Dosimetric impact of hollow intraoral stents for head and neck cancer radiotherapy: A phantom study.

Purpose: To investigate the dosimetric impact of the calculation boundaries and dose calculation algorithms of radiotherapy in head and neck cancer patients with an opened oral cavity connected to the exterior by a hollow intraoral positioning stent.

Methods And Materials: A homemade silicone phantom with an opened oral cavity was placed in a CIRS head phantom to model head and neck cancer patients with a hollow intraoral positioning stent. 3D-CRT plans were designed on CT images of the phantom in Monaco and Pinnacle treatment planning systems (TPSs) with the same beam parameters.

A new method for measuring magnetorheological fluid redispersibility by testing yield stresses of sediments at different depths.

Magnetorheological fluid (MRF) is a widely used smart material that suffers from sedimentation. Since sedimentation is unavoidable, it is crucial to study and improve the redispersibility of MRFs. However, previous redispersibility testing methods have problems, such as complicated operation and low precision.

The association between methionine synthase A2756G polymorphism and hematological cancer: A meta-analysis.

Background: Numerous studies have focused on the association of methionine synthase (MS) A2756G polymorphism and acute hematological cancer risk. However, the results remain inconsistent. Therefore, a meta-analysis was performed to derive a more precise estimate of the association between them.

[Application of Imaging-Guided Radiation Therapy in Pelvic Tumor Radiotherapy].

Objective: To discuss the influence of setup errors on the accuracy of pelvic cancer in IGRT, analysis setup errors and determine the CTV-to-PTV margins.

Methods: 60 pelvic cancer patients treated with Varian 23IX, all of them were performed by CBCT before and after-correction three times in the first week and after that once a week. Then, to measure the setup errors at X(left-right), Y(superior-inferior), Z(anterior-posterior) axis and E(coronal), F(sagittal), G(axial) rotation directions.

Sensing of molecular chirality on an electrode modified with a clay-metal complex hybrid film.

A chiral sensing electrode has been prepared by coating an indium tin oxide (ITO) substrate with a hybrid film of metal complexes and a clay layer (montmorillonite). By applying the combined method of the Langmuir-Blodgett and self-assembly techniques, a monolayer of a water-soluble chiral metal complex (Lambda-[Os(phen)(3)](2+)), which acted as a mediator of oxidizing a target molecule, was fixed electrostatically onto a single-layered clay film. Chiral sensing was demonstrated by monitoring a photocurrent when the electrode was in contact with an aqueous NaClO(4) solution of 1,1'-2-binaphthol.

[Mutation detection of COL1A1 gene in a pedigree with osteogenesis imperfecta].

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is heritable bone fragility,which is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait clinical presentation. Clinical symptom, in general, is dominantly inherited OI with blue sclerae, hearing loss and mild-moderate skeletal deformity. Genetic loci of OI have been mapped to17q21.