Repair kinetic considerations in particle beam radiotherapy.
OBJECTIVE
A second-order repair kinetics model is developed to predict damage repair rates following low or high linear energy transfer (LET) irradiations and to assess the amount of unrepairable damage produced by such radiations. The model is a further development of an earlier version designed to test if low-LET radiation repair processes could be quantified in terms of second-order kinetics. The newer version allows calculation of both the repair rate of the proportion of DNA damages that repair according to second-order kinetics and the proportion of DNA damages that do not repair.


METHODS
The original and present models are intercompared in terms of their goodness-of-fit to a number of data sets obtained from different ion beams. The analysis demonstrates that the present model provides a better fit to the data in all cases studied.


RESULTS
The proportions of unrepairable damage created by radiations of different LET predicted by the new model correspond well with previous studies on the increased effectiveness of high-LET radiations in inducing reproductive cell death. The results show that the original model may underestimate the proportion of unrepaired damage at any given time after its creation as well as failing to predict very slow or unrepairable damage components, which may result from high-LET irradiation.


CONCLUSIONS
It is suggested that the second-order model presented here offers a more realistic view of the patterns of repair in cell lines or tissues exposed to high-LET radiation.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 30 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. acarabe@partners.org
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D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000502:physiology*; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D006801:Humans; D018499:Linear Energy Transfer; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018787:Radiation Oncology / Q000379:methods*
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