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© SCKCEN, 2018 Microdosimetry in hadron therapy as a bridge between physics and biology Alessio Parisi a,b , Olivier Van Hoey a , Filip Vanhavere a , Sabina Chiriotti a , Marijke De Saint Hubert a , Jérémie Dabin a , Werner Schoonjans a , Patrice Mégret b , Charlot Vandevoorde c , Philip Beukes c , Evan Alexander de Kock c , Julyan Symons c , Jaime Nieto Camero c , Jacobus Slabbert c , Emily Debrot d , David Bolst d , Anatoly Rosenfeld d a Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium b University of Mons, Faculty of Engineering, Mons, Belgium c iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa d University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong, Australia BVS-ABR Young Scientist Event, Gent, 19/10/2018

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Microdosimetry in hadron therapy as a bridge

between physics and biology

Alessio Parisi a,b, Olivier Van Hoey a, Filip Vanhavere a, Sabina Chiriotti a, Marijke De Saint Hubert a, Jérémie Dabin a,

Werner Schoonjans a, Patrice Mégret b, Charlot Vandevoorde c, Philip Beukes c, Evan Alexander de Kock c, Julyan

Symons c, Jaime Nieto Camero c, Jacobus Slabbert c, Emily Debrot d, David Bolst d, Anatoly Rosenfeld d

a Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgiumb University of Mons, Faculty of Engineering, Mons, Belgiumc iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africad University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong, Australia

BVS-ABR Young Scientist Event, Gent, 19/10/2018

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Cancer therapy

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SURGERY CHEMOTHERAPY RADIOTHERAPY

The use of charged particle to treat cancer is increasing worldwide:

79 centers in operation, 45 in construction, 22 planned

Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG, https://www.ptcog.ch/)

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Hadron therapy has superior physical proprieties than conventional radiotherapy

3Mayo Clinic, United States of America (https://www.mayoclinic.org)

X-rays of conventional radiotherapy irradiate organs both in front of and behind the tumor

on the other hand, charged particle energy deposition can be better controlled

this allows a reduction of the doses to the surrounding organs lower risk of secondary cancers

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Charged particles are more effective in inducing lethal damages

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cells exposed to photons (left) or charged particles (right)

figures from Cucinotta and Durante, 2006, Weyrather and Kraft, 2004

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𝑅𝐵𝐸 =𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛

𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦

the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) is a parameter

indicating the effectiveness of a radiation in inducing a

determined effect in comparison to a reference radiation

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Charged particles are more effective in inducing lethal damages

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RBE is a complex function of particle type, its energy,

cell line, biological endpoint… currently, in proton therapy a constant RBE value of 1.1

in respect to photons is used

figures from Sorensen et al., 2011 and IAEA, 2008

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Increased RBE at the distal part of treatment

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recent evidences have proven the inadequacy

of using a constant factor, especially in the

distal edge region

this effect is due to the increased proton LET

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fragments

increased risks of secondary tumors

figure adapted from Chaudhary et al., 2014

U87 radioresistant human glioma

AG01522 normal human skin fibroblasts

A novel method has been developed

to assess LET and RBE in proton therapy beams

using couples of thermoluminescent detectors

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Methodology

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The response of two different types of detectors was predicted as function of the proton energy

LiF:Mg,Ti and LiF:Mg,Cu,P thermoluminescent detectors

Microdosimetric d(z) Model (Parisi, 2018) – key ideas and experimental validation

The relative response of the two detectors was correlated with the proton RBE

Correlation between the expected response and the proton dose average LETD

Database of experimentally determined RBE values as function of the LETD (Paganetti, 2014)

Validation of the methodology through a comparison with cell survival studies in a clinical SOBP

iThemba LABS (South Africa) proton therapy room

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO-K1)

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The luminescence phenomenon is explained as transition between a

ground state (valence band) and a excited state (condition band)

The radiation induced luminescent signal depends strongly on the

microscopic structure of the detector

different materials different trapping centers different luminescent

signal

Luminescence phenomenon

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the detector is supposed being composed by many independent

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to quantify changes in the pattern of energy deposition

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ions from 1H to 132Xe, photons, muons, antimatter

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Microdosimetric d(z) Model – HCPs, results for LiF:Mg,Ti (MTS) detectors

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Microdosimetric d(z) Model – HCPs, results for LiF:Mg,Cu,P (MCP) detectors

As for LiF:Mg,Ti (MTS) detectors, the results of the model are

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Microdosimetric d(z) Model – photons, relative air kerma response

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A novel method to assess LET and RBE in proton therapy using TLD couples

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iThemba Labs measurement campaign

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Combined dosimetry-radiobiology experimental campaign

iThemba Labs (South Africa, April 2017)

Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK•CEN , Centre for Medical Radiation Physics – University of Wollongong

protons accelerated up to 200 MeV using a separated sector cyclotron

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iThemba Labs measurement campaign

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Aim: study eventual RBE variations within a therapeutic SOBP with emphasis on the distal part of the treatment

SOBP: range = 120 mm, modulation = 50 mm, max proton energy = 198.5 MeV

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iThemba Labs measurement campaign – RBE assessment, TLDs

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iThemba Labs measurement campaign – RBE assessment, CHO cells

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Very good agreement between the results of this new methodology and the in vitro cell survival study

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The Microdosimetric d(z) Model is a very powerful tool

very good agreement with experimental data for charged particles and photons

possibility of predicting detector efficiency for other type of radiation (exotic particles, antimatter…) and mixed fields

A new methodology has been proposed to correlate the relative light emission of two different crystals

with the radiation induced cell death

based on the Microdosimetric d(z) Model

LET and RBE in proton therapy beams using pairs of differently doped thermoluminescent detectors

very good agreement with and in vitro cell survival studies

Conclusions