Introduction Evaluation of the delivered dose of externally wedged photon beams by external diode dosimeters during the treatment process requires the estimation of exit surface dose correction factors in various wedge angles and field sizes. Materials and Methods A system of absorbed dose evaluation, using p-type diode dosimeters placed on the exit surface of a phantom, was characterized for e...

Despite the fact that common surgical techniques for the treatment of genu varum usually correct the malalignment in the affected knee, these methods have significant complications and cause problems in the long term. Retro-tubercle opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy is among the newer techniques for the treatment of genu varum. The goal of this study was to compare the results of retro-tuberc...

Siemens Virtual Wedge factor may drift significantly due to increase in output as dose rate decreases. This variation of output is caused by defective sample and hold boards in the dosimetry circuit due to radiation damage. In this note, we present a simple model based on the principle of Virtual Wedge operation and the measured output variation with dose rate to quantitatively describe Virtual...

OBJECTIVE Lateral wedge insoles are a potential simple treatment for medial knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients by reducing the external knee adduction moment (EKAM). However in some patients, an increase in their EKAM is seen. Understanding the role of the ankle joint complex in the response to lateral wedge insoles is critical in understanding and potentially identifying why some patients respo...

We present our recent results on the existence and regularity of shock reflectiondiffraction configurations by a wedge up to the sonic wedge angle, which is the von Neumann sonic conjecture. The problem is first formulated as a boundary value problem for a second-order nonlinear partial differential equation of mixed hyperbolic-elliptic type in an unbounded domain. Then the boundary value probl...

Introduction: The head scatter factor (Sc) is one of the important parameters for monitor unit (MU) calculation. There are multiple factors that impact the Sc values, such as, head structures, back scattering in to dose monitoring chambers, wedges and so on. This study aimed to investigate the variations of SC with different build-up cap materials, wall thickness, Source to ...

We develop the theory of truncated wedge schemes, a higher dimensional analog of jet schemes. We prove some basic properties and give an irreducibility criterion for truncated wedge schemes of a locally complete intersection variety analogous to Mustaţǎ’s for jet schemes. We show that the reduced subscheme structure of a truncated wedge scheme of any monomial scheme is itself a monomial scheme ...

Background: In radiotherapy, wedge filters are used for optimizing the tumor dose distribution in patients. The attenuation in beam intensity due to the presence of wedge filter is compensated by means of a wedge factor measured at the central axis of the beam. The field size, depth and SSD dependence of wedge factor have been assessed for 9MV radiations of Neptun PC linear accelerator. Materia...

A new style of charge-separation position-sensitive detector has been tested which has similar cost benefits as other charge-separation devices but has an error-awareness capability to provide an increased collection rate. The wedge-on-wedge anode is similar to the wedge-and-strip anode except that the four electrodes possess both wedge and strip character. This provides additional charge infon...