PURPOSE Historically, treatment of malignant surface lesions has been achieved with linear accelerator based electron beams or superficial x-ray beams. Recent developments in the field of brachytherapy now allow for the treatment of surface lesions with specialized conical applicators placed directly on the lesion. Applicators are available for use with high dose rate (HDR)(192)Ir sources, as w...

Kari Tanderup (Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark) Robert Hudej (Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Slovenia) Gerry Lowe (Mount Vernon Hospital, United Kingdom) Rachel Wills (Mount Vernon Hospital, United Kingdom) Marisol De Brabandere (Leuven, Belgium) José Perez Calatayud (Valencia, Spain) Astrid De Leeuw (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Isabelle Dumas (Institut Gustave-Roussy, France) Daniel Berger...

In this paper we describe the system submitted to the closed challenge of the CoNLL-2008 shared task on joint parsing of syntactic and semantic dependencies. The system that we present extracts syntactic and semantic dependencies independently. Syntactic dependencies are processed with the MaltParser 0.4. Semantic dependencies are processed with a combination of memory-based classifiers. We foc...

This paper describes the heating characteristics of a small rectangular resonant cavity applicator system with non-invasive ultrasound temperature measurement system. In previous study, authors developed for deep part knee joint hyperthermia.

Dose distributions throughout the eye, from three types of beta-ray ophthalmic applicators, were calculated using the EGS4, ACCEPT 3.0, and other Monte Carlo codes. The applicators were those for which doses were measured in a recent international intercomparison [Med. Phys. 28, 1373 (2001)], planar applicators of 106Ru-106Rh and 90Sr-90Y and a concave 106Ru-106Rh applicator. The main purpose w...

BACKGROUND Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) may be used to deliver radiation to the tumor bed post-lumpectomy in eligible patients with breast cancer. Patient and tumor characteristics as well as the lumpectomy technique can influence patient eligibility for APBI. This report describes a lumpectomy procedure and examines patient, tumor, and surgical characteristics from a prospecti...

PURPOSE Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) with the MammoSite breast brachytherapy (MBB) system is being investigated as an alternative to whole breast radiation in breast conservation therapy (BCT) at multiple centers worldwide. The newness of MBB means a complete understanding of long-term toxicity, particularly involving the chest wall, has yet to be completely articulated. We rep...