The accuracy of external beam radiotherapy has improved rapidly in recent years with the advancement of technology. New modalities like three‐dimensional (3D) conformal radiotherapy, IMRT (intensity modulated radiotherapy) based on multi‐leaf collimator (MLC) and Tomotherapy technology for cancer treatments have been adopted in radiotherapy centers. In many developing countries like India these...

Purpose: The Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service (ACDS) has been auditing and New Zealand radiotherapy providers for nearly 10 years building the National Dataset of audit measurements. audits have uncovered numerous issues with varying significance. This paper will present an update ACDS including trends within recent findings then cover more advanced modalities such as SRS, SBRT, VMAT adapt...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between thorax deformities, panic disorder, and joint hypermobility METHODS The study includes 52 males diagnosed with thorax deformity, and 40 healthy male controls without thorax deformity, in Tatvan Bitlis and Isparta, Turkey. The study was carried out from 2004 to 2006. The teleradiographic and thoracic lateral images of the subjects were evaluated to...

background: the heterogeneous composition of the human body presents numerous tissue types and cavities with widely differing radiologic properties. the aim of the present work was to develop a low cost homogeneous and heterogeneous phantom and the absorbed dose were measured by ionization chamber for different radiotherapy treatment techniques and compared with treatment planning system absorb...

background long-term clinical symptoms and functional status of above-knee amputees are not well documented. this study documents the long-term outcomes of war related above-knee amputations. objective to study the long-term outcomes of unilateral above-knee amputation. materials and methods the study consisted of a comprehensive assessment, examination, and review of history and wartime medica...

introduction radiotherapy with small fields is used widely in newly developed techniques. additionally, dose calculation accuracy of treatment planning systems in small fields plays a crucial role in treatment outcome. in the present study, dose calculation accuracy of two commercial treatment planning systems was evaluated against monte carlo method. materials and methods siemens once or linea...