Compensating for respiratory motion is a key challenge for stereotactic body radiation therapy. To overcome latencies in the systems, prediction of future motion is necessary. This is related to the assumption of a stable correlation between external and internal motion. We present a new application for on-line model checking to introduce fail-safety to respiratory motion prediction and show it...

Introduction Positron emission tomography (PET) allows to assess the relevant parameters of the applied dose distribution in ion beam therapy. It has been clinically implemented but only for the treatment of static targets. The planned application of hadron therapy to intra-fractional moving tumor sites demands an upgrade of the dose monitoring system in terms of regarding the shifted decay loc...

Manipulation under anesthesia (MUA) is performed for knee stiffness following a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) when nonoperative treatments fail. It is important to develop an optimal outpatient physical therapy protocol following an MUA, to avoid a repeat procedure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare: (1) range of motion and (2) the rate of repeat MUA in patients who either u...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to explore the effects of action observation therapy on motor function of upper extremity, activities of daily living, and motion evoked potential in cerebral infarction patients. METHOD Cerebral infarction survivors were randomly assigned to an experimental group (28 patients) or a control group (25 patients). The conventional rehabilitation treatments we...

Large fraction radiation therapy offers a shorter course of treatment and radiobiological advantages for prostate cancer treatment. The CyberKnife is an attractive technology for delivering large fraction doses based on the ability to deliver highly conformal radiation therapy to moving targets. In addition to intra-fractional translational motion (left-right, superior-inferior, and anterior-po...

BACKGROUND Various manual therapy procedures are increasingly more often being used in the treatment of shoulder complex dysfunctions. The objective of the present study was to investigate whether manual therapy can improve the range of motion in the glenohumeral joint and alleviate pain in patients with chronic rotator cuff injuries MATERIAL AND METHODS The participants were randomly assigne...

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to report the effect hominis placenta pharmacopuncture and chuna manual therapy in patients with frozen shoulder.Methods: Frozen shoulder was treated therapy, overall pain measured by visual analog scale (VAS), range motion (ROM) movement evaluated measuring passive abduction external rotation active hand blade test.Results: After treatment, reduced, ROM...

Tumors in the chest and abdomen move during respiration. The ability of conventional radiation therapy systems to compensate for respiratory motion by moving the radiation source is inherently limited. Since safety margins currently used in radiation therapy increase the radiation dose by a very large amount, an accurate tracking method for following the motion of the tumor is of the utmost cli...

Tumors in the chest and abdomen move during respiration. The ability of conventional radiation therapy systems to compensate for respiratory motion by moving the radiation source is inherently limited. Since safety margins currently used in radiation therapy increase the radiation dose by a very large amount, an accurate tracking method for following the motion of the tumor is of the utmost cli...