Many conservative treatments exist for medial knee osteoarthritis (OA) which aims to reduce the external knee adduction moment (EKAM). The objective of this study was to determine the difference between different shoes and lateral wedge insoles on EKAM, knee adduction angular impulse (KAAI), external knee flexion moment, pain, and comfort when walking in individuals with medial knee OA. Seventy...

A method is proposed for generating dynamic wedges spanning the entire field width, defined as the collimator opening in the wedged direction, without changes to existing hardware. The technique approximates the fluence pattern of a dynamic wedge by sequentially closing the leaves of a 120-leaf multileaf collimator (MLC). Closure times for the individual leaves were derived by extending the seg...

This paper investigates the accuracy of the two available calculation algorithms of the Oncentra MasterPlan three-dimensional treatment planning system (TPS)-- the pencil beam method and collapsed-cone convolution--in modeling the Varian enhanced dynamic wedge (EDW). Measurements were carried out for a dual high energy (6-15 MV) Varian DHX-S linear accelerator using ionization chambers for beam...

In the past few years there has been increasing use of limited resection for pulmonary carcinoma, especially in patients with restricted cardiorespiratory function. Because there is frequently a choice as to the type of limited resection, it was considered worth while to review the safety and efficiency of the two principal types. In total, 212 wedge resections and 281 segmental resections are ...

The principal sequence feature responsible for intrinsic DNA curvature is generally assumed to be runs of adenines. However, according to the wedge model of DNA curvature, each dinucleotide step is associated with a characteristic deflection of the local helix axis. Thus, an important test of a more general view of sequence-dependent DNA curvature is whether sequence elements other than A-A cau...

We examine conditions under which a semicomputable set in a computable metric space is computable. In particular, we focus on wedge of circles and prove that each semicomputable wedge of circles is computable.

this study deals with the visibility, influence rate of diffrent links in virtual universities websites. the current community research is consisted of websites of 21 non medical universities websites and 8 websites of iran medical universities. the websites have been retrieved by the use of searchin and goolge webometic tools and are downloaded on personal computers to analyze their links. the...

background: in-service education is one of the best and major methods to provide, train and improve the performance of the staffs. this study aims to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the virtual trainings from the staffs' perspective of mashhad university of medical sciences. methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted among staffs from different parts of the therapy depart...