Treatment of moving targets can result in local over and under dosage due to interference effects of the beam application and the motion of the target, so called interplay. Rescanning is one option to mitigate effects of tumor motion in scanned particle therapy [1, 2]. Rescanning is based on statistical methods that show that the dosimetric effect of interplay will average and lead to a homogen...

The key feature of home kinesitherapy is real-time monitoring of movements and reacting to a wrong behavior. That is why the very important technology challenge is to apply a proper effective and efficient motion capture technique. A system dedicated for such a therapy should be based on a digital human model and involve motion capture techniques. First attempts for such systems have already ap...

We present a framework for combining a cardiac motion atlas with non-motion data. The atlas represents cardiac cycle motion across a number of subjects in a common space based on rich motion descriptors capturing 3D displacement, velocity, strain and strain rate. The non-motion data are derived from a variety of sources such as imaging, electrocardiogram (ECG) and clinical reports. Once in the ...

Animals therapy serves as a unique tool for caregivers in both eldercare and therapeutic situations. Music therapy is also an established therapeutic practice. Robot therapy is a new field of research where robots serve a similar function as therapy animals. This paper looks at robot bird companions. The aim is to leverage the benefits of both animal therapy and music therapy. The robot compani...

background: peritendinous adhesions after repairing an injury to the digital flexor tendons are a major problem in hand surgery. non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug therapy may affect tendon healing and the development of peritendinous adhesions. the aim of this study was to evaluate ibuprofen effect in patients function after flexor tendon surgical repair.   method: thirty-five patients, who ...

osteoid osteoma is a benign bone tumor and accounts for 10% of benign tumors. almost any bones can be involved but half of cases involving femur or tibia. osteoid osteoma is a rare tumor of the scapula with only 18 reported cases in the literature. we presented a case of osteoid osteoma of the scapula in right shoulder in angle of coracoid and geloneid in a 34- year old woman. she had right rad...

Introduction:   The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of respiratory motion during radiation therapy in patient with lung cancer and comparison of dosimetric parameters between Intensity modulation radiation therapy and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy in lung cancer.   Materials and Methods:   Two CT scan was performred for each pati...

PURPOSE The effects of respiratory motion on the tumor dose can be divided into the gradient and interplay effects. While the interplay effect is likely to average out over a large number of fractions, it may play a role in hypofractionated [stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)] treatments. This subject has been extensively studied for intensity modulated radiation therapy but less so for...

In this project, we are exploring how to support therapists who use commercially available motion-based videogames in their therapies for people that have had a brain injury. Our exploratory work, that included interviews and observations at the Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH) in Chicago, Illinois, exposed a need for informational tools to help therapists make evidence-based decisions abou...