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 ...

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 ...

Promise of New Vascular-Disrupting Agents Balanced With Cardiac Toxicity: Is It Time for Oncologists to Get to Know Their Cardiologists? Drugs are to the medical oncologist what the scalpel is to the ...

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 ...

Monte Carlo 3D dose-check calculations help clinical physicists maintain confidence in their patient-specific QA for hard-to-treat disease indications Independent viewpoint: given the clinical ...

Next-generation algorithms generate treatment plans in seconds, accelerating plan optimization and dose calculation by up to 70%. Improved dose coverage from dynamic collimator and modulated ports ...

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 ...

Estimation of organ doses from internal and external exposures in health physics depends on computational models of the human body (phantoms), and Monte Carlo calculations ─ two tools that have seen ...