from x-ray microbeam arrays applied to radiation therapy: an EGS4 Monte Carlo study Med. Phys. 32 2455-63
12. Dilmanian F A et al 2001 Response of avian embryonic brain to spatially segmented x-ray microbeams Cell. Mol. Biol. (Noisy-le-grand) 47 485-93
13. Dilmanian F A et al 2002 Response of rat intracranial 9 L gliosarcoma to microbeam radiation therapy Neuro Oncol. 4 26-38
14. Dilmanian F A, Morris G M, Zhong N, Bacarian T, Hainfeld J F, Kalef-Ezra J, Brewington L J, Tammam J and Rosen E M 2003 Murine EMT-6 carcinoma: high therapeutic efficacy of microbeam radiation therapy Radiat. Res. 159 632-41
15. Dilmanian F A, Zhong Z, Bacarian T, Benveniste H, Romanelli P, Wang R, Welwart J, Yuasa T, Rosen E M and Anschel D J 2006 Interlaced x-ray microplanar beams: a radiosurgery approach with clinical potential Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103 9709-14
16. Emami B, Lyman J, Brown A, Coia L, Goitein M, Munzenrider J E, Shank B, Solin L J and Wesson M 1991 Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic irradiation Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 21 109-22
17. Fernández-Varea J M, Carrasco P, Panettieri V and Brualla L 2007 Monte Carlo based water/medium stopping-power ratios for various ICRP and ICRU tissues Phys. Med. Biol. 52 6475-83
18. Flickinger J C and Kalend A 1990 Use of normalized total dose to represent the biological effect of fractionated radiotherapy Radiother. Oncol. 17 339-47
19. Garcia L M, Leblanc J, Wilkins D and Raaphorst G P 2006 Fitting the linear-quadratic model to detailed data sets for different dose ranges Phys. Med. Biol. 51 2813-23
20. Guerrero M and Li X A 2004 Extending the linear-quadratic model for large fraction doses pertinent to stereotactic radiotherapy Phys. Med. Biol. 49 4825-35
21. Harling O K, Roberts K A, Moulin D J and Rogus R D 1995 Head phantoms for neutron capture therapy Med. Phys. 22 579-83
22. ICRU 37 1984 Stopping Powers for Electrons and Positrons ICRU Report No 37 (Bethesda, MD: ICRU)
23. Joiner M and van der Kogel A (ed) 2009 Basic Clinical Radiobiology (London: Edward Arnold)
24. Kagan A R, Steckel R J, Cancilla P, Juillard G and Patin T 1976 The pathogenesis of brain necrosis: time and dose parameters Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 1 729-32
25. Kirkpatrick J P, Brenner D J and Orton C G 2009 POINT/COUNTERPOINT: the linear-quadratic model is inappropriate to model high dose per fraction effects in radiosurgery Med. Phys. 36 3381-4
26. Laissue J A et al 1998 Neuropathologyof ablation of rat gliosarcomas and contiguous brain tissues using a microplanar beam of synchrotron-wiggler- generated X rays Int. J. Cancer 78 654-60
27. Laissue J A et al 1999 Microbeam radiation therapy Proc. SPIE 3770 38-45
28. Laissue J A et al 2001 The weanling piglet cerebellum: a surrogate for tolerance to MRT (microbeam radiation therapy) in pediatric neuro-oncology Proc. SPIE 4508 65-73
29. Laissue J A, Blattmann H, Wagner H P, Grotzer M A and Slatkin D N 2007 Prospects for microbeam radiation therapy of brain tumours in children to reduce neurological sequelae Dev. Med. Child. Neurol. 49 577-81
30. Lawrence Y R, Li X A, el Naqa I, Hahn C A, Marks L B, Merchant T E and Dicker A P 2010 Radiation dose-volume effects in the brain Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 76 S20-7
31. Lind B K, Persson L M, Edgren M R, Hedlöf I and Brahme A 2003 Repairable-conditionally repairable damage model based on dual Poisson processes Radiat. Res. 160 366-75
32. Miura M, Blattmann H, Bräuer-Krisch E, Bravin A, Hanson A L, Nawrocky M M, Micca P L, Slatkin D N and Laissue J A 2006 Radiosurgical palliation of aggressive murine SCCVII squamous cell carcinomas using synchrotrongenerated x-ray microbeams Br. J. Radiol. 79 71-5
33. Orion I, Rosenfeld A B, Dilmanian F A, Telang F, Ren B and Namito Y 2000 Monte Carlo simulation of dose distributions from a synchrotron-produced microplanar beam array using the EGS4 code system Phys. Med. Biol. 45 2497-508
34. Overgaard M 1988 Spontaneous radiation-induced rib fractures in breast cancer patients treated with postmastectomy irradiation-a clinical radiobiological analysis of the influence of fraction size and dose-response relationships on late bone damage Acta Oncol. 27 117-22
35. Phillips M H, Stelzer K J, Griffin T W, Mayberg M R and Winn H R 1994 Stereotactic radiosurgery: A review and comparison of methods J. Clin. Oncol. 12 1085-99
36. Prezado Y, Fois G, Edouard M, Nemoz C, Renier M, Requardt H, Estève F, Adam J F, Elleaume H and Bravin A 2009a Biological equivalent dose studies for dose escalation in stereotactic synchrotron radiation therapy clinical trials Med. Phys. 36 725-33
37. Prezado Y, Fois G, Le Duc G and Bravin A 2009b Gadolinium dose enhancement studies in microbeam radiation therapy Med. Phys. 36 3568-74
38. Regnard P et al 2008 Irradiation of intracerebral 9 L gliosarcoma by a single array of microplanar x-ray beams from a synchrotron: balance between curing and sparing Phys. Med. Biol. 53 861-78
39. QUANTEC 2010 Quantitative analyses of normal tissue effects in the clinic Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 76 S1-160
40. Renier M et al 2008 The radiotherapy clinical trials projects at the ESRF: technical aspects Eur. J. Radiol. 68S S147-50
41. Sachs R K, Hahnfeld P and Brenner D J 1997 The link between low-LET dose-response relations and the underlying kinetics of damage production repair misrepair Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 72 351-74
42. Salvat F, Jablonski A and Powell C J 2005 ELSEPA-Dirac partial-wave calculations of elastic scattering of electrons and positrons by atoms, positive ions and molecules Comput. Phys. Commun. 165 157-90
43. Salvat F, Fernández-Varea J M and Sempau J 2006 PENELOPE-2006, A Code System for Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport (Issy-les-Moulineaux: OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)
44. Sempau J, Acosta E, Baró J, Fernández-Varea J M and Salvat F 1997 An algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation of coupled electron-photon transport Nucl. Instrum. Methods B 132 377-90
45. Sempau J, Sánchez-Reyes A, Salvat F, Oulad ben Tahar H, Jiang S B and Fernández-Varea J M 2001 Monte Carlo simulation of electron beams from an accelerator head using PENELOPE Phys. Med. Biol. 46 1163-86
46. Sempau J and Andreo P 2006 Configuration of the electron transport algorithm of PENELOPE to simulate ion chambers Phys. Med. Biol. 51 3533-48
47. Sempau J and Badal A 2008 PenEasy, a modular main program and voxelised geometry package for PENELOPE http://www.upc.edu/inte/downloads/penEasy.htm
48. Serduc R et al 2008 Characterization and quantification of cerebral edema induced by synchrotron x-ray microbeam radiation therapy Phys. Med. Biol. 53 1153-66
49. Shaw E, Scott C, Souhami L, Dinapoli R, Kline R, Loeffler J and Farnan N 2000 Single dose radiosurgical treatment of recurrent previously irradiated primary brain tumors and brain metastases: Final report of RTOG PROTOCOL 90-05 Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 47 291-8
50. Siegbahn E A, Stepanek J, Bräuer-Krisch E and Bravin A 2006 Determination of dosimetrical quantities used in microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) with Monte Carlo simulations Med. Phys. 33 3248-59
51. Slatkin D N, Spanne P, Dilmanian F A and Sandborg M 1992 Microbeam radiation therapy Med. Phys. 19 1395-400
52. Slatkin D N, Spanne P, Dilmanian F A, Gebbers J O and Laissue J A 1995 Subacute neuropathological effects of microplanar beams of x-rays from a synchrotron wiggler Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 92 8783-7
53. Smilowitz H M et al 2006 Synergy of gene-mediated immunoprophylaxis and microbeam radiation therapy for advanced intracerebral rat 9 L gliosarcomas Neuro Oncol. 78 135-43
54. Spiga J, Siegbahn E A, Bräuer-Krisch E, Randaccio P and Bravin A 2007 The GEANT4 toolkit for microdosimetry calculations: application to microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) Med. Phys. 34 4322-30 (Pubitemid 350029654)
55. Steel G G (ed) 2002 Basic Clinical Radiobiology 3rd edn (London: Edward Arnold)
56. Stepanek J, Blattmann H, Laissue J A, Lyubimova N, Di Michiel M and Slatkin D N 2000 Physics study of microbeam radiation therapy with PSI-version of Monte Carlo code GEANT as a new computational tool Med. Phys. 27 1664-75
57. Sterpin E, Salvat F, Cravens R, Ruchala K, Olivera G H and Vynckier S 2008 Monte Carlo simulation of helical tomotherapy with PENELOPE Phys. Med. Biol. 53 2161-80
58. Stupp R et al 2002 Promising survival for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme treated with concomitant radiation plus temozolomide followed by adjuvant temozolomide J. Clin. Oncol. 20 1375-82
59. Stupp R et al 2005 Radiotherapy plus concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide for glioblastoma N. Engl. J. Med. 352 987-96
60. Stupp R et al 2009 Effects of radiotherapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide versus radiotherapy alone on survival in glioblastoma in a randomised phase III study: 5-year analysis of the EORTC-NCIC trial Lancet Oncol. 10 459-66
61. 32P intravascular brachytherapy source wires using Monte Carlo codes PENELOPE and GEANT4 Med. Phys. 31 296-304
62. Turesson I and Thames H D 1989 Repair capacity and kinetics of human skin during fractionated radiotherapy: Erythema, desquamation, and telangiectasia after 3 and 5 years follow-up Radiother. Oncol. 15 169-88