The Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP), in close partnership with the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR) has developed a series of Technical Quality Control (TQC) guidelines for radiation treatment equipment. These guidelines outline the performance objectives that equipment should meet in order to ensure an acceptable level of radiation treatment quality. The ...

The Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP), in close partnership with the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR) has developed a series of Technical Quality Control (TQC) guidelines for radiation treatment equipment. These guidelines outline the performance objectives that equipment should meet in order to ensure an acceptable level of radiation treatment quality. The ...

A key challenge in the design of Virtual Musical instruments (VMIs) is finding expressive, playable, learnable mappings from gesture to sound that progressively reward practice by performers. Designing such mappings can be particularly demanding in the case of non-contact musical instruments, where physical cues can be scarce. Unaided intuition works well for many instrument designers, but othe...

Introduction: Ionizing radiation can cause damage to biologically important DNA molecules. Radiation in nuclear medicine radiation exposes people working in from two main positions; administer in gradiopharmaceuticals (the barn and squeezing a generator, procurement, distribution and drug infusion) and patients that receive radiation treatment (patients that are prescribed a ra...

introduction the purpose of this study was to evaluate personal shields in radiation departments of hospitals affiliated to mashhad university of medical sciences. materials and methods first, the information related to 109 personal shields was recorded and evaluated by imaging equipment. afterwards, the equivalent lead thickness (elt) of 62 personal shields was assessed, using dosimeter and st...

BACKGROUND There are two types of barriers to the utilisation of maternal health and antenatal care (ANC) services, including the supply-side barriers operating at the health facility level and demand-side, affecting the utilisation ANC services by pregnant women. The purpose of the study was to assess the essential resources required for the provision of ANC services in primary healthcare faci...

The Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (VECCS) advocates that the following equipment and supplies are the minimum requirements for all Levels (I-III) of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Facilities. These minimum requirements allow veterinary emergency and critical care facilities to identify themselves using a certification process endorsed by the VECCS. The certification pro...