title: ESR investigation of sucrose radicals produced by particle irradiation.
abstract: We investigated sucrose radicals produced by heavy-ion irradiation with various linear energy transfer (LETs) and the possibility for a sucrose electron spin resonance (ESR) dosimeter. The impact of heavy ions on sucrose produced sucrose radicals, which were measured by ESR. The obtained spectral pattern was the same as that for helium (He) ions, carbon (C) ions, neon (Ne) ions, iron (Fe) ions, and gamma-ray irradiation. Identical spectra were measured after 1 year, but the initial intensities decreased by a few percent when the samples were kept in ESR tubes with the caps at ambient temperature. The total spin concentration obtained by heavy-ion irradiation had a linear relation with the absorbed dose, and correlated logarithmically with the LET. Qualitative ESR analyses showed that the production of sucrose radicals depended on both the particle identity and the LET at the same dose. The production of spin concentration by He ions was the most sensitive to LET. Empirical relations between the LET and the spin yield for various particles imply that the LET at a certain dose can be estimated by the spin concentration. Therefore, the present ESR results imply that sucrose can be used to monitor the absorbed dose and the LET of particle irradiation.
authors.affiliation: RI Research Center, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan. nakagawa@fmu.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kouichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D005609:Free Radicals / Q000737:chemistry; D005720:Gamma Rays; D020450:Heavy Ions; D006371:Helium; D007477:Ions; D007501:Iron; D018499:Linear Energy Transfer; D009356:Neon; D010315:Particle Accelerators; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing; D013395:Sucrose / Q000737:chemistry / Q000528:radiation effects*; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D005609:Free Radicals; D007477:Ions; D006371:Helium; D009356:Neon; D013395:Sucrose; D002244:Carbon; D007501:Iron