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Semi‐automated hippocampal avoidance whole‐brain radiotherapy planning

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Hippocampal avoidance whole‐brain radiotherapy (HA‐WBRT) is designed to spare cognitive function by reducing radiation dose to the hippocampus during the treatment of brain metastases. Current manual planning methods can be time‐consuming and may vary in quality, necessitating the development of automated approaches to streamline ...
Dong Joo Rhee, Subha Perni, Kelly J. Perrin, Kevin E. Casey, Alexandra O. Leone, Callistus M. Nguyen, Laurence E. Court, He Wang, Xin Wang, Eun Young Han   +9 more
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Shielding resources for four common radiopharmaceuticals utilized for imaging and therapy: Tc‐99m, F‐18, I‐131, and Lu‐177

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction The use of radioactive materials in the United States has been tightly regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other entities for many decades. In 2015, however, the Joint Commission began to require hospital‐based nuclear medicine departments to conduct shielding designs and evaluations for radioactive material areas ...
Michael Oumano, Richard Wendt, James Botti, Nathan Busse, David Hintenlang, Stephanie Leon, Kevin Little, Melissa Martin, Richard Massoth, Kenneth Matthews, Rameshwar Prasad, Sharon White, Jessica Clements   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving intraoperative handoffs for ambulatory anesthesia: challenges and solutions for the anesthesiologist

Local and Regional Anesthesia, 2019
Franklin Dexter,1 Brian Mark Osman,2 Richard H Epstein21Division of Management Consulting, Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; 2Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USAAbstract: Permanent ...
Dexter F, Osman BM, Epstein RH
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Simultaneous Perturbation Methods for Adaptive Labor Staffing in Service Systems [PDF]

arXiv, 2013
Service systems are labor intensive due to the large variation in the tasks required to address service requests from multiple customers. Aligning the staffing levels to the forecasted workloads adaptively in such systems is nontrivial because of a large number of parameters and operational variations leading to a huge search space.
arxiv  

Assessment of a medical physics educational program for science teachers

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Medical physics is a fulfilling profession where physics is applied to advance human health. However, many are uninformed of the role of physicists in medicine, and students are unaware of this career pathway. This study presents a pilot 1‐year program for science teachers to learn about physics in medicine and share with students
Ashley J. Cetnar, Jeffrey Woollard, Lin Ding   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Russian and regional performance indices of local therapists

Терапевтический архив, 2015
Aim. To analyze the statistical indicators of a local therapist's performance in the Russian Federation and its districts in the 2008-2012 period. Materials and methods.
V I Starodubov, M A Ivanova, O V Armashevskaia, M N Bant'eva   +3 more
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Development of a project of a set of measures for the organization and monitoring of scientific and personnel support as the development of import-substituting industries

Путеводитель предпринимателя, 2020
The article deals with the issues related to the development of the draft set of measures for the organization of scientific, technical and personnel support of projects for the creation and development of import-substituting industries in the medium and
S. V. Novikov, G. V. Tikhonov
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Risk analysis of the Unity 1.5T MR‐Linac adapt‐to‐shape workflow

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Purpose The adapt‐to‐shape (ATS) workflow on the Unity MR‐Linac (Elekta AB, Stockholm, Sweden) allows for full replanning including recontouring and reoptimization5. Additional complexity to this workflow is added when the adaptation involves the use of MIM Maestro (MIM Software, Cleveland, OH) software in conjunction with ...
Jiayi Liang, Eric Aliotta, Neelam Tyagi, Paola Godoy Scripes, Nicolas Côté, Ergys Subashi, Qijie Huang, Lian Sun, Ching‐Yun Chan, Angela Ng, Theresa Wunner, Victoria Brennan, Kaveh Zakeri, James Mechalakos   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Providing Safe and Effective Surgical Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the UK – Changing Strategies [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020
Robert Chapman, S Guru Naidu, Manoj Nair, Laura Spanu, Jasdeep Gahir   +4 more
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Preparing students as future professionals for creative economy

Вестник университета
Creative economies contribution to the total gross domestic product of countries has been analyzed. Issues have been identified in students preparation in higher education institutions in terms of creative competencies formation, considering existing ...
M. I. Kotenko, P. V. Pavlovskiy
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