Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images have inaccurate CT numbers because of scattered photons. Thus, quantitative analysis of scattered photons that affect an electron density (ED) curve and calculated doses may be effective information to achieve CBCT-based radiation treatment planning. We quantitatively evaluated the effect of scattered photons on the accuracy of dose calculations from ...

Shlomo Dotan, MD Department of Ophthalmology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel ABSTRACT Purpose: To demonstrate that slow-growing intracranial suprasellar mass lesions can be associated with optic disc cupping, clinically indistinguishable from glaucomatous optic neuropathy. Cases: At a neuro-ophthalmology tertiary clinic, a retrospective chart review identified four...

BACKGROUND Both cupping therapy and acupuncture have been used in China for a long time, and their target indications are pain-related conditions. There is no systematic review comparing the effectiveness of these two therapies. OBJECTIVES To compare the beneficial effectiveness and safety between cupping therapy and acupuncture for pain-related conditions to provide evidence for clinical pra...

OBJECTIVE To compare therapeutic effects of acupuncture, moving cupping, blood-letting puncture and medicine on chloasma. METHODS One hundred and seventy-six cases of chloasma were randomly divided into two groups. The acupuncture, moving cupping, blood-letting puncture group was treated with acupuncture at Ashi points, Xuehai (SP 10), Sanyinjiao (SP 6), moving cup at The Governor Vessel and ...

UNLABELLED To observe the clinical effect of drug cupping therapy (DCT, cupping therapy with pingchuan ointment made by the authors themselves in the cups) on chronic asthmatic bronchitis (CAB) during the protracted period, and explore its effect on immune function. METHODS Seventy-seven patients were randomly divided into two groups:the treated group (n=40) treated by orally taken Liuwei Dih...

BACKGROUND In conditions such as phantom limb pain and low back pain body image is distorted. This qualitative study investigates body image in patients with chronic non-specific neck pain (CNP), its influence on their everyday life and any changes linked to traditional cupping therapy. METHODS The study was conducted with a convenience sample of 6 patients with CNP from a larger randomised c...

Methods: Complete examination, SAP, shortwavelength automated perimetry (SWAP), frequency doubling technology (FDT), scanning laser polarimetry (GDx-VCC), and optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), optic disc, and macula were performed. Glaucomatous optic neuropathy was defined as cup-disc asymmetry between fellow eyes of greater than 0.2, rim ...

The use of cupping therapy prior to sports events has increased in popularity, with limited evidence support its efficacy. purpose this study was evaluate the efficacy dry and wet on subsequent Wingate anaerobic test (WAnT) performance. Twelve trained men participated repeated-measures randomized crossover (age 24.9 ± 4.8 years; body mass index 27.6 14.3 kg.m-2). Participants were familiarized ...

Say that Y has the strong random anticupping property if there is a set A such that for every Martin-Löf random set R