Depth-dose curves for cobalt photon beams were experimentally determined in homogeneous acrylic phantoms and compared to dose distributions calculated by Monte Carlo simulation. The measurements of the depth-dose curves were performed with L-alanine minidosimeters, Kodak X-Omat V radiographic films and with cylindrical ionization chambers. The Co source and the phantom and Lalanine minidosimete...

background: this study assessed the clinical usefulness of the solid phantom, which may compensate for the disadvantages of the water phantom, by comparing the radiological doses between the two depending on their depths. materials and methods: the experimental equipment used was a linear accelerator for medical use, water phantom, solid phantom, farmer type ion chamber and electrometer. the di...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Irradiation of whole blood and blood components before transfusion is currently the only accepted methodology to prevent transfusion-associated graft-vs.-host disease. In the present work, we developed an automated system for blood bag storage during irradiation, using a teletherapy unit. MATERIALS AND METHODS A device with two thermal compartments was constructed in...

In this paper, a novel sonoelastographic technique for estimating local shear velocities from propagating shear wave interference patterns (termed crawling waves) is introduced. A relationship between the local crawling wave spatial phase derivatives and local shear wave velocity is derived with phase derivatives estimated using an autocorrelation technique. Results from homogeneous phantoms de...

We propose a method for photoacoustic flow measurement based on the Doppler effect from a flowing homogeneous medium. Excited by spatially modulated laser pulses, the flowing medium induces a Doppler frequency shift in the received photoacoustic signals. The frequency shift is proportional to the component of the flow speed projected onto the acoustic beam axis, and the sign of the shift reflec...

how to cite this article: poor zamany nejat kermany m, modirian e, soroush m, masoumi m, hosseini m. phantom limb sensation (pls) and phantom limb pain (plp) among young landmine amputees. iran j child neurol. summer 2016; 10(3):42-47.   abstract objective to determine the frequency of phantom limb sensation (pls) and phantom limb pain (plp) in children and young adults suffering landmine-relat...

Received Feb 26, 2017 Revised Apr 28, 2017 Accepted May 16, 2017 In this work, the antenna performance and Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) levels in a homogeneous phantom exposed to 900 MHz flexible diamond dipole antenna are investigated under different crumpling deformation conditions. The numerical simulations of the realistic complex two dimensional crumpling are performed by using Finite In...

We have developed a prototype saline-coupled microwave breast imaging system with a non-contacting monopole antenna array. We have demonstrated in simulation and phantom experiments that the detection of internal features can be enhanced as the parameter reconstruction mesh approaches the exact breast perimeter. However, in the case of a homogeneous breast phantom we have also observed a centra...

In this work, the accuracy of the implementation of the Macro Monte Carlo electron dose calculation algorithm into the radiation therapy treatment planning system Eclipse is evaluated. This implementation - called eMC - uses a particle source based on the Rotterdam Initial Phase-Space model. A three-dimensional comparison of eMC calculated dose to dose distributions resulting from full treatmen...