Rudi Labarbe1, Lucian Hotoiu2, Julie Barbier3, Vincent Favaudon4. 1. Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Electronic address: rudi.labarbe@iba-group.com. 2. Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Electronic address: lucian.hotoiu@iba-group.com. 3. Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Electronic address: julie.barbier@iba-group.com. 4. Institut Curie, Inserm U 1021-CNRS UMR 3347, University Paris-Saclay, PSL Research University, Centre Universitaire, Orsay Cedex, France. Electronic address: vincent.favaudon@curie.fr.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: FLASH radiotherapy, a technique based on delivering large doses in a single fraction at the micro/millisecond timescale, spares normal tissues from late radiation-induced toxicity, in an oxygen-dependent process, whilst keeping full anti-tumor efficiency. We present a theoretical model taking into account the kinetics of formation and decay of reactive oxygen species, in particular of organic peroxyl radicals ROO. formed by addition of O2 to primary carbon-centred radicals R. and known to play a major role at the origin radio-induced complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The model focuses on the time-dependent evolution of radiolytic products in living matter exposed to continuous irradiation at dose-rates in the range 10-3-107Gy·s-1. The 9 differential rate equations resulting from the radiolytic and enzymatic reactions network were solved using the published values of these reactions rate constants in a cellular environment. RESULTS: The model suggests a correlation between the area-under-the-curve of time-evolving [ROO.] and the probability of normal tissue complications. The model does not lend weight to the hypothesis of transient oxygen depletion as a main determinant of FLASH but rather suggests a major role of radical-radical recombination. CONCLUSION: The model gives support to the reduction of ROO. lifetime as the main root of FLASH and compares favorably with published experimental results. We conclude that any process - in this case radical recombination - that shortens the lifetime or limits the radiolytic yield of ROO. is likely to protect normoxic tissues against the deleterious effects of radiation.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: FLASH radiotherapy, a technique based on delivering large doses in a single fraction at the micro/millisecond timescale, spares normal tissues from late radiation-induced toxicity, in an oxygen-dependent process, whilst keeping full anti-tumor efficiency. We present a theoretical model taking into account the kinetics of formation and decay of reactive oxygen species, in particular of organic peroxyl radicals ROO. formed by addition of O2 to primary carbon-centred radicals R. and known to play a major role at the origin radio-induced complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The model focuses on the time-dependent evolution of radiolytic products in living matter exposed to continuous irradiation at dose-rates in the range 10-3-107Gy·s-1. The 9 differential rate equations resulting from the radiolytic and enzymatic reactions network were solved using the published values of these reactions rate constants in a cellular environment. RESULTS: The model suggests a correlation between the area-under-the-curve of time-evolving [ROO.] and the probability of normal tissue complications. The model does not lend weight to the hypothesis of transient oxygen depletion as a main determinant of FLASH but rather suggests a major role of radical-radical recombination. CONCLUSION: The model gives support to the reduction of ROO. lifetime as the main root of FLASH and compares favorably with published experimental results. We conclude that any process - in this case radical recombination - that shortens the lifetime or limits the radiolytic yield of ROO. is likely to protect normoxic tissues against the deleterious effects of radiation.
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