Publications by authors named "Mychaela D Coyne"
The purpose of this report is to present the implementation of a process for after-hours radiation treatment (RT) utilizing remote treatment planning based on optimized diagnostic computed tomography (CT) scans for the urgent palliative treatment of inpatients. A standardized operating procedure was developed by an interprofessional panel to improve the quality of after-hours RT and minimize the risk of treatment errors. A new diagnostic CT protocol was created that could be performed after-hours on hospital scanners and would ensure a reproducible patient position and adequate field of view.
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- The study investigates how sodium (Na) is stored and exchanged in the body, which is important for understanding the health impacts of sodium intake and chronic disease risks.
- Two pigs on different sodium diets were irradiated to measure sodium concentrations in their bones.
- Results suggest that sodium storage in bone is mostly non-exchangeable and that the deuterium-deuterium neutron generator method is effective for studying sodium distribution in tissues.
Objective: This study presents the development of a noninvasive method for monitoring Na in human bone. Many diseases, such as hypertension and osteoporosis, are closely associated with sodium (Na) retention in the human body. Na retention is generally evaluated by calculating the difference between dietary intake and excretion.
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