Singlet oxygen explicit dosimetry to predict long-term local tumor control for Photofrin-mediated photodynamic therapy

Rozhin Penjweini; Michele M. Kim; Yi Hong Ong; Timothy C. Zhu

doi:10.1117/12.2251015

8 February 2017 Singlet oxygen explicit dosimetry to predict long-term local tumor control for Photofrin-mediated photodynamic therapy

Rozhin Penjweini, Michele M. Kim, Yi Hong Ong, Timothy C. Zhu

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Proceedings Volume 10047, Optical Methods for Tumor Treatment and Detection: Mechanisms and Techniques in Photodynamic Therapy XXVI; 1004711 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2251015
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an established modality for the treatment of cancer, current dosimetric quantities do not account for the variations in PDT oxygen consumption for different fluence rates (φ). In this study we examine the efficacy of reacted singlet oxygen concentration ([¹O₂]_rx) to predict long-term local control rate (LCR) for Photofrin-mediated PDT. Radiation-induced fibrosarcoma (RIF) tumors in the right shoulders of female C3H mice are treated with different in-air fluences of 225-540 J/cm² and in-air fluence rate (φair) of 50 and 75 mW/cm² at 5 mg/kg Photofrin and a drug-light interval of 24 hours using a 1 cm diameter collimated laser beam at 630 nm wavelength. [1O2]rx is calculated by using a macroscopic model based on explicit dosimetry of Photofrin concentration, tissue optical properties, tissue oxygenation and blood flow changes during PDT. The tumor volume of each mouse is tracked for 90 days after PDT and Kaplan-Meier analyses for LCR are performed based on a tumor volume ≤100 mm3, for the four dose metrics light fluence, photosensitizer photobleaching rate, PDT dose and [¹O₂]_rx. PDT dose is defined as a temporal integral of photosensitizer concentration and Φ at a 3 mm tumor depth. φ is calculated throughout the treatment volume based on Monte-Carlo simulation and measured tissue optical properties. Our preliminary studies show that [¹O₂]_rx is the best dosimetric quantity that can predict tumor response and correlate with LCR. Moreover, [¹O₂]_rx calculated using the blood flow changes was in agreement with [¹O₂]_rx calculated based on the actual tissue oxygenation.

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Rozhin Penjweini, Michele M. Kim, Yi Hong Ong, and Timothy C. Zhu "Singlet oxygen explicit dosimetry to predict long-term local tumor control for Photofrin-mediated photodynamic therapy", Proc. SPIE 10047, Optical Methods for Tumor Treatment and Detection: Mechanisms and Techniques in Photodynamic Therapy XXVI, 1004711 (8 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2251015

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