Introduction The increasing practice of interventional fluoroscopy in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease has risen attention to improve radiation protection of patients and cardiologists in these relatively high dose techniques. Therefore, nowadays there is an emphasis on the measurement of radiation dose received by patients and cardiologists arising from the relevant procedures...

Purpose This study is intended to compare dose-volume parameters evaluated using different forward planning- optimization techniques, involving two applicator systems in intracavitary brachytherapy for cervical cancer. It looks for the best applicator-optimization combination to fulfill recommended dose-volume objectives in different high-dose-rate (HDR) fractionation schedules. Material and ...

We investigate the role of cycles structures (i.e., subsets of clauses of the form l̄1 ∨ l2, l̄1 ∨ l3, l̄2 ∨ l̄3) in the quality of the lower bound (LB) of modern MaxSAT solvers. Given a cycle structure, we have two options: (i) use the cycle structure just to detect inconsistent subformulas in the underestimation component, and (ii) replace the cycle structure with l̄1, l1 ∨ l̄2 ∨ l̄3, l̄1 ∨ l2 ∨ l3 b...

In the paper, we propose a newly registration method for multi-temporal image registration. Multi-temporal image registration has two difficulties: one is how to design matching strategy to gain enough initial correspondence points. Because the wrong matching correspondence points are unavoidable, we are unable to know how many outliers, so the second difficult of registration is how to calcula...

investigation have been carried out on the variation of γ-radiation dose (produced by radium daughters), due to changes of temperature, in order to evaluate its effects on living substances specially on man and to study to evaluate its effects on living substances specially on man and to study the variation of observed dose and its effects, following measurements have been done in five differen...

We revisit existence and stability of two-pulse solutions in the fifth-order Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation with two new results. First, we modify the Petviashvili method of successive iterations for numerical (spectral) approximations of pulses and prove convergence of iterations in a neighborhood of two-pulse solutions. Second, we prove structural stability of embedded eigenvalues of negati...

we describe a variational problem on a surface under a constraintof geometrical character. necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence ofbifurcation points are provided. in local coordinates the problem corresponds toa quasilinear elliptic boundary value problem. the problem can be consideredas a physical model for several applications referring to continuum medium andmembranes.

AIMS To assess steady-state effects of therapeutic and supra-therapeutic doses of prucalopride on the QT interval using a novel design involving a parallel placebo group with nested crossover for positive control. METHODS A double-blind, double-dummy, placebo- and active-controlled study was conducted in 120 healthy male and female volunteers (NCT00903747). Volunteers were randomized to recei...

Background: The Monte Carlo (MC) method is not only used for dose calculations around brachytherapy sources but also for benchmarking treatment planning systems (TPS) calculations. Materials and Methods: Three 60Co sources of GZP6 brachytherapy unit were simulated using MCNP4C MC Code. The radial dose functions were calculated by MC method and GZP6 TPS and were compared. Results: There was a go...