Publications by authors named "Michael Pf Sutcliffe"
Aims: This study investigated the association between the macroscopic mechanical response of aortic dissection (AoD) flap, its fibre features, and patient physiological features and clinical presentations.
Methods: Uniaxial test was performed with tissue strips in both circumferential and longitudinal directions from 35 patients with (AoD:CC) and without (AoD:w/oCC) cerebral/coronary complications, and 19 patients with rheumatic or valve-related heart diseases (RH). A Bayesian inference framework was used to estimate the expectation of material constants (C, D, and D) of the modified Mooney-Rivlin strain energy density function.
The VoxTox research programme has applied expertise from the physical sciences to the problem of radiotherapy toxicity, bringing together expertise from engineering, mathematics, high energy physics (including the Large Hadron Collider), medical physics and radiation oncology. In our initial cohort of 109 men treated with curative radiotherapy for prostate cancer, daily image guidance computed tomography (CT) scans have been used to calculate delivered dose to the rectum, as distinct from planned dose, using an automated approach. Clinical toxicity data have been collected, allowing us to address the hypothesis that delivered dose provides a better predictor of toxicity than planned dose.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To enable fast and customizable automated collection of radiotherapy (RT) data from tomotherapy storage.
Methods: Human-readable data maps (TagMaps) were created to generate DICOM-RT (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine standard for Radiation Therapy) data from tomotherapy archives, and provided access to "hidden" information comprising delivery sinograms, positional corrections and adaptive-RT doses.
Results: 797 data sets totalling 25,000 scans were batch-exported in 31.