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V-79 Chinese hamster cells irradiated with antiprotons, a study of peripheral damage due to medium and long range components of the annihilation radiation.

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PURPOSE:Radiotherapy of cancer carries a perceived risk of inducing secondary cancer and other damage due to dose delivered to normal tissue. While expectedly small, this risk must be carefully analysed for all modalities. Especially in the use of exotic particles like pions and antiprotons, which annihilate and produce a mixed radiation field when interacting with normal matter nuclei, the biological effective dose far out of field needs to be considered in evaluating this approach. We describe first biological measurements to address the concern that medium and long range annihilation products may produce a significant background dose and reverse any benefits of higher biological dose in the target area. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Using the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) we irradiated V-79 Chinese Hamster cells embedded in gelatine using an antiproton beam with fluence ranging from 4.5 x 10(8) to 4.5 x 10(9) particles, and evaluated the biological effect on cells located distal to the Bragg peak using clonogenic survival and the COMET assay. RESULTS:Both methods show a substantial biological effect on the cells in the entrance channel and the Bragg Peak area, but any damage is reduced to levels well below the effect in the entrance channel 15 mm distal to the Bragg peak for even the highest particle fluence used. CONCLUSIONS:The annihilation radiation generated by antiprotons stopping in biological targets causes an increase of the penumbra of the beam but the effect rapidly decreases with distance from the target volume. No major increase in the biological effect is found in the far field outside of the primary beam.

journal_name

Int J Radiat Biol

journal_title

International journal of radiation biology

authors

Kovacevic S,Bassler N,Hartley O,Knudsen H,Vranjes S,Garaj-Vrhovac V,Holzscheiter M

doi

10.3109/09553000903242081

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1148-56

issue

eissn

0955-3002

issn

1362-3095

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V-79 Chinese hamster cells irradiated with antiprotons, a study of peripheral damage due to medium and long range components of the annihilation radiation.