Essentials of Depth Dose Calculations for Clinical Oncologists

New formula for Calculation of Cobalt-60 Percent Depth Dose

Introduction:  On  the  basis  of  percent  depth  dose  (PDD)  calculation,  the  application  of  dosimetry  in  radiotherapy  has  an  important  role  to  play  in  reducing  the  chance  of  tumor  recurrence. The aim of this study is to introduce a new formula for calculating the centeral axis  percent depth doses of Cobalt-60 beam.   Materials and Methods: In the present study, based on ...

Essentials of Clinical Supervision

Essentials of Clinical Neurology

The book is well written and entertaining, providing both new interpretations of developmental stages for psychoanalysts and a good basic review of the fundamental psychoanalytic principles for those of us who are less familiar with these principles. The main body of the book describes in great detail rituals in several different Papua New Guinea tribes. These rituals are basically the same, wi...

Essentials of Clinical Biochemistry

It becomes clear that the assumption that no life is not worth saving must be evaluated in the context of competition for resources among various victimsnewborn infants and countless others. By arguing in the abstract, without consideration of these social and economic realities, the authors of these essays arrive at conclusions which have no practical value. The effort to save every handicappe...

Essentials of Neuroimaging for Clinical Practice

In this chapter I discuss the use of electroencephalography, event-related potentials, and magnetoencephalography in psychiatry. Of these three measures, electroencephalography is the only one that is currently used in standard psychiatric clinical practice, and even here, its main use is to exclude certain neurological disorders in the differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. Event-rel...