Sabina Yasmin, Bijoy Sonker Barua, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, F.-U.-Z. Chowdhury et al.
Following the rapid growing economy, the Bangladeshi dwellers are replacing their traditional (mud-, bamboo-, and wood-based) houses to modern multistoried buildings, where different types of glasses are being used as decorative as well as structural materials due to their various advantageous prope...
Miriam Brazzelli, Margaret Astin
Christina E. Agnew, Denise M. Irvine, Conor K. McGarry
The motivation for this study was to reduce physics workload relating to patient- specific quality assurance (QA). VMAT plan delivery accuracy was determined from analysis of pre- and on-treatment trajectory log files and phantom-based ionization chamber array measurements. The correlation in this c...
Tianling Lyu, Wei Zhao, Yinsu Zhu, Zhan Wu et al.
Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) is of great significance for clinical practice due to its huge potential to provide material-specific information. However, DECT scanners are usually more expensive than standard single-energy CT (SECT) scanners and thus are less accessible to undeveloped regio...
Herman I. Libshitz, Alan B. Brosof, Martha E. Southard
Radiation change in the thorax following extended field radiation therapy for Hodgkin's disease was reviewed retrospectively. All patients were treated with cobalt-60. Strict criteria were established to exclude patients with previous radiation therapy, chemotherapy, evidence of pulmonary parenchyma...
Joseph E. Bunnell, Robert B. Finkelman, José A. Centeno, Olle Selinus
Medical Geology, the study of the impacts of geologic materials and processes on animal and human health, is a dynamic emerging discipline bringing together the geoscience, biomedical, and public health communities to solve a wide range of environmental health problems. Among the Medical Geology des...
Jin Liu, Yi Zhang, Qianlong Zhao, Tianling Lv et al.
The image quality in low dose computed tomography (LDCT) can be severely degraded by amplified mottle noise and streak artifacts. Although the iterative reconstruction (IR) algorithms bring sound improvements, their high computation cost remains a major inconvenient. In this work, a deep iterative r...
Brian E. Zimmerman, Darko Grošev, Irène Buvat, Marco Antonio Coca Pérez et al.
Ba activity by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, but the activity was initially unknown to the participants. Imaging was performed in a cylindrical phantom filled with water. Two trials were carried out in which the participants first estimated the activities using their local stan...
Md. Jainal Abedin, Md Rezaul Karim, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, Masud Kamal et al.
Realizing the probable health implications via the exposures to radionuclides released from coal-fired brick kilns, concentrations of terrestrial radionuclides in feed coal, fly- and bottom ash collected from some major coal-fired brick kilns of Southern region in Bangladesh were measured using HPGe...
M.I. Sayyed, Hanan Al–Ghamdi, Aljawhara H. Almuqrin, Sabina Yasmin et al.
In this work, we examined novel polymer composites for use in radiation protection applications. These prepared polymers are non-toxic compared with lead and show potential to be used as protective gear in different medical applications where low-energy photons are utilized. We prepared silicon rubb...
Geir Bjørklund, Lyudmila Pivina, Maryam Dadar, Yuliya Semenova et al.
Indications of proximal tubule effects have been observed in recent surveillance study of Gulf War veterans exposed to depleted uranium (DU). This gives some support for the suspicion that DU may represent one of the causes for the so-called Persian Gulf syndrome. Proposed effects may be especially ...
S. Amatullah, Rubina Rahman, Jannatul Ferdous, M. M. Mahfuz Siraz et al.
Accurate knowledge of the terrestrial radionuclides concentrations in building components is crucial for radiation exposure assessment to the dwellers. The present investigation determines the natural radioactivity levels in common building materials (the structural and decorative) used in Banglades...
Yikun Zhang, Dianlin Hu, Zhihong Yan, Qingxian Zhao et al.
Dual-energy cone-beam computed tomography (DE-CBCT) is a promising imaging technique with foreseeable clinical applications. DE-CBCT images acquired with two different spectra can provide material-specific information. Meanwhile, the anatomical consistency and energy-domain correlation result in sig...
N. Alkhomashi, Ibrahim F. Al-Hamarneh, Fahad I. Almasoud
The levels of natural radiation in bedrock groundwater extracted from drilled wells in selected farms in the northwestern part of Saudi Arabia were addressed. The investigated waters form a source of irrigation for vegetables, agricultural crops, wheat, and alfalfa to feed livestock consumed by the ...
Mohammad Sorowar Hossain, Mamtaz Begum, Md. Mahmuduzzaman Mian, Shameema Ferdous et al.
BACKGROUND: Cancer burden among children and adolescents is largely unknown in Bangladesh. This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview on childhood and adolescent cancers and to contribute to the future strategies to deal with these diseases in Bangladesh. METHODS: Data on malignant neoplasm...