The aim of this work was to evaluate the operation of the 1600SRS detector and to develop a calibration procedure for verifying the dose delivered by a single isocenter stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment of small multiple brain metastases (BM).
14 clinical treatment cases were selected with the number of BM ranging from 2 to 11. The dosimetric agreement was investigated between the calculated and the measured dose by an OCTAVIUS 1600SRS array detector in an OCTAVIUS 4D phantom equipped with dedicated SRS top. The cross-calibration procedure deviated from the manufacturer's as it applied field sizes and dose rates corresponding to the volumetric modulated arc therapy segments in each plan.
Measurements with a plan specific cross-calibration showed mean ± standard deviation (SD) agreement scores for cut-off values 50%, 80%, 95%, of 98.6 ± 1.7%, 96.5 ± 4.6%, 97.3 ± 4.4% for the 6 MV plans respectively, and 98.6 ± 1.5%, 96.6 ± 4.0% 96.4 ± 6.3%, for the 6 MV flattening filter free (FFF) plans respectively. Using the default calibration procedure instead of the plan specific calibration could lead to a combined systematic dose offset of 4.1% for our treatment plans.
The 1600SRS detector array with the 4D phantom offers an accurate solution to perform routine quality assurance measurements of single isocenter SRS treatments of multiple BM. This work points out the necessity of an adapted cross-calibration procedure.
A dedicated calibration procedure enables accurate dosimetry with the 1600SRS detector for small field single isocenter SRS treatment of multiple brain metastases for a large amount of BM.
A dedicated calibration procedure enables accurate dosimetry with the 1600SRS detector for small field single isocenter SRS treatment of multiple brain metastases for a large amount of BM.
Sleep is essential for full mental and physical renewal. Cardiac surgery improves the life expectancy and quality. But unfortunately, some patients lacked that merit as they suffered sleep disturbance. We used validated questionnaire applied to 153 cardiac surgery patients to assess the sleep disturbances after surgery.
About 70 (45.8%) had valve procedure, 55 (36%) had revascularization, 19 (12.4%) had both procedures and 9 (5.8%) had other procedures. The majority had no post-operative bleeding nor infection. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/gsk2795039.html About 78% had sleeping difficulty for one month. About 50% used different medications to fall asleep, mostly analgesics. About 76% slept after 2-6 h irrespective of sleep quality. Some patients had poor sleep quality in the form of nightmares and night terrors.
Sleep quality was disturbed immediately following cardiac surgery. There was a reduction of night sleep compensated by increased daytime sleepiness. These changes almost reverted one month after surgery.
Sleep quality was disturbed immediately following cardiac surgery. There was a reduction of night sleep compensated by increased daytime sleepiness. These changes almost reverted one month after surgery.Aim Psoriasis includes unpleasant symptoms such as pain. This study aimed to investigate whether clinical trials have domains related to pain in their study designs. Materials and methods We analyzed all clinical trials about interventions for psoriasis treatment registered on ClinicalTrials.gov and the frequency of pain-related outcomes. Results Our analysis included 1033 registered clinical trials. They had 1329 primary outcomes and 5457 secondary outcomes. The pain was used in six (0.6%) protocols as a primary outcome and 68 (6.5%) protocols as a secondary outcome. Conclusion Pain as an outcome was used in few registered clinical trial protocols for the treatment of psoriatic conditions. Future studies should investigate why the trialists do not include pain among primary or secondary outcomes.Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT is an essential imaging modality for the management of various diseases. Increasing numbers of PET/CT examinations are carried out across the world and deliver benefits to patients; however, there are concerns about the cumulative radiation doses from these examinations in patients. Compared to the radiation exposure delivered by CT, there have been few reports on the frequency of patients with a cumulative effective radiation dose of ≥100 mSv from repeated PET/CT examinations. The emerging dose tracking system facilitates surveys on patient cumulative doses by PET/CT because it can easily wrap up exposure doses of PET radiopharmaceuticals and CT. Regardless of the use of a dose tracking system, implementation of justification for PET/CT examinations and utilisation of dose reduction measures are key issues in coping with the cumulative dose in patients. Despite all the advantages of PET/MRI such as eliminating radiation exposure from CT and providing good tissue contrast in MRI, it is expensive and cannot be introduced at every facility; thus, it is still necessary to utilise PET/CT with radiation reduction measures in most clinical situations.
Diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background body signal suppression (DWIBS) is now recommended as a first-line staging modality in prostate cancer patients, and the widespread use of DWIBS may lead to an increased frequency of incidental findings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and clinical significance of incidental findings on whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) with DWIBS.
Data from 124 patients with prostate cancer (age, 76.5 ± 5.6 years), who underwent 1.5 T WB-MRI with STIR, TSE-T2, TSE-T1, In/Out GRE, and DWIBS sequences, were retrospectively analyzed. Findings unrelated to prostate cancer were considered as incidental findings and categorized into two groups based on their clinical implications as follows imaging follow-up or additional examinations was required (significant incidental findings) and no need to additional work-up (non-significant incidental findings). A chi-square test was performed to compare the differences in the prevalence of significant incidental findings based on age (≤75 and>75 years old).
A total of 334 incidental findings were found with 8.1% (
= 27) as significant incidental findings. Significant incidental findings were more frequent in patients over 75 years old than those of 75 years old or younger (28.6% vs 11.1%,
= 0.018).
Clinically significant incidental findings, which required imaging follow-up or additional examinations, were commonly observed in prostate cancer patients on WB-MRI/DWIBS.
Some incidental findings were clinically significant that may lead to changes in treatment strategy. Checking the entire organ carefully for abnormalities and reporting any incidental findings detected are important.
Some incidental findings were clinically significant that may lead to changes in treatment strategy. Checking the entire organ carefully for abnormalities and reporting any incidental findings detected are important.
The aim of this work was to evaluate the operation of the 1600SRS detector and to develop a calibration procedure for verifying the dose delivered by a single isocenter stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment of small multiple brain metastases (BM).
14 clinical treatment cases were selected with the number of BM ranging from 2 to 11. The dosimetric agreement was investigated between the calculated and the measured dose by an OCTAVIUS 1600SRS array detector in an OCTAVIUS 4D phantom equipped with dedicated SRS top. The cross-calibration procedure deviated from the manufacturer's as it applied field sizes and dose rates corresponding to the volumetric modulated arc therapy segments in each plan.
Measurements with a plan specific cross-calibration showed mean ± standard deviation (SD) agreement scores for cut-off values 50%, 80%, 95%, of 98.6 ± 1.7%, 96.5 ± 4.6%, 97.3 ± 4.4% for the 6 MV plans respectively, and 98.6 ± 1.5%, 96.6 ± 4.0% 96.4 ± 6.3%, for the 6 MV flattening filter free (FFF) plans respectively. Using the default calibration procedure instead of the plan specific calibration could lead to a combined systematic dose offset of 4.1% for our treatment plans.
The 1600SRS detector array with the 4D phantom offers an accurate solution to perform routine quality assurance measurements of single isocenter SRS treatments of multiple BM. This work points out the necessity of an adapted cross-calibration procedure.
A dedicated calibration procedure enables accurate dosimetry with the 1600SRS detector for small field single isocenter SRS treatment of multiple brain metastases for a large amount of BM.
A dedicated calibration procedure enables accurate dosimetry with the 1600SRS detector for small field single isocenter SRS treatment of multiple brain metastases for a large amount of BM.
Sleep is essential for full mental and physical renewal. Cardiac surgery improves the life expectancy and quality. But unfortunately, some patients lacked that merit as they suffered sleep disturbance. We used validated questionnaire applied to 153 cardiac surgery patients to assess the sleep disturbances after surgery.
About 70 (45.8%) had valve procedure, 55 (36%) had revascularization, 19 (12.4%) had both procedures and 9 (5.8%) had other procedures. The majority had no post-operative bleeding nor infection. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/gsk2795039.html About 78% had sleeping difficulty for one month. About 50% used different medications to fall asleep, mostly analgesics. About 76% slept after 2-6 h irrespective of sleep quality. Some patients had poor sleep quality in the form of nightmares and night terrors.
Sleep quality was disturbed immediately following cardiac surgery. There was a reduction of night sleep compensated by increased daytime sleepiness. These changes almost reverted one month after surgery.
Sleep quality was disturbed immediately following cardiac surgery. There was a reduction of night sleep compensated by increased daytime sleepiness. These changes almost reverted one month after surgery.Aim Psoriasis includes unpleasant symptoms such as pain. This study aimed to investigate whether clinical trials have domains related to pain in their study designs. Materials and methods We analyzed all clinical trials about interventions for psoriasis treatment registered on ClinicalTrials.gov and the frequency of pain-related outcomes. Results Our analysis included 1033 registered clinical trials. They had 1329 primary outcomes and 5457 secondary outcomes. The pain was used in six (0.6%) protocols as a primary outcome and 68 (6.5%) protocols as a secondary outcome. Conclusion Pain as an outcome was used in few registered clinical trial protocols for the treatment of psoriatic conditions. Future studies should investigate why the trialists do not include pain among primary or secondary outcomes.Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT is an essential imaging modality for the management of various diseases. Increasing numbers of PET/CT examinations are carried out across the world and deliver benefits to patients; however, there are concerns about the cumulative radiation doses from these examinations in patients. Compared to the radiation exposure delivered by CT, there have been few reports on the frequency of patients with a cumulative effective radiation dose of ≥100 mSv from repeated PET/CT examinations. The emerging dose tracking system facilitates surveys on patient cumulative doses by PET/CT because it can easily wrap up exposure doses of PET radiopharmaceuticals and CT. Regardless of the use of a dose tracking system, implementation of justification for PET/CT examinations and utilisation of dose reduction measures are key issues in coping with the cumulative dose in patients. Despite all the advantages of PET/MRI such as eliminating radiation exposure from CT and providing good tissue contrast in MRI, it is expensive and cannot be introduced at every facility; thus, it is still necessary to utilise PET/CT with radiation reduction measures in most clinical situations.
Diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background body signal suppression (DWIBS) is now recommended as a first-line staging modality in prostate cancer patients, and the widespread use of DWIBS may lead to an increased frequency of incidental findings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and clinical significance of incidental findings on whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) with DWIBS.
Data from 124 patients with prostate cancer (age, 76.5 ± 5.6 years), who underwent 1.5 T WB-MRI with STIR, TSE-T2, TSE-T1, In/Out GRE, and DWIBS sequences, were retrospectively analyzed. Findings unrelated to prostate cancer were considered as incidental findings and categorized into two groups based on their clinical implications as follows imaging follow-up or additional examinations was required (significant incidental findings) and no need to additional work-up (non-significant incidental findings). A chi-square test was performed to compare the differences in the prevalence of significant incidental findings based on age (≤75 and>75 years old).
A total of 334 incidental findings were found with 8.1% (
= 27) as significant incidental findings. Significant incidental findings were more frequent in patients over 75 years old than those of 75 years old or younger (28.6% vs 11.1%,
= 0.018).
Clinically significant incidental findings, which required imaging follow-up or additional examinations, were commonly observed in prostate cancer patients on WB-MRI/DWIBS.
Some incidental findings were clinically significant that may lead to changes in treatment strategy. Checking the entire organ carefully for abnormalities and reporting any incidental findings detected are important.
Some incidental findings were clinically significant that may lead to changes in treatment strategy. Checking the entire organ carefully for abnormalities and reporting any incidental findings detected are important.
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