Abstract
Artificial pulmonary metastases of a mouse fibrosarcoma were produced by the intravenous injection of 10(4) cells admixed with 2 X 10(6) plastic microspheres into mice preconditioned with 600 rad whole-body irradiation 24 hours earlier. Four days after injection of tumour cells, mice were irradiated with neutrons generated by 50 MeV deuterons on Be at the Texas A & M Variable Energy Cyclotron or with 137Cs gamma rays. One, three or six fractions of radiation were delivered on a three-hour fractionation schedule. Surviving lung metastases were scored macroscopically 16 days after irradiation. The data indicate that: (1) the RBE (n/gamma) was in the range 1.6-2.6 depending on the size of dose per fraction; (2) the slopes of the gamma-ray curves decreased with increasing fraction number (i.e. decreasing fraction size); (3) the slopes of the neutron curves decreased only slightly with increasing fraction number (and decreasing fraction size); (4) no additional sparing was achieved by further fractionating doses of neutrons of 300 rad or less.
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