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The biomedical sensor Cell-Fit-HD4D, reveals individual tumor cell fate in response to microscopic ion deposition.

Niklas, M.; Schlegel, J.; Liew, H.; Walsh, D.; Zimmermann, F.; Dzyubachyk, O.; Holland-Letz, T.; Rahmanian, S.; Greilich, S.; Runz, A.; Debus, J.; Abdollahi, A.

2020-03-13 cancer biology
10.1101/2020.03.12.987347 bioRxiv
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Here we present the biomedical sensor cell-fluorescent ion track hybrid detector4D (Cell-Fit-HD4D) to reveal individual tumor cell fate in response to microscopic ion deposition in ion beam therapy. The sensor enables long-term monitoring of single tumor cells after clinical ion beam irradiation in combination with single-cell dosimetry. Cell-Fit-HD4D is read out in-situ by conventional optical microscopy. Direct visualization of a clinical ion beam is hereby possible for the first time. The possibility to reveal fate of individual cells from a cell cohort demonstrates that our biomedical sensor clearly differs from conventional experiments that characterize cellular response after radiation on a population level. Cell-Fit-HD4D is therefore used to mimics the clinical situation of a defined tumor depth during tumor treatment by ion beam therapy. Our biomedical sensor is able to provide crucial input for current mechanistic approaches to biophysical modelling of the effect of ionizing radiation on biological matter. In the clinical context, obtaining multi-dimensional physical and biological information on individual tumor cells is an important step to further transform ion beam therapy into a highly precise discipline within oncology.

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