abstract background: for treatment verification in radiation therapy. several physical characteristics of scanningliquid filled ionization chamber epid (slic-epid) including: extra build-up layer,reproducibility and uniformity, and noise level were investigated.electronic portal imaging devices (epids) have found an outstanding positionmaterials and methods: equilibrium, 1-30 mm white water mat...

Background: Posturography is a method in which the postural stability of adults is evaluated by measuring the center of pressure sway. This study aims to evaluate the reproducibility of measuring the center of pressure oscillation in standing position with internal perturbation in healthy young women with and without hyperkyphosis. Methods: Ten women with dorsal hyperkyphosis with the mean age...

introduction hadron-therapy is an effective technique used to treat tumors that are located between or nearby vital organs. the italian national center of oncological hadron-therapy (cnao) has been realized as the first facility in italy to treat very difficult tumors with protons and carbon ions. the on-line monitor system for cnao has been developed by the department of physics of the univers...

background: the aim was to assess the reliability and the validity of the translated version of the stroke specific quality of life (ss-qol) questionnaire in iranian post-stroke patients. methods: this project was performed at the shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran, between 12  april  2010  and  24  february 2011.  the  english version of the ss-qol was translated into persian ...