SU-E-T-315: The Change of Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeters (OSLDs) Sensitivity by Accumulated Dose and High Dose

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (6Part16) ◽  
pp. 296-296
Author(s):  
S Han ◽  
S Choi ◽  
S Park ◽  
H Jung ◽  
M Kim ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (06) ◽  
pp. 438-444
Author(s):  
Jennifer Staudt ◽  
Christian Happel ◽  
Wolfgang Tilman Kranert ◽  
Benjamin Bockisch ◽  
Frank Grünwald

Abstract Aim Aim of the study was to determine the effects of the β--emitter 186Re and 662 keV photon radiation in order to compare the biological effects of low dose rate (186Re) to high dose rate irradiation. Methods Prae-B-lymphocytes were exposed to 662 keV photon radiation or incubated with a liquid solution of 186Re. Cell count and viability were compared over the observation period of seven days, survival curves constructed and analysed at time of lowest cell-viability. Results Biphasic cell survival curves resulted for both radiation types. Survival curves were obtained at 24 h for photon radiation and 72 h for 186Re. The biphasic survival curve after photon radiation exposure can be explained by radiation hypersensitivity at doses below 1 Gy resulting in a D0 of 3.3 Gy. Doses exceeding 1.0 Gy showed a D0 of 10 Gy. The biphasic survival curve in case of 186Re incubation represents repair of sub lethal damage in the first section of the curve (D0 11.1 Gy) – in this case, biological effects of the β--emitter are attenuated by repair. Beyond an accumulated dose of 1.6 Gy, 186Re showed a steeper slope with a D0 of 4 Gy, corresponding to 2.5 times higher biological effects compared to acute photon irradiation (10 Gy). Conclusion Low dose rate radiation resulted in low biological effects at low doses. There is a threshold of accumulated dose above which biological effects of 186Re-incubation exceed those of photon irradiation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina I. Niebuhr ◽  
Mona Splinter ◽  
Tilman Bostel ◽  
Joao Seco ◽  
Clemens M. Hentschke ◽  
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Abstract Background This work addresses a basic inconsistency in the way dose is accumulated in radiotherapy when predicting the biological effect based on the linear quadratic model (LQM). To overcome this inconsistency, we introduce and evaluate the concept of the total biological dose, bEQDd. Methods Daily computed tomography imaging of nine patients treated for prostate carcinoma with intensity-modulated radiotherapy was used to compute the delivered deformed dose on the basis of deformable image registration (DIR). We compared conventional dose accumulation (DA) with the newly introduced bEQDd, a new method of accumulating biological dose that considers each fraction dose and tissue radiobiology. We investigated the impact of the applied fractionation scheme (conventional/hypofractionated), uncertainties induced by the DIR and by the assigned α/β-value. Results bEQDd was systematically higher than the conventionally accumulated dose with difference hot spots of 3.3–4.9 Gy detected in six out of nine patients in regions of high dose gradient in the bladder and rectum. For hypofractionation, differences are up to 8.4 Gy. The difference amplitude was found to be in a similar range to worst-case uncertainties induced by DIR and was higher than that induced by α/β. Conclusion Using bEQDd for dose accumulation overcomes a potential systematic inaccuracy in biological effect prediction based on accumulated dose. Highest impact is found for serial-type late responding organs at risk in dose gradient regions and for hypofractionation. Although hot spot differences are in the order of several Gray, in dose-volume parameters there is little difference compared with using conventional or biological DA. However, when local dose information is used, e.g. dose surface maps, difference hot spots can potentially change outcomes of dose-response modelling and adaptive treatment strategies.


Author(s):  
M. Isaacson ◽  
M.L. Collins ◽  
M. Listvan

Over the past five years it has become evident that radiation damage provides the fundamental limit to the study of blomolecular structure by electron microscopy. In some special cases structural determinations at very low doses can be achieved through superposition techniques to study periodic (Unwin & Henderson, 1975) and nonperiodic (Saxton & Frank, 1977) specimens. In addition, protection methods such as glucose embedding (Unwin & Henderson, 1975) and maintenance of specimen hydration at low temperatures (Taylor & Glaeser, 1976) have also shown promise. Despite these successes, the basic nature of radiation damage in the electron microscope is far from clear. In general we cannot predict exactly how different structures will behave during electron Irradiation at high dose rates. Moreover, with the rapid rise of analytical electron microscopy over the last few years, nvicroscopists are becoming concerned with questions of compositional as well as structural integrity. It is important to measure changes in elemental composition arising from atom migration in or loss from the specimen as a result of electron bombardment.


Author(s):  
D.T. Grubb

Diffraction studies in polymeric and other beam sensitive materials may bring to mind the many experiments where diffracted intensity has been used as a measure of the electron dose required to destroy fine structure in the TEM. But this paper is concerned with a range of cases where the diffraction pattern itself contains the important information.In the first case, electron diffraction from paraffins, degraded polyethylene and polyethylene single crystals, all the samples are highly ordered, and their crystallographic structure is well known. The diffraction patterns fade on irradiation and may also change considerably in a-spacing, increasing the unit cell volume on irradiation. The effect is large and continuous far C94H190 paraffin and for PE, while for shorter chains to C 28H58 the change is less, levelling off at high dose, Fig.l. It is also found that the change in a-spacing increases at higher dose rates and at higher irradiation temperatures.


Author(s):  
T. L. Benning ◽  
P. Ingram ◽  
J. D. Shelburne

Two benzofuran derivatives, chlorpromazine and amiodarone, are known to produce inclusion bodies in human tissues. Prolonged high dose chlorpromazine therapy causes hyperpigmentation of the skin with electron-dense inclusion bodies present in dermal histiocytes and endothelial cells ultrastructurally. The nature of the deposits is not known although a drug-melanin complex has been hypothesized. Amiodarone may also cause cutaneous hyperpigmentation and lamellar lysosomal inclusion bodies have been demonstrated within the cells of multiple organ systems. These lamellar bodies are believed to be the product of an amiodarone-induced phospholipid storage disorder. We performed transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis (EDXA) on tissue samples from patients treated with these drugs, attempting to detect the sulfur atom of chlorpromazine and the iodine atom of amiodarone within their respective inclusion bodies.A skin biopsy from a patient with hyperpigmentation due to prolonged chlorpromazine therapy was fixed in 4% glutaraldehyde and processed without osmium tetroxide or en bloc uranyl acetate for Epon embedding.


Author(s):  
G.A. Miranda ◽  
M.A. Arroyo ◽  
C.A. Lucio ◽  
M. Mongeotti ◽  
S.S. Poolsawat

Exposure to drugs and toxic chemicals, during late pregnancy, is a common occurrence in childbearing women. Some studies have reported that more than 90% of pregnant women use at least 1 prescription; of this, 60% used more than one. Another study indicated that 80% of the consumed drugs were not prescribed, and of this figure, 95% were “over-the-counter” drugs. Acetaminophen, the safest of all over-the-counter drugs, has been reported to induce fetal liver necrosis in man and animals and to have abortifacient and embryocidal action in mice. This study examines the degree to which acetaminophen affects the neonatal liver and kidney, when a fatty diet is simultaneously fed to the mother during late pregnancy.Timed Swiss Webster female mice were gavaged during late pregnancy (days 16-19) with fat suspended acetaminophen at a high dose, HD = 84.50 mg/kg, and a low dose, LD = 42.25 mg/kg; a control group received fat alone.


Author(s):  
N. Lewis ◽  
E. L. Hall ◽  
A. Mogro-Campero ◽  
R. P. Love

The formation of buried oxide structures in single crystal silicon by high-dose oxygen ion implantation has received considerable attention recently for applications in advanced electronic device fabrication. This process is performed in a vacuum, and under the proper implantation conditions results in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure with a top single crystal silicon layer on an amorphous silicon dioxide layer. The top Si layer has the same orientation as the silicon substrate. The quality of the outermost portion of the Si top layer is important in device fabrication since it either can be used directly to build devices, or epitaxial Si may be grown on this layer. Therefore, careful characterization of the results of the ion implantation process is essential.


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