Tolerance of Normal Rabbit Facial Bones and Teeth to Synchrotron X-Ray Microbeam Irradiation

Laissue, Jean Albert; Barré, Sébastien; Bartzsch, Stefan; Blattmann, Hans; Bouchet, Audrey M.; Djonov, Valentin G.; Haberthür, David; Hlushchuk, Ruslan; Kaser-Hotz, Barbara; Laissue, Pierre Philippe; LeDuc, Géraldine; Reding, Susanne Oswald; Serduc, Raphaël (2022). Tolerance of Normal Rabbit Facial Bones and Teeth to Synchrotron X-Ray Microbeam Irradiation. Radiation research, 197(3), pp. 233-241. Radiation Research Society 10.1667/RADE-21-00032.1

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Microbeam radiation therapy, an alternative radiosurgical treatment under preclinical investigation, aims to safely treat muzzle tumors in pet animals. This will require data on the largely unknown radiation toxicity of microbeam arrays for bones and teeth. To this end, the muzzle of six young adult New Zealand rabbits was irradiated by a lateral array of microplanar beamlets with peak entrance doses of 200, 330 or 500 Gy. The muzzles were examined 431 days postirradiation by computed microtomographic imaging (micro-CT) ex vivo, and extensive histopathology. The boundaries of the radiation field were identified histologically by microbeam tracks in cartilage and other tissues. There was no radionecrosis of facial bones in any rabbit. Conversely, normal incisor teeth exposed to peak entrance doses of 330 Gy or 500 Gy developed marked caries-like damage, whereas the incisors of the two rabbits exposed to 200 Gy remained unscathed. A single, unidirectional array of microbeams with a peak entrance dose ≤200 Gy (valley dose14 Gy) did not damage normal bone, teeth and soft tissues of the muzzle of normal rabbits longer than one year after irradiation. Because of that, Microbeam radiation therapy of muzzle tumors in pet animals is unlikely to cause sizeable damage to normal teeth, bone and soft tissues, if a single array as used here delivers a limited entrance dose of 200 Gy and a valley dose of ≤14 Gy.

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