Effective dose and image quality for intraoperative imaging with a cone-beam CT and a mobile multi-slice CT in spinal surgery: A phantom study.

Purpose: To compare the effective dose (ED) and image quality (IQ) of O-arm cone-beam CT (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA) and Airo multi-slice CT (Brainlab AG, Munich, Germany) for intraoperative-CT (i-CT) in spinal surgery.

Methods: The manufacturer-defined protocols available in the O-arm and Airo systems for three-dimensional lumbar spine imaging were compared. Organ dose was measured both with thermo-luminescent dosimeters and GafChromic films in the Alderson RadiationTherapy anthropomorphic phantom.

Skin and lung toxicity in synchronous bilateral breast cancer treated with volumetric-modulated arc radiotherapy: a mono-institutional experience.

Purpose: To evaluate acute and late skin/subcutaneous toxicities and radiation-induced lung fibrosis (RILF) in patients treated with adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) for synchronous bilateral breast cancers (SBBC), after conservative surgery.

Methods/patients: Twenty-five patients were treated with volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT/RapidArc) on both breasts, and checked clinically for detecting RT toxicities during and after treatment. A high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) was performed, for detecting RILF during follow-up.

On the Use of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs as Rheology Modifiers for Surfactant Solutions.

Surfactant molecules can give rise to different morphological structures, depending on numerous parameters such as temperature, surfactant concentration, and salinity. Specifically, the salt content can be easily tuned in a way to induce morphological transitions and modulate the rheological response. It is shown that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can be used in the same way as classical binding salts in changing the rheological properties of the resulting gel-like system.

Publisher's Note: Effect of the salt-induced micellar microstructure on the nonlinear shear flow behavior of ionic cetylpyridinium chloride surfactant solutions [Phys. Rev. E 95, 032603 (2017)].

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.

Effect of the salt-induced micellar microstructure on the nonlinear shear flow behavior of ionic cetylpyridinium chloride surfactant solutions.

The shear flow dynamics of linear and branched wormlike micellar systems based on cetylpyridinium chloride and sodium salicylate in brine solution is investigated through rheometric and scattering techniques. In particular, the flow and the structural flow response are explored via velocimetry measurements and rheological and rheometric small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments, respectively. Although all micellar solutions display a similar shear thinning behavior in the nonlinear regime, the experimental results show that shear banding sets in only when the micelle contour length L[over ¯] is sufficiently long, independent of the nature of the micellar connections (either linear or branched micelles).