Exploiting geometrical irradiation possibilities in MRT application

Authors

E Brauer-Krish, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
H Requardt, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
P Regnard, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
s corde, European Synchrotron Radiation FacilityFollow
E A. Siegbahn, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
G LeDuc, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
H Blattmann, Unterriedstrasse
J Laissue, University of Bern
A Bravin, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

RIS ID

76659

Publication Details

Brauer-Krish, E., Requardt, H., Regnard, P., corde, s., Siegbahn, E. A., LeDuc, G., Blattmann, H., Laissue, J. & Bravin, A. (2005). Exploiting geometrical irradiation possibilities in MRT application. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 548 69-71.

Abstract

Microbeam Radiation Therapy (MRT) has the potential to treat infantile brain tumors when other kinds of radiotherapy would be excessively toxic to the developing normal brain. MRT uses extraordinarily high doses of X-rays but provides unusual resistance to radioneurotoxicity, presumably from the rapid migration of regenerative endothelial cells from dose ''valleys'' into dose ''peaks'', i.e., into directly irradiated micro-slices of tissues. We will present a novel irradiation geometry which results in a tolerable valley dose for the normal tissue and a decreased peak-to-valley dose ratio (PVDR) in the tumor area by applying an innovative cross-firing technique. We propose an MRT technique to orthogonally crossfire two arrays of parallel, nonintersecting, mutually interspersed microbeams that produces tumoricidal doses with small PVDRs where the arrays meet and tolerable radiation doses to normal tissues between the microbeams proximal and distal to the tumor in the paths of the arrays.