The role of Cobalt-60 as a radiation source in teletherapy for the treatment of cancer needs hardly to be reiterated. Although not used commonly in developed countries, cobalt-60 teletherapy machines can still be regarded as a very viable and cost effective option for the treatment of a sizeable fraction of cancer patients. At present in India, there are only 399 teletherapy units (280 telecoba...

Delivering aphasia therapy via telecommunication may provide a means to deliver intensive therapy in a cost-effective way. Teletherapy, remotely-administered (language) treatment, may support the repetitive drill practices that people with chronic aphasia need to perform when learning to compensate for their lasting language difficulties. The use of teletherapy may allow speech and language pat...

introduction in this study, we aimed to calculate dose enhancement factor (def) for gold (au) and iron (fe) nanoparticles (nps) in brachytherapy and teletherapy, using monte carlo (mc) method. materials and methods in this study, a new algorithm was introduced to calculate dose enhancement by aunps and fenps for iridium-192 (ir-192) brachytherapy and cobalt-60 (co-60) teletherapy sources, using...

Radiation therapy is one of the established modes of cancer treatment. For the safe and effective radiation therapy, it is necessary to plan and deliver the radiation beam accurately. Radiotherapy Simulator helps in identifying the organs at risk and in localising the cancer-affected tissues. For teletherapy, the Simulator would also help in choosing the right radiation beam and aiming it at th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of treatment for early endometrial cancer. STUDY DESIGN Cost-minimization type of cost-effectiveness analysis with payer costs based on CPT (physician's current procedural terminology) and DRG (disease related group) codes. The six principles of cost-effectiveness analysis were evaluated. We compared the standard treatment protocol of selected lymp...

BACKGROUND Preliminary studies suggest that videoteleconferencing (VTC) may be an effective means to deliver behavioral interventions to families. Subjects consisted of a subsample of children (n=37) and caregivers who participated in the Children's Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Telemental Health Treatment Study (CATTS) (n=223), a randomized trial testing the effectiveness of ...

Advances in the design and delivery of trauma care and acute medical management have increased the number of survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI), producing societal consequences and medical challenges. Although access to health care for rural patients remains a critical challenge, teletherapy may represent a viable means for the delivery of therapeutic services to such patients. A case st...

While the current trend in radiotherapy is to replace cobalt teletherapy units with more versatile and technologically advanced linear accelerators, there remain some useful applications for older cobalt units. The expansion of our radiotherapy department involved the decommissioning of an isocentric cobalt teletherapy unit and the replacement of a column-mounted 4-MV LINAC that has been used f...

Numerous studies have highlighted a range of potential benefits teletherapy for clients. Nonetheless, researchers found that many therapists are reluctant to adopt in their work practice. There is dearth research about how appropriated telehealth platforms, either understand practice or the challenges and opportunities system design. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an unfortunate but unique opport...

Radioactive Cobalt-60 teletherapy machines find a prominent place in radiation therapy departments India. The first cobalt machine SMS hospital (Picker Advance Tele Cobalt (ATC) C/9) was installed 1995. initial activity of the source 333 TBq (9000 Ci).In March 2019, output became lesser than 50 cGy/hr at normal treatment distance (NTD) 80cm which is clinically not acceptable for patient because...