BACKGROUND The aim of the modern radiotherapy is to get a homogenous dose distribution in PTV, which is obtained by using for example physical or dynamic wedges. The using of a physical wedge has provided such isodose distributions but their use resulted in detrimental dosimetric consequences, for example beam hardening effects and practical consequences of filter handling or possible misalignm...

Nanodroplets residing near wedges or edges of solid substrates exhibit a disjoining pressure induced dynamics. Our nanoscale hydrodynamic calculations reveal that nonvolatile droplets are attracted or repelled from edges or wedges depending on details of the corresponding laterally varying disjoining pressure generated, e.g., by a possible surface coating.

OBJECTIVE Ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTs) occur frequently in patients having long QT syndrome (LQTS) or after acute myocardial ischemia. However, the synergistic effects of ischemia and LQTS on arrhythmia development are unclear. We evaluated the contribution of a prior episode of ischemia on the arrhythmogenicity of the LQTS. METHODS Using a 256-channel optical mapping system, we mapped ...

Documents written in cuneiform script are one of the largest sources about ancient history. The script is written by imprinting wedges (Latin: cunei) into clay tablets and was used for almost four millennia. This three-dimensional script is typically transcribed by hand with ink on paper. These transcriptions are available in large quantities as raster graphics by online sources like the Cuneif...

Recent experiments have shown that cones of intermediate apex angles display orientational stability with leading in flight. Here we show and simulations analogous results hold the two-dimensional context solid wedges or triangular prisms planar flows at Reynolds numbers Re∼102 to 103. Slender are statically unstable tend flip over tumble, broad oscillate flutter due dynamical instabilities, bu...

The phenomenon of diffraction may be defined by any deviation of geometrical rays from rectilinear paths which cannot be interpreted as reflection and refraction. Although the ascending series solutions to some canonical structures as cylinders, spheres, conducting wedges, etc. are available, they are not directly useful in high frequency region. Those ascending series solutions suffer from ver...

This paper presents the characterization of integrated micromachined waveguide absorbers in the frequency band of 220 to 325 GHz. Tapered absorber wedges were cut out of four different commercially available semi-rigid absorber materials and inserted in a backshorted micromachined waveguide cavity for characterization. The absorption properties of these materials are only specified at 10 GHz, a...