background: one of the main causes of induction of secondary cancer in radiation therapy is neutron contamination received by patients during treatment. objective: in the present study the impact of wedge and block on neutron contamination production is investigated. the evaluations are conducted for a 15 mv siemens primus linear accelerator.  methods: simulations were performed using mcnpx mon...

background: considering suggested formula in the references and pcwp measured by catheterism, in the present study the relation between pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (pcwp) measured the flow velocity of mitral valve and mitral annulus motion through tissue doppler imaging is evaluated methods: 52 cases of severe ms were admitted for balloon mitral valvolotomy (bmv) are included in this stu...

in this research, numerical simulation of a symmetric impact of a 2-d wedge, considering dynamic equations in two-phase flow is taken into account. the two-phase flow around the wedge is solved based on finite volume method and volume of fluid (vof) scheme. the dynamic mesh model is used to simulate dynamic motion of the wedge, thereby the effects of different dynamic meshes in both structured ...

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 36 (AAPM TG-36) data can be used to estimate peripheral dose (PD) distributions outside the primary radiation field. However, the report data does not apply to linear accelerators equipped with a multileaf collimator (MLC) and universal wedge (UW). Tertiary multileaf collimators have been shown to significantly affect PD distribution...

A new method of generating wedge-shaped dose distributions through dynamic multileaf collimator dose delivery rather than computer-controlled jaw motion is presented. The method starts with the calculation of a wedge-shaped beam profile for the desired wedge angle. The resultant wedge beam profile is then passed to the intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) leaf sequence generation algori...

High tibial osteotomy (HTO) has been widely used for clinical treatment of osteoarthritis of the medial compartment of the knee, and both opening-wedge and closing-wedge HTO are the most commonly used methods. However, it remains unclear which technique has better clinical and radiological outcomes in practice. To systematically evaluate this issue, we conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis by...

Background: One of the main causes of induction of secondary cancer in radiation therapy is neutron contamination received by patients during treatment.Objective: In the present study the impact of wedge and block on neutron contamination production is investigated. The evaluations are conducted for a 15 MV Siemens Primus linear accelerator. Methods: Simulations were performed using MCNPX Monte...

We propose a nonlocal interfacial model for 3D short-range wetting at planar and nonplanar walls. The model is characterized by a binding-potential functional depending only on the bulk Ornstein-Zernike correlation function, which arises from different classes of tubelike fluctuations that connect the interface and the substrate. The theory provides a physical explanation for the origin of the ...

Clustering of arc volcanoes in subduction zones indicates along-arc variation in the physical condition of the underlying mantle where majority of arc magmas are generated. The sub-arc mantle is brought in from the back-arc largely by slab-driven mantle wedge flow. Dynamic processes in the back-arc, such as small-scale mantle convection, are likely to cause lateral variations in the back-arc ma...

Despite its importance for ourunderstandingof physical processes associatedwith subduction, the geometry of mantle flow in subduction zones remains poorly understood, particularly in the mantle wedge above subducting slabs. Constraints onmantle flowanddeformation canbeobtainedbymeasurements of shearwave splitting, a valuable tool used to characterize the geometry and strength of seismic anisotr...