... also consider doses to critical organs and the related toxicity rates We found that the FPIMRT technique allows a reduction of normaltissue complication probability in all critical structures other ... for non-uniform normaltissue irradiation: the effective volume method Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1989, 16:1623-1630 Burman C, Kutcher GJ, Emami B, Goitein M: Fitting of normaltissue tolerance ... better target coverage and critical structures sparing have been recently proposed A sliding window mantle technique [12], using dynamic MLC (dMLC) and electronic tissue compensation, succeeded...
... way, normal structure sparing is maximized as the free-breathing patient undergoes radiotherapy Methods of designing treatment plans with non-uniform dose distributions to achieve better normaltissue ... 4D dose, as shown in figure 2(j), still had enough dose coverage to the target and more normaltissuesparing than that of the ITV approach (figure 2(j) vs figure 2(h)) The derived AppD for the ... plug-in The conventional objectives that are not voxelized can still be used to control normaltissuesparing and target coverage From the treatment planner’s point of view, our method is an...
... spared, green: not to be spared Discussion One important issue of 3D-c-IMRT is normaltissuesparing Among several critical tissues exposed when head and neck cancers are treated the parotid glands ... of fluence profiles to meet the prescribed doses for PTVs and criticalnormal tissues nearby to be spared Improved parotid gland sparing has been demonstrated after inverse planning compared ... contribution deals with dose characteristics achieved in planning treatment volumes and normaltissuesparing particularly the parotid gland in 3D-c-IMRT for locoregionally advanced squamous...
... Internal Radiation Dose [MIRD] formalism [19]: ˜ ¯ Dtissue = Atissue × ni Ei × φi /mtissue , where tissue is the cumulated activity during 24 h in the tissue investigated; ni is the probability that ... transcripts were common for the different tissues (Table 4) No single transcript was A regulated in all five tissue types Among the transcripts regulated in more than one tissue, upregulation was more prevalent ... were affected in two or more tissue types (Table 5) The highest number of affected processes in common for two tissue types was observed for the kidney cortex-lung tissue combination and the kidney...
... absolute dose, in conjunction with the normal tissues being encompassed by lower isodose lines, provides a biologically sound rationale for using SBRT to reduce normaltissue exposure.[7] Radiobiology ... predict in vivo toxicity of normal tissues, in which alteration and/or injury of various cell types is of greater importance than cell survival.[10] Generally, normaltissue effects are more greatly ... migrate into the radioablated tissue from neighboring undamaged tissue SBRT is well suited for the sparing of tumors involving or abutting parallel functioning tissues (i.e kidneys, lung parenchyma...
... to the treatment-planning computer through direct cable network Contouring of the tumor and criticalnormal structures was done by the radiation oncologist with the assistance of a radiologist ... on every CT slice Prescription of dose to the target and defining dose constraints for the criticalnormal structure such as the lungs, cord, heart etc was done keeping in mind the partial tolerances ... A-mediastinum Soft Tissue Sarcoma (PO)*-right chest wall Non Small cell lung cancer T2N2M0-right upper lobe Non Small cell lung cancer Stage III-left upper lobe with chest wall infiltration Soft Tissue Sarcoma...
... [1,5,7,29] and car- Figure Proportional reduction in integral dose to normal tissues Proportional reduction in integral dose to normal tissues Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation ... of tissue receiving ≥ 4Gy) [5,8,22,23] and bilateral lung V5 [22] V30 for the whole heart was also calculated [23] Second cancer risk modeling Given a dose-volume histogram (DVH) for a normaltissue ... evidence [5,7,8] The aims of this study were to quantify the reduction of radiation dose to normal tissues associated with the transition from 35 Gy mantle RT to 35 Gy IFRT to 20 Gy IFRT for...
... of tissue types: 20 pure adipose tissues, 17 mixed (adipose plus fibroglandular) normal tissues, 41 carcinoma and 21 fibrocystic changes Effects of storage – In order to study the effects of tissue ... histological analysis whilst the remaining tissue was prepared for scatter analysis All measurements were made with the tissue at room temperature and all tissues were stored between measurements ... which the tissue was stored at liquid nitrogen temperatures Results Mean diffraction profiles for the four different tissue types studied in this work are shown in Figure Adipose 119 tissue presents...
... of membrane proteins from paired tumoral and adjacent normaltissue of CRC patients A total of eight tumor tissues and eight matched normal tissues were collected from eight CRC patients (Table ... from tumoral and adjacent normal tissues After surgery, paired tumoral and adjacent normal tissues were obtained from the same CRC patient and stored at )80 °C Frozen tissues were unfrozen rapidly ... peptides from the normaltissue of one patient were labeled with iTRAQ114 and peptides from tumor tissue of the same patient were labeled with iTRAQ115 The resulting peptides from normaltissue of another...
... and normal synovial tissues (6%) The inflammatory and vascularity scores were higher in RA synovial tissue in comparison to OA and normal In accordance with the staining data, RA synovial tissue ... expression was significantly higher in RA synovial tissue compared to OA synovial tissue (threefold), normal synovial tissue (9.5-fold) and RA synovial tissue fibroblasts (sixfold) Western blot analysis ... levels were significantly higher in RA synovial tissue compared to OA synovial tissue (1.9-fold), normal synovial tissue (fourfold) and RA synovial tissue fibroblasts (9.6-fold) Tie2 protein expression...
... Leonards, New South Wales, Australia All tissues, normally discarded at surgery, were obtained with informed consent Menisci (pooled medial and lateral tissue) , knee (pooled femoral and tibial) ... remaining tissue extracts from individual donors/tissues were similarly dialyzed but were not fractionated by centrifugal diafiltration Chondroitinase ABC and keratanase-I digestion of tissue extracts ... distribution of the total knee and hip replacement tissue donors used in this study (b) Pooled tissue extracts were examined by Western blotting Pooled M GuHCl tissue extracts were fractionated by centrifugal...
... tumor cells Thirty of them (39.49%) have showed higher level of TS in primary tumors than in normal tissues To study the significance of the differential expression of TS in primary tumors, clinicopathological ... as: Liu et al.: Significance of differential expression of thymidylate synthase in normal and primary tumor tissues from patients with colorectal cancer Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2011...
... histological appearance of the adipose tissue in DD has been described Fat biopsies in different case reports have revealed histologically normal adipose tissue without inflammation [8,10] However, ... of the nerves in the adipose tissue of the painful sites [1,20], which has only been confirmed in one case report [21] As regards inflammatory signs in the adipose tissue in DD, leukocytes and ... obese, body mass index (BMI)-matched controls and controls with normal BMI Patients and Methods Patients A total of 53 women with adipose tissue pain were recruited to the study All patients were diagnosed...
... histological appearance of the adipose tissue in DD has been described Fat biopsies in different case reports have revealed histologically normal adipose tissue without inflammation [8,10] However, ... of the nerves in the adipose tissue of the painful sites [1,20], which has only been confirmed in one case report [21] As regards inflammatory signs in the adipose tissue in DD, leukocytes and ... obese, body mass index (BMI)-matched controls and controls with normal BMI Patients and Methods Patients A total of 53 women with adipose tissue pain were recruited to the study All patients were diagnosed...
... crossing the tissue This measurement allows partitioning between bone versus soft tissue and fat versus lean tissue in pixels of the body where there is no overlaying calcified tissue The assessment ... perhaps what many in this field had suspected – lean tissue repletion during rehabilitation and recovery from critical illness is minimal Although critically ill patients are a complex patient group, ... if, patients replenish lean tissue lost during critical illness Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Weight gain following critical illness is largely...
... have a rethink of the role of fat tissue in the critical state in humans Obviously the authors did not investigate the mechanism of decreased adiponectin in critical illness, as it was not the ... Critical Care Vol 13 No Owecki a well-known defense mechanism against hypotension and stress, whereas ... and being spread throughout the body hormone-producing and cytokine-producing machinery, adipose tissue cannot stand passively by in the face of severe threat to life, and is involved in numerous...
... sample mRNA versus normal female genomic DNA, or indirectly by multiplying the ratio of prostate sample mRNA versus common reference mRNA by the ratio of common reference mRNA versus normal female ... transcript level for all expressed genes), calculated indirectly using the common reference mRNA versus normal female genomic DNA hybridization data ...
... the Normal button to add normal map to the list If other types of maps are listed, click the Remove Map button in the section for the map you want to remove 11 Click the folder next to the Normal ... Tangent Space Normals This tells Maya the texture you’re applying is a normal map and not a bump map You can leave the Bump Depth at 1; it has no effect on the strength of the normal map Switch ... The low-resolution model with all of its normal maps Normal maps are difficult but not impossible to edit in a 2D paint program such as Photoshop If the normal map has just a few small glitches,...