A virtual revolution is ongoing in the use of simulation technology for clinical purposes. When discussion of the potential use of virtual reality (VR) applications for human research and clinical intervention first emerged in the early 1990s, the technology needed to deliver on this “vision” was not in place. Consequently, during these early years VR suffered from a somewhat imbalanced “expect...

PURPOSE To investigate the feasibility of concurrent chemo radiation in locally advanced carcinoma cervix patients in our clinical setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS From Sept. 1st 2005 to Aug. 31st 2006, 102 patients of carcinoma cervix belonging to stage IIA to IV A were enrolled in the study. External beam radiation therapy was administered using Cobalt 60 teletherapy machine. Cisplatinum (40 ...

Seven years of experience in compensator intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) clinical implementation are presented. An inverse planning dose optimization algorithm was used to generate intensity modulation maps, which were delivered via either the compensator or segmental multileaf collimator (MLC) IMRT techniques. The in-house developed compensator-IMRT technique is presented with the focu...

Vaginal carcinoma is an uncommon malignancy and one of the few gynecologic malignancies that is still clinically staged. Clinical staging, which can be difficult in some instances, is potentially inaccurate, as it has been shown to be in early endometrial and ovarian carcinoma. In addition, clinical staging can result in over- or undertreatment of the disease. The lack of standardization of tre...

Development of radiation technology has resulted in increasing numbers of people working with it. Therefore it has increasingly been important to monitor the radiation in order to ensure public safety. Physical dosimetry plays an important role in monitoring. But a need arise for biological dosimetry where physical dosimetry is absent or its presence is insufficient. In this study Co-60 gamma r...