Reported doses of external beam radiotherapy and radioimmunotherapy (RIT) to produce equivalent therapeutic effects are inconsistent, with many proposed causes. Calculations of effective dose were performed for the case of LS174T human colon cancer xenografts, where a 60Co single fraction exposure (6 Gy) was matched with 131I-labeled 17-1A monoclonal antibody therapy (300 microCi injection, 19 ...

Introduction: Although travertine is now widely used as a building material, the effects of its radiological hazards to public health should be a matter of concern. Therefore, this study aimed to determine its radiological parameters with regard to human health. Material and Methods: In this research 10 travertine samples were collected ...

The focus of the work of Committee 2 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is the computation of dose coefficients compliant with Publication 103 A set of reference computational phantoms is being developed, based on medical imaging data, and used for radiation transport calculations. Biokinetic models used to describe the behaviour of radionuclides in body tissues a...

background: breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading global cause of cancer death among women worldwide. radiotherapy plays a significant role in treatment of breast cancer and reduces locoregional recurrence and eventually improves survival. the treatment fields applied for breast cancer treatment include: tangential, axillary, supraclavicular and internal mammary ...

In a double-blind crossover study, 13 patients with pretreatment diastolic blood pressure between 95 and 109 mm Hg received nadolol, 80 mg/day, plus placebo of hydrochlorothiazide and nadolol, plus three different doses of active hydrochlorothiazide. Patients remained on each active regimen for 3 weeks, with an intervening placebo period of 2 to 4 weeks. With 12.5 mg of hydrochlorothiazide dail...

INTRODUCTION For future space missions at the International Space Station, health risk to astronauts caused by space radiation needs to be properly quantified and controlled. The radiation field in space is low-dose rate, but the accumulated dose can be high during long-term missions (1). Radiological risk under such a low dose-rate exposure, i.e. stochastic effect, has generally been evaluated...

The CT scanners on the market offer a multitude of procedure protocols that enable many clinical questions to be answered quickly. CT scanners can be used to image all parts of the body, some common uses in our hospital include; acute inflammatory bowel diseases; acute appendicitis, trauma including head, spine and skeletal trauma, renal diseases including congenital, inflammatory and neoplasti...

In order to evaluate internal dose, MIRD system was proposed by Society of Nuclear Medicine in 1976. MIRDOSE3 computer software based on this concept is currently the most frequently used tool to calculate the organ dose in nuclear medicine community. Unfortunately it uses fixed anthropomorphic phantoms, so the geometric parameters of organs are short of individual characteristics. Although the...