TY - JOUR T1 - Evidence of Local Concentration of α-Particles from <sup>211</sup>At-Labeled Antibodies in Liver Metastasis Tissue JF - Journal of Nuclear Medicine JO - J Nucl Med SP - 497 LP - 501 DO - 10.2967/jnumed.118.216853 VL - 60 IS - 4 AU - Satoshi Kodaira AU - Yukie Morokoshi AU - Huizi Keiko Li AU - Teruaki Konishi AU - Mieko Kurano AU - Sumitaka Hasegawa Y1 - 2019/04/01 UR - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/60/4/497.abstract N2 - We investigated the local concentration of α-particles from 211At-labeled trastuzumab antibodies against human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 antigens in liver metastasis tissue of mice. Methods: Mice carrying metastatic cancer in their liver were injected with 211At-agent. After 12 h, the liver was removed and sliced, and 2 tissue samples of liver tissues without lesions and one containing metastatic lesions were mounted on the CR-39 plastic nuclear track detector. Microscope images of the tissues on the CR-39 were acquired. After irradiation for 31 h, the tissues were removed from the CR-39. A microscope image of α-particle tracks on the CR-39 was acquired after chemical etching. The positions of each tissue sample and the emitted α-particle tracks were adjusted to the same coordinates. Results: The positional distribution of α-particle tracks emitted from 211At was consistent within the tissue. The α-particle tracks were mainly allocated in the tumor region of the tissue. The absorbed dose in individual cells segmented by 10-μm intervals was obtained by the spectroscopic analysis of the linear-energy-transfer spectrum. The concentration efficiency—the track density ratio of α-particle tracks in the necrotized tissue, which was the tumor region, to the normal tissue—was found to be 6.0 ± 0.2. In the tumor region, the high–linear-energy-transfer α-particles deposited a large enough dose to cause lethal damage to the cancer cells. Conclusion: The total absorbed dose ranged from 1 to 7 Gy with a peak at around 2 Gy, which would correspond to a 2–3 times higher biologically equivalent dose because of the high relative biological effectiveness of the α-particles emitted from 211At. ER -