The last two decades of the XX century and the beginning of the XXI century are marked with an increasing interest toward the application of magnetic fields for therapeutical purposes. Magnetotherapy provides non-invasive, safe and easy to apply methods to directly treat the site of injury, the source of pain and inflammation, as well as other types of injury. The 50 years of worldwide experien...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A comprehensive dosimetry intercomparison has been carried out involving all the radiotherapy centres, all external beam modalities and every radiotherapy treatment unit in the Republic of Ireland. MATERIALS AND METHODS Reference point measurements were made for all megavoltage photon beams. Doses were also investigated in planned three-field distributions. One of these...

Purpose: To develop and validate a pre-treatment EPI dosimetry method on Varian TrueBeam linacs using continuous imaging, with reconstruction in a 3D cylindrical phantom geometry. Methods: Delivery of VMAT plans with continuous imaging is currently possible only in Research Mode on TrueBeam linacs, with images acquired in a proprietary format. An earlier technique was adapted to take advantage ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To present a novel helical TomoTherapy-based method for whole breast radiotherapy that has better dosimetry and also has acceptable low-dose regions for lungs, heart, and contralateral breast compared with tangential field-in-field IMRT (FIF-IMRT). MATERIAL AND METHODS Ten patients with left-side breast cancer were planned with low-dose-area-constrained helical TomoTher...

The first results from a clinical study for Temoporfin-mediated photodynamic therapy (PDT) of low-grade (T1c) primary prostate cancer using online dosimetry are presented. Dosimetric feedback in real time was applied, for the first time to our knowledge, in interstitial photodynamic therapy. The dosimetry software IDOSE provided dose plans, including optical fiber positions and light doses base...

Nowadays we medical physicists are bombarded with guidelines and task reports, and we may see similar ones from different organizations in the United States of America or worldwide. Many extraordinary and diligent medical physicists have devoted their time and knowledge in creating these documents. Yet some of us might be wondering: should we optimize the use of our resources by establishing a ...

BACKGROUND [18F]UCB-H was developed as a novel radiotracer with a high affinity for synaptic vesicle protein 2A, the binding site for the antiepileptic levetiracetam. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the radiation dosimetry of [18F]UCB-H in a preclinical trial and to determine the maximum injectable dose according to guidelines for human biomedical research. The radiation dosimetry...

A protocol is prescribed for clinical reference dosimetry of external beam radiation therapy using photon beams with nominal energies between 60Co and 50 MV and electron beams with nominal energies between 4 and 50 MeV. The protocol was written by Task Group 51 (TG-51) of the Radiation Therapy Committee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and has been formally approved ...

Purpose. To assess differences in dose distribution of a vertebral body injected with bone cement as calculated by radiation treatment planning system (RTPS) and actual dose distribution. Methods. We prepared two water-equivalent phantoms with cement, and the other two phantoms without cement. The bulk density of the bone cement was imported into RTPS to reduce error from high CT values. A dose...

Yttrium-90 radioembolization (Y-RE) is a well-established therapy for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and also of metastatic liver deposits from other malignancies. Nuclear Medicine and Cath Lab diagnostic imaging takes a pivotal role in the success of the treatment, and in order to fully exploit the efficacy of the technique and provide reliable quantitative dosimetry that are ...