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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS
Volume 98, Issue 5, Pages 1174-1182Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.03.025
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- Bernische Krebsliga [37223]
- Conseil Regional Rhone-Alpes
- la Ligue contre le Cancer, comite de la Drome
- l'Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer
- Imoxy ANR
- French program Investissement d'Avenir
- grant Infrastructure d'avenir en Biologie Sante [ANR-11-INBS-0006]
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Purpose: To compare the blood-brain barrier permeability changes induced by synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy (MRT, which relies on spatial fractionation of the incident x-ray beam into parallel micron-wide beams) with changes induced by a spatially uniform synchrotron x-ray radiation therapy. Methods and Materials: Male rats bearing malignant intracranial F98 gliomas were randomized into 3 groups: untreated, exposed to MRT (peak and valley dose: 241 and 10.5 Gy, respectively), or exposed to broad beam irradiation (BB) delivered at comparable doses (ie, equivalent to MRT valley dose); both applied by 2 arrays, intersecting orthogonally the tumor region. Vessel permeability was monitored in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging 1 day before (T-1) and 1, 2, 7, and 14 days after treatment start. To determine whether physiologic parameters influence vascular permeability, we evaluated vessel integrity in the tumor area with different values for cerebral blood flow, blood volume, edema, and tissue oxygenation. Results: Microbeam radiation therapy does not modify the vascular permeability of normal brain tissue. Microbeam radiation therapyeinduced increase of tumor vascular permeability was detectable from T-2 with a maximum at T-7 after exposure, whereas BB enhanced vessel permeability only at T7. At this stage MRT was more efficient at increasing tumor vessel permeability (BB vs untreated: +19.1%; P = .0467; MRT vs untreated: +44.8%; P<.0001), and its effects lasted until T-14 (MRT vs BB, +22.6%; P = .0199). We also showed that MRT was more efficient at targeting highly oxygenated (high blood volume and flow) and more proliferative parts of the tumor than BB. Conclusions: Microbeam radiation therapyeinduced increased tumor vascular permeability is: (1) significantly greater; (2) earlier and more prolonged than that induced by BB irradiation, especially in highly proliferative tumor areas; and (3) targets all tumor areas discriminated by physiologic characteristics, including those not damaged by homogeneous irradiation. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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