期刊
JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
卷 56, 期 6, 页码 1754-1758出版社
KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.3938/jkps.56.1754
关键词
Monte Carlo; Dose enhancement; Gold nanoparticle; Brachytherapy; MCNPX; Cisplatin
资金
- National Cancer Center, Korea [0910180]
- Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Sunkwang Atomic Energy Safety co., Ltd [2008-P-EP-HM-E-06-0000]
- Nuclear R&D Program in Korea through PEEP
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [2008-P-EP-HM-E-06-0000] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
Radiation dose enhancement by injection of a high atomic number (Z) material into tumor volumes has been studied for various radiation sources and different concentrations of gold nanoparticles. Brachytherapy employs low energy photons of less than similar to 0.5 MeV, which indeed is the optimal energy range for radiation dose enhancement by introduction of high-Z material. The present study uses the MCNPX (TM) code to estimate the dose enhancement by gold nanoparticles for the four common brachytherapy sources (Cs-137, Ir-192, I-121, and Pd-103). Additionally, cisplatin (H6Cl2N2Pt), a platinum-based chemotherapeutic drug, was used to evaluate the dose enhancement. The simulated source models were evaluated with reference to the calculated TG-43 parameter values. The dose enhancement in the tumor region clue to the gold nanoparticles and cisplatin was evaluated according to the dose enhancement factor (DEF). The maximum values of the average DEFs were found to be 1.03, 1.11, 3.43, and 2.17 for the Cs-137, Ir-192, I-125, and Pd-103 sources, respectively. The close enhancement values for the low-energy sources were significantly higher than those for the high-energy sources. The dose enhancement due to cisplatin was calculated by using the same approach and was found to be comparable to that of the gold nanoparticles. The maximum value of the average DEF for cisplatin was 1.12 for the 5% concentration level in water and a Ir-192 source. We confirmed that cisplatin could be applied to cancer therapy that combines chemotherapeutic drugs with radiation therapy. The results presented herein will be used to study dose enhancement in tumor regions using various radiation modalities with high atomic number materials.
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