Radiotherapy dose calculation algorithms are essential components of modern treatment planning, ensuring that the prescribed radiation dose conforms as closely as possible to a patient’s tumour while ...

Predicting Treatment Response of Malignant Gliomas to Bevacizumab and Irinotecan by Imaging Proliferation With [18F] Fluorothymidine Positron Emission Tomography: A Pilot Study A total of 1,206 adult ...

How many of us give a “full” dose of chemotherapy to an obese patient—even in the curative setting? Dose calculation in the obese is a confusing but important puzzle for the oncologist and is becoming ...

Dose conversion: A deep learning model predicts the Monte Carlo (MC) dose distribution from the pencil beam (PB) dose, for a prostate cancer case. (a) PB dose distribution; (b) converted dose ...

July 2, 2010 (Orlando, Florida) — Children with type 1 diabetes can have their pizza and eat it, too, if they calculate their premeal insulin dose according to carbohydrate, fat, and protein intake ...

Medical apps are popular with both patients and clinicians, and many healthcare facilities often recommend the use of certain apps. While apps have the potential to enhance health management, gaps ...

In this webinar, we will explore innovative advancements in Monte Carlo based dose calculations that are poised to impact radiation oncology quality assurance. This expert session will focus on new ...

Technology has taken over some of the most tedious tasks in healthcare, much to the relief of overworked clinicians—but that doesn’t mean these new software programs should be treated as infallible.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) A substance might potentially be harmful or even toxic for a biological system, provided that the quantity or the concentration (the "dose") is high enough. The toxic effect ...

Tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) is a promising experimental animal in biomedical research, but the equivalent doses of drugs between tree shrew and human and other animals has not been explored, which ...