The effectiveness of the automated motion correction software (INSTILL, Philips Medical Systems Co. Ltd., Andover, USA) proposed by Matsumoto et al. to prevent motion artifact in quantitative gated SPECT, was tested with a technetium-99m point source and cardiac phantom. INSTILL well corrected the error due to point source movement during acquisition up to a distance of 5 pixels (32.8 mm) in th...

PURPOSE Treatment uncertainties are not included in modeling dose response of hearing loss. We determine uncertainty of accumulated dose to cochleas of head & neck cancer patients due to setup error during treatments of external beam IMRT. METHODS We studied 8 patients: 1 planning CT for each patient and total 40 cone beam CTs. Those patients were treated with 33 fractions. Treatments deliver...

The Negative Priming task is widely used to investigate attention inhibition observed in some variations of a selective attention task. This study was designed to measure the reliability of a negative priming effect as a prerequisite for conducting this research. The sample included 100 university students whose ages ranged between 18 to 36 years. They completed two tasks: an identification tas...

Accurately estimating software effort is probably the biggest challenge facing software developers. Estimates done at the proposal stage has high degree of inaccuracy, where requirements for the scope are not defined to the lowest details, but as the project progresses and requirements are elaborated, accuracy and confidence on estimate increases. It is important to choose the right software ef...