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Alcocer Avila, Mario Enrique
Universite de Bordeaux, Ecole Doctorale sciences physiques et de l'ingenieur, astrophysique, plasmas, nucleaire, Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications - CELIA, 351 cours de la Liberation, 33405 Talence (France); Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Instituto de Fisica Rosario (Mexico)2021
Universite de Bordeaux, Ecole Doctorale sciences physiques et de l'ingenieur, astrophysique, plasmas, nucleaire, Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications - CELIA, 351 cours de la Liberation, 33405 Talence (France); Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Instituto de Fisica Rosario (Mexico)2021
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[en] Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) is a cancer treatment modality in which radioactive isotopes are coupled to tumor-specific carrier molecules for the selective irradiation of tumor cells. The aim of this thesis is to provide an accurate description of the pattern of energy deposit by some of the most promising Auger electron- and alpha particle-emitting radionuclides currently considered for TRT, by means of accurate Monte Carlo track structure (MCTS) simulations. As part of this doctoral work, the TILDA-V code was extended and improved to include the full slowing-down of alpha particles in water. Radiation transport and dosimetry studies were performed to validate as a whole the capabilities of the latest version of TILDA-V for simulating the interactions of protons, alpha particles and electrons with biological matter. The code was extensively benchmarked against other numerical tools and available experimental data with satisfactory results. The effect on the simulations of changing the description of the biological medium (water versus DNA) was analyzed in detail as well. Furthermore, the various radionuclides of interest were evaluated by computing the absorbed dose to isolated tumor cells and to a small cell cluster representing a micrometastasis. The results of the present work will be valuable to the community of nuclear medicine to understand the relative merits of various radionuclides and to guide the choice of the most adapted radionuclide to arm a targeting molecule, taking into account the clinical setting in oncology. (author)
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La radiotherapie interne vectorisee (RIV) est une technique pour traiter le cancer dans laquelle des isotopes radioactifs sont couples a des molecules vectrices capables de cibler specifiquement les cellules tumorales pour les irradier. Le but de cette these est de fournir une description precise des depots d'energie induits dans la matiere biologique par les radionucleides emetteurs d'electrons Auger et de particules alpha les plus prometteurs actuellement pour la RIV, au moyen de simulations Monte Carlo de structure de traces. Dans le cadre de cette these, le code TILDA-V a ete etendu et ameliore pour inclure le ralentissement complet des particules alpha dans l'eau. Des etudes de transport et de dosimetrie des rayonnements ont ete realisees pour valider dans leur ensemble les capacites de la version la plus recente de TILDA-V a simuler les interactions des protons, des particules alpha et des electrons avec la matiere biologique. Les predictions du code ont ete largement comparees aux resultats obtenus avec d'autres outils numeriques et aux donnees experimentales disponibles, avec des resultats tres satisfaisants. L'effet sur les simulations de la description du milieu biologique (l'eau par opposition a l'ADN) a egalement ete analyse de facon detaillee. De plus, les differents radionucleides d'interet ont ete evalues en calculant la dose absorbee a des cellules tumorales isolees et a un petit amas cellulaire representant une micrometastase. Les resultats du present travail seront precieux pour la communaute de medecine nucleaire pour comprendre les merites relatifs des differents radionucleides et guider le choix du radionucleide le plus adapte pour armer une molecule vectrice, en tenant compte du contexte clinique en oncologie. (auteur)Original Title
Modelisation Monte Carlo en radiotherapie interne vectorisee de micrometastases
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12 Mar 2021; 267 p; 374 refs.; Available from the INIS Liaison Officer for France, see the INIS website for current contact and E-mail addresses; These Docteur de l'Universite de Bordeaux
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ABSORBED RADIATION DOSES, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, AUGER EFFECT, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT, COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, DOSIMETRY, ELASTIC SCATTERING, ELECTRON CAPTURE DECAY, EXCITATION, IONIZATION, METASTASES, MONTE CARLO METHOD, RADIOEMBOLIZATION, SPATIAL DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS, STOPPING POWER, TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS, TUMOR CELLS
ANIMAL CELLS, BETA DECAY, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BRACHYTHERAPY, CALCULATION METHODS, CROSS SECTIONS, DECAY, DOSES, ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS, ISOTOPES, MEDICINE, NUCLEAR DECAY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE, RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS, RADIATION DOSES, RADIATION TRANSPORT, RADIOISOTOPES, RADIOLOGY, RADIOTHERAPY, SCATTERING, SIMULATION, THERAPY
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