Relating proton LETd to biological response of parotid and submandibular glands using PSMA-PET in clinical patients

IF 2.7 3区医学 Q3 ONCOLOGY Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI:10.1016/j.ctro.2024.100910

Dirk Wagenaar , Vineet Mohan , Johannes A. Langendijk , Roel J.H.M. Steenbakkers , Wouter V. Vogel , Stefan Both

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Abstract

Background and purpose

A recent study investigated the use of PSMA-PET in monitoring loss of secretory cells in salivary glands of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients. Previously, a dose–effect relation has been formulated to the PSMA-PET uptake in salivary glands. The aim of this study was to derive a proton RBE model from the PSMA-PET uptake in salivary glands after proton therapy of HNC patients.

Materials and methods

Six patients treated with proton therapy were included. These patients received a PET-CT scan using ⁶⁸Ga (N = 1) or ¹⁸F (N = 5) PSMA before treatment (baseline) and one month after the last fraction (follow-up). Physical dose (D), D·LET_d and the follow-up PSMA-PET scan were deformed to the baseline PET-CT using deformable image registration. Parotid and submandibular gland delineations were adjusted to include voxels which had an uptake of ≥ 5 g/ml in the baseline PSMA-PET scan.

Results

The average RBE-LET slope was 0.075 [0.009; 0.125] (keV/μm)^-1 (mean [95 %CI]) for parotid and submandibular glands combined. When analyzing parotid or submandibular glands separately the RBE-LET curve slope varies with two and five patients showing a positive RBE-LET slope when only analyzing parotid or submandibular glands respectively.

Conclusion

Our study did not find clear evidence of an increased RBE in parotid and submandibular glands with increasing LET_d. On average an LET_d effect was observed, however our sample size was too small to clearly define an RBE-LET relation. A larger cohort scanned at later time intervals could shed more light on this issue.

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