Publications by authors named "Hikari Minami"
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- A portable respiratory training system called the Gyroscope Respiratory Training System (GRTS) was developed to assess the feasibility of respiratory training.
- The study involved comparing respiratory waveforms from patients using GRTS and another system, the Respiratory Gating for Scanners (RGSC), to evaluate the stability and reproducibility of these waveforms during expiratory breath-hold radiation therapy.
- Results showed that GRTS provided similar accuracy to RGSC and effectively reduced variability in respiratory waveforms among patients, indicating its potential as an affordable and functional tool for respiratory training in clinical settings.
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- The study investigates how the distance between the CBCT isocenter and the brain center (DBI) affects image quality in stereotactic irradiation for brain metastasis.
- Using both a phantom study and a patient study, researchers found that greater distances resulted in poorer image quality, particularly in objective measures like contrast-to-noise ratio and artifact levels.
- The findings suggest that aligning the CBCT isocenter with the brain center can enhance image quality and improve patient treatment outcomes.
Purpose: Intubation and ventilation cannot be performed in cases of parapharyngeal space tumors as the enlargement of the upper airway leads to the obstruction and hindrance of the intubation procedure. However, there is limited literature on anesthetic management, including the airway, in this disease. Herein, we report a successful case of awake intubation in a patient with parapharyngeal space tumor.
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