title: Three-dimensional tumor dosimetry for radioimmunotherapy using serial autoradiography.
abstract: Three-dimensional dose distributions have been calculated for LS174T human colon cancer xenografts in athymic nude mice treated with 131I-labeled 17-1A monoclonal antibody. Autoradiographs were made for fifteen to twenty 32-micron-thick representative serial sections of tumors removed 1 and 4 days postinjection. Film density readings were converted to activity density and entered into a radiotherapy treatment planning system. Three-dimensional dose distributions were obtained by summing the dose contributions due to each voxel of uniform activity. Isodoserate distributions and dose-rate-volume histograms for representative tumors at 1 and 4 days following 131I-labeled 17-1A injection showed a progressive change from a predominantly surface deposition (day 1) to a more volumetric deposition (day 4). Average tumor doses calculated using the assumptions of uniform source distribution and local dose deposition resulted in a poor estimation of the cumulative dose because of the significant time-dependent dose-rate nonuniformities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Roberson
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Buchsbaum
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Heidorn
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Ten Haken
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D016499:Radioimmunotherapy; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous