PURPOSE Sparing brain volume is the goal when designing plans for multiple brain tumors. We compared dose distributions for tumor and normal tissues using VAMT and static IMRT. METHODS A patient presented with recurrent meningioma with 4 lesions identified. The greatest dimensions for the tumors were 0.4 to 2.0 cm. The tumor sizes and locations can be treated with a single plan with 1.8 Gy/fr...

Noncoplanar fields are normally used to improve the dose conformity of the target while sparing organs at risk. One of the methods to verify the dose distribution from the noncoplanar fields is by comparing their planar dose distributions from the treatment planning system (TPS) and the measured ones; for example, using film or electronic portal imaging devices (EPID). The planar dose distribut...

The purpose of the present study was to compare the impact of pulmonary function, body habitus, and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) immobilization on setup and reproducibility for upper lung tumor. From 2008 through 2011, our institution's prospective SBRT database was searched for patients with upper lung tumors. Two SBRT immobilization strategies were used: full-length BodyFIX and ...

Although insert sort takes quadratic time in the worst case it has a very efficient inner loop. Its bestcase computing time is linear, which occurs when the data are already in sorted order. It is the method of choice for data stored in linked lists or small arrays. Algorithm 1 is typical, and is written in extended Pascal. Implementing the conditional 'cand' operation (to guard against the err...

Helical tomotherapy (HT) can potentially be used for lung cancer treatment including stereotactic radiosurgery because of its advanced image guidance and its ability to deliver highly conformal dose distributions. However, previous theoretical and simulation studies reported that the effect of respiratory motion on statically planned tomotherapy treatments may cause substantial differences betw...

Kinetic equations describing ligation of DNA to circular recombinant forms were developed and solved for four types of reactions: (a) a homogeneous population of singly restricted DNA fragments, (b) insertion of singly restricted insert into vector, (c) forced directional insertion of doubly restricted insert into vector, and (d) insertion of singly restricted insert into phosphatased vector. T...

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The quality assurance tests for measuring the spatial orientations between tabletop, external patient positioning lasers, couch longitudinal moving direction, and imaging plane in a CT simulation system are a complicated and time-consuming process. We proposed a simple and efficient approach to acquire the angular deviations of spatial orientations between these components. An in-house cross-ji...