Published in Scientific Reports
This work investigates the effects of neutron irradiation on nitrogen and hydrogen adsorption in boron-doped activated carbon. Boron-neutron capture generates an energetic lithium nucleus, helium nucleus, and gamma photons, which can alter the surface and structure of pores in activated carbon. The defects introduced by fission tracks are modeled a...
Background: Glioblastoma (GB) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor. Standard medical treatment consists of a maximal safe surgical resection, subsequently radiation therapy (RT) and chemotherapy with temozolomide (TMZ). An accurate definition of the tumor volume is of utmost importance for guiding RT. In this project we investigated the...
Meta-Topolin riboside was selected as cytokinin for these experiments. The effects of combinations of monochromatic blue, red and far red LED light were compared to fluorescent light during the micropropagation and rooting of a recalcitrant pear (Pyrus communis L.). During the micropropagation phase, red light gave some particular advantages: maxim...
Experimental investigations have been carried out on the production of a promising therapeutic radionuclide Cu-67 via the Zn-67(n,p)Cu-67, Zn-68(n,x) Cu-67, and Zn-68(gamma,p)Cu-67 reaction routes. Natural zinc metal foils were irradiated with 14.1 MeV neutrons and bremsstrahlung of end-point energy 15 MeV. Radioactivity levels of Cu-67 and other r...
Nanocrystals of CZTS have been synthesized by solvothermal technique using rapid microwave aided heating. The effects of synthesis parameters, such as reaction temperature, reaction time, precursor concentration, various surfactants, were investigated. Samples were characterised by XRD, Raman spectroscopy, XPS, FEGSEM-EDS, FEGTEM for phase, crystal...
2D cine MR imaging may be utilized to monitor rapidly moving tumors and organs-at-risk for real-time adaptive radiotherapy. This study systematically investigates the impact of geometric imaging parameters on the ability of 2D cine MR imaging to guide template-matching-driven autocontouring of lung tumors and abdominal organs. Abdominal 4D MR image...
Solute clustering and G-phase precipitation cause hardening phenomena observed in some low alloy and stainless steels, respectively. Density functional theory was used to investigate the energetic driving force for the formation of these precipitates, capturing temperature effects through analysis of the system's configurational and magnetic entrop...
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Although many authors stated that a user-centred design approach in medical device development has added values, the most common research approach within healthcare is evidence-based medicine, which tend to focus on functional data rather than patient wellbeing and comfort. End user comfort is well addressed in literature for commercial products su...
Introduction: Evaluation of patient characteristics inducing toxicity in breast radiotherapy, using simultaneous modeling of multiple endpoints.Methods and Materials: In 269 early-stage breast cancer patients treated with whole-breast irradiation (WBI) after breast-conserving surgery, toxicity was scored, based on five dichotomized endpoints. Five ...
