A 63-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital with complaints of coldness in head and right femur, persistent vertigo, dry mouth, vexation, general weakness, anorexia, hot flashes. After being diagnosed left-sided ductal carcinoma 2017 undergoing partial resection, she recommended radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, but refused did not receive any treatment. At a checkup No...

The purpose of this study was to reduce cupping artifacts and improve quantitative accuracy of the images in cone-beam CT (CBCT). An energy minimization method (EMM) is proposed to reduce cupping artifacts in reconstructed image of the CBCT. The cupping artifacts are iteratively optimized by using efficient matrix computations, which are verified to be numerically stable by matrix analysis. Mor...

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images have inaccurate CT numbers because of scattered photons. Thus, quantitative analysis of scattered photons that affect an electron density (ED) curve and calculated doses may be effective information to achieve CBCT-based radiation treatment planning. We quantitatively evaluated the effect of scattered photons on the accuracy of dose calculations from ...

Hijamah or cupping therapy has a therapeutic effect on cholesterol. However, there is still lack of studies that investigate the potential in managing apolipoprotein B as proatherogenic agent and A-1 an anti-proatherogenic agent. This study aims to explore lipid profiles apolipoproteins hypercholesterolemic patients. A pre-post experimental design without controls were used. Consecutive samplin...

Acupuncture is an old therapeutic method that includes both needle and nonneedle acupuncture. Nonneedle acupuncture includes moxibustion, cupping, and acupressure. In the field of dermatology, acupuncture has been reported to be beneficial for the treatment of acne, postherpetic neuralgia, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and urticaria. In acupuncture treatment of dermal diseases, both the filifor...

OBJECTIVE Wet cupping is a traditional bloodletting method recommended for controlling of respiratory disease complications. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of wet cupping vs. venesection on arterial O2 saturation level of smokers. METHODS This is a randomized controlled clinical trial which started with simple sampling of smokers. After administering spirometery, participants (N = 1...