BACKGROUND A novel radioactive 125I seed-loaded biliary stent has been used for patients with malignant biliary obstruction. However, the dosimetric characteristics of the stents remain unclear. Therefore, we aimed to describe the dosimetry of the stents of different lengths - with different number as well as activities of 125I seeds. METHODS The radiation dosimetry of three representative ra...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this work was to determine the radiation dose received by infants from radiographic exposure and the contribution from scatter radiation due to radiographic exposure of other infants in the same room. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated the entrance skin doses (ESDs) and effective doses of 23 infants with a gestational age as low as 28 weeks. ESDs were dete...

The aims of this study were to characterize reinforced metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) dosimeters to assess the measurement uncertainty, single exposure low-dose limit with acceptable accuracy, and the number of exposures required to attain the corresponding limit of the thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD). The second aim was to characterize MOSFET dosimeter sensitivit...

Digital technologies, as mediators and facilitators of learning, are altering tertiary education; how when it occurs, what entails, who has access, capabilities skills acknowledged. badges one such technological tool. Created to acknowledge competency, skill or achievement they have been adopted for a variety purposes including motivate learners, recognise accredit learning. Internationally, th...

A Review of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. by Stuart Schrader.

PURPOSE In 2008, a national intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) dosimetry intercomparison was carried out for all 23 radiation oncology institutions in Switzerland. It was the aim to check the treatment chain focused on the planning, dose calculation, and irradiation process. METHODS A thorax phantom with inhomogeneities was used, in which thermoluminescence dosimeter (TLD) and ioniz...

Background: Most of our current understanding of the biological effects of exposure to ionising radiation is based on conventional cytogenetic techniques, which enable us to determine the relationship between chromosomal aberration and dose received by radiation workers. However, conventional techniques have numerous limitations and chromosomal aberrations can be easily missed. Since FISH plays...

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 have drawn attention to the use of wireless technology in order to locate survivors of structural collapse. We propose to construct an ad hoc network of wireless smart badges in order to acquire information from trapped survivors. We investigate the energy efficient routing problem that arises in such a netwo...

This paper surveys several recent and ongoing projects from the MIT Media Lab’s Responsive Environments Group that leverage compact, low-cost inertial sensing into scenarios that range from wearable biomotion measurement platforms to interactive badges and musical controllers.