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Impact of secondary particles on microdistribution of deposited dose in biological tissue in the presence of gold and gadolinium nanoparticles under photon beam irradiation

3/25/2019 2019 - #01 Nuclear medicine and biology

Konobeev I. A. Kurachenko Yu.A. Sheino I. N.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2019.1.14

UDC: 615.849.114

It is experimentally proven that nanoparticles of high-Z materials can be used as radiosensitizers for photon beam therapy. In the authors’ opinion, data available as of today on the impact of secondary particles (electrons, photons and positrons are generated in biological tissue by penetrating beam of primary photons) on the distribution of deposited dose during photon beam therapy in the presence of nanoparticles, are insufficient. Investigation of this impact constituted the main goal of this work.

Two-stage simulation was performed using Geant4 platform. During the first stage layer of biological tissue (water) was irradiated by monoenergetic photon sources with energies ranging from 10 keV to 6 MeV. As the result of this modeling spectra of electrons, photons and positrons were obtained at the depth of 5 cm. During the second stage the obtained photon spectra were used to irradiate nanoparticles of gold, gadolinium and water. Radial distributions of energy deposited around nanoparticles were obtained as the result of this modeling.

Radial DEF (Dose Enhancement Factor) values around nanoparticles of gold and gadolinium positioned in water at the depth of 5 cm were obtained after processing the collected data. Contributions from primary photons and secondary particles (electrons, photons and positrons generated in the layer of water with 5-cm thickness by the penetrating beam of primary photons) in the additional dose deposited around the nanoparticles were calculated as well.

It was demonstrated that layer of biological tissue placed between the source of photons and nanoparticles considerably changes the initial spectrum of photons and this change is significant in the analysis of mechanism of radiosensitization of biological tissues by nanoparticles for all energies of photon sources of (up to 6 MeV).

It was established that interaction of electrons and positrons with nanoparticles does not lead to significant increase of additional dose in the vicinity of their surfaces and can be most likely excluded from consideration in the analysis of radiosensitization mechanism of nanoparticles.

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Link for citing the article: Konobeev I. A., Kurachenko Yu.A., Sheino I. N. Impact of secondary particles on microdistribution of deposited dose in biological tissue in the presence of gold and gadolinium nanoparticles under photon beam irradiation. Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika. 2019, no. 1, pp. 155-167; DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2019.1.14 (in Russian).

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