background: in the current study the effect of shielded colpostat on rectum received dose was calculated in cervical brachytherapy using monte carlo (mc) method. materials and methods: two 60co sources of gzp6 brachytherapy unit used for intracavitary treatments were simulated using mcnpx monte carlo code. also the two types of colpostats including shielded and unshielded were simulated inside ...

The survival of thyroid allografts in mice was prolonged by either holding the grafts in vitro culture for 20 to 27 days or by cobalt-60 irradiation of the donor 2 days before transplantation with or without the intravenous injection of colloidal carbon just before removing the thyroid from the donor. In both cases the rejection process was restored by an intravenous injection of recipients wi...

Technical Papers Relation of Prothrombin to the Prolongation of Clotting Timiie in Aestivating Ground Squirrels: Arthur Svihla, Howard Bowman, and Ruth Ritenour . ............................... 306 Inactivation of Influenza Virus and of Viral Hemiiagglutinin by the Ciliate Tetrahymena geleii: Vincent Groupe' and Leonora H. Pugh........ . ........... ... . 307 The Importance of Protective Urina...

Cultures of Entamoeba histolytica were subjected to pure gamma radiation from a cobalt-60 source. No effect upon population growth was noticed following dosages below 100,000 RAD. A noticeable increase in lag phase was observed following exposure to about 100,000 RAD. A dose of more than 195,300 RAD resulted in death as indicated by failure of cultures to grow. The relation between increasing l...

Metal-on-metal bearings are being increasingly used in young patients. The potential adverse effects of systemic metal ion elevation are the subject of ongoing investigation. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether cobalt and chromium ions cross the placenta of pregnant women with a metal-on-metal hip resurfacing and reach the developing fetus. Whole blood levels were estimated usi...

Cobalt is a nutrient to phytoplankton, but knowledge about its biogeochemical cycling is limited, especially in the Pacific Ocean. Here, we report sections of dissolved cobalt and labile dissolved cobalt from the US GEOTRACES GP16 transect in the South Pacific. The cobalt distribution is closely tied to the extent and intensity of the oxygen minimum zone in the eastern South Pacific with highes...

By cobalt-doping of the mixed conducting phase PSFC, a good combination of high CO2 stability and high oxygen permeability is obtained for the 60 wt% Ce(0.9)Pr(0.1)O(2-δ)-40 wt% Pr(0.6)Sr(0.4)Fe(0.5)Co(0.5)O(3-δ) (CP-PSFC) dual phase membrane, which suggests that CP-PSFC is a promising membrane for industrial applications in the oxyfuel process for CO2 capture.

The effect of cobalt precursor on the structure of Co supported multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were studied by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). MWCNTs were treated with a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids and decorated with cobalt and/or cobalt oxides via aqueous impregnation solutions of cobalt nitrate or cobalt acetate followed by reduction in hydrogen. XPS was mainly ...

the potential of carbon nanotubes (cnt) supported cobalt catalysts for fischer-tropsch (ft) reaction is shown. using the wet impregnation method cobalt on carbon nanotubes catalysts were prepared with cobalt loading varying from 15 to 45 wt. %. the catalysts are characterized by different methods including: bet physisorption, x-ray diffraction, hydrogen chemisorption, and temperature-programmed...

Currently the Gamma Knife system is accompanied with a treatment planning system, Leksell GammaPlan (LGP) which is a standard, computer-based treatment planning system for Gamma Knife radiosurgery. In LGP, the dose calculation algorithm does not consider the scatter dose contributions and the inhomogeneity effect due to the skull and air cavities. To improve the dose calculation accuracy, Monte...