This study describes the injuries, complications, functional limitations, and rehabilitative needs of amputees managed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center during the Persian Gulf conflict (1991). Fourteen amputees were treated sustaining 21 amputations with 18 lower-limb and 3 upper-limb amputations. In six casualties there were multiple amputations. Battle injuries were the cause in 79%. Nerve ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the amount of radiation doses absorbed by soft tissues (entrance skin dose) with a low-dose spiral computed tomography (CT) protocol compared to conventional X-ray techniques commonly used in orthodontics. METHODS The amount of skin dose has been evaluated using a tissue-equivalent head-neck radiotherapy humanoid phantom with thermoluminescent ...

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Electronic portal imaging device (EPID) plays an important role in radiation therapy portal imaging, geometric and dosimetric verification. Consistent image quality and stable radiation response is necessary for proper utilization that requires routine quality assurance (QA). A commercial 'EPID QC' phantom weighing 3.8 kg with a dimension of 25 × 25 × 4.8 cm³ is used for EPID QA. This device ha...

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In this article, a staircase-shaped ultra-wide band dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) has been used as sensor for the detection of breast tumor by monostatic radar-based microwave imaging (MRMWI). The proposed DRA fractional bandwidth (BW) 98.5% and high peak gain 5.98 dB along with dual polarization behaviour from 5.12 to 8.2 GHz 11.02-13.8 GHz. MRMWI setup, is placed over phantom at distance...

background: to reduce the dose to normal tissues surrounding the treated breast, a uniform magnetic field was used within a humanoid phantom in breast radiotherapy. materials and methods: monte carlo simulations were performed with geant4, irradiating humanoid phantoms in a magnetic field. to reconstruct phantoms, computed tomography (ct) data slices of four patients were used for the monte car...

Phase-resolved Doppler optical coherence tomography has been used to image blood flow dynamics in various tissues using both time-domain and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography techniques. In this manuscript, we present phase-resolved Doppler imaging with a high-speed optical frequency domain imaging system. We demonstrate that by correcting for spurious timing-induced phase errors, ex...