Self-esteem involves the evaluative and affective dimensions of self-concept. It could be influenced by stress situations such as diseases or injuries, especially in the period of puberty and adolescence. The aim of this study was to establish the influence of isolated long tubular bone limbs' fractures in children and adolescents and type of its treatment (conservative or active surgical treat...

MIM Symphony is a recently introduced low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy treatment planning system (TPS). We evaluated the dosimetric and planning accuracy of this new TPS compared to the universally used VariSeed TPS. For dosimetric evaluation of the MIM Symphony version 5.4 TPS, we compared dose calculations from the MIM Symphony TPS with the formalism recommended by the American Associatio...

objectives: the aim of this study was to verify the treatment planning systems (tpss). the next aim was to validate imsure qa software for patient-specific qa in radiotherapy clinics.  material and methods: we used imsure qa software (standard imaging, v 3.5) for verification of 92 non-imrt plans (540 fields) in 10 radiotherapy clinics. to validate the imsure, dose measurement was performed in ...

Bulblet initiation, including adventitious bud initiation and bulblet formation, is a crucial process for lily other bulbous flowers that are commercially propagated by vegetative means. Here, hybrid strategy combining Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) full-length sequencing Illumina RNA (RNA-seq), high-quality transcripts of L. brownii ( Lb ) its variety, var. giganteum Lbg ), during in vitro were ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by the receptive syconia of Ficus species play a vital role in attracting highly species-specific pollinating fig wasps. The components VOCs vary considerably among species, but are generally dominated few common terpenoid or specific proportions several compounds. Terpene synthase (TPS) is main source and diverse terpenoids, evolution TPS gene family ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare dose distributions from three different algorithms with the x-ray Voxel Monte Carlo (XVMC) calculations, in actual computed tomography (CT) scans for use in stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) of small lung cancers. METHODS Slow CT scan of 20 patients was performed and the internal target volume (ITV) was delineated on Pinnacle3. All plans were ...