TY - JOUR
T1 - Radiation-induced lung toxicity in mice irradiated in a strong magnetic field
AU - Rubinstein, Ashley E.
AU - Gay, Skylar
AU - Peterson, Christine B.
AU - Kingsley, Charles V.
AU - Tailor, Ramesh C.
AU - Pollard-Larkin, Julianne M.
AU - Melancon, Adam D.
AU - Followill, David S.
AU - Court, Laurence E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Rubinstein et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - Strong magnetic fields affect radiation dose deposition in MRI-guided radiation therapy systems, particularly at interfaces between tissues of differing densities such as those in the thorax. In this study, we evaluated the impact of a 1.5 T magnetic field on radiation-induced lung damage in C57L/J mice. We irradiated 140 mice to the whole thorax with parallel-opposed Co-60 beams to doses of 0, 9.0, 10.0, 10.5, 11.0, 12.0, or 13.0 Gy (20 mice per dose group). Ten mice per dose group were irradiated while a 1.5 T magnetic field was applied transverse to the radiation beam and ten mice were irradiated with the magnetic field set to 0 T. We compared survival and noninvasive assays of radiation-induced lung damage, namely respiratory rate and metrics derived from thoracic cone-beam CTs, between the two sets of mice. We report two main results. First, the presence of a transverse 1.5 T field during irradiation had no impact on survival of C57L/J mice. Second, there was a small but statistically significant effect on noninvasive assays of radiation-induced lung damage. These results provide critical safety data for the clinical introduction of MRI-guided radiation therapy systems.
AB - Strong magnetic fields affect radiation dose deposition in MRI-guided radiation therapy systems, particularly at interfaces between tissues of differing densities such as those in the thorax. In this study, we evaluated the impact of a 1.5 T magnetic field on radiation-induced lung damage in C57L/J mice. We irradiated 140 mice to the whole thorax with parallel-opposed Co-60 beams to doses of 0, 9.0, 10.0, 10.5, 11.0, 12.0, or 13.0 Gy (20 mice per dose group). Ten mice per dose group were irradiated while a 1.5 T magnetic field was applied transverse to the radiation beam and ten mice were irradiated with the magnetic field set to 0 T. We compared survival and noninvasive assays of radiation-induced lung damage, namely respiratory rate and metrics derived from thoracic cone-beam CTs, between the two sets of mice. We report two main results. First, the presence of a transverse 1.5 T field during irradiation had no impact on survival of C57L/J mice. Second, there was a small but statistically significant effect on noninvasive assays of radiation-induced lung damage. These results provide critical safety data for the clinical introduction of MRI-guided radiation therapy systems.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0205803
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0205803
M3 - Article
C2 - 30444887
AN - SCOPUS:85056571520
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 13
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 11
M1 - e0205803
ER -