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Measurement of Radon Exhalation Rate in Some Building Materials Using Nuclear Track Detectors
... average values of radon concentration, area exhalation rate, mass exhalation rate and annual effective dose for building materials were given by Table ...average values of radon ...
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Minimal percentage of dose received by 90% of the urethra (%UD90) is the most significant predictor of PSA bounce in patients who underwent low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-brachytherapy) for prostate cancer
... Two hundred patients who were clinically diagnosed with localized prostate cancer (cT1c-2cN0M0) and underwent LDR-brachytherapy between July 2004 and November 2008 and a minimum follow-up of 18 months were enrolled in ...
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The Effect of Dose and Quality Assurance in Early Prostate Cancer Treated with Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy as Monotherapy
... (A) Patients had a median follow up of 6.5 years (range 0.2 to 17.7 years). Post implant CT dosimetry was carried out in 711 patients (33% of total). With respect to risk groups in those with post-implant CT dosimetry, ...
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Evaluation of Natural Radioactivity Levels and Radiological Hazards in Soil Samples of Sarıkamış Province, Kars, Turkey
... relatively low deposits of 137 Cs were found in the investigated area, where the activity concentrations ranged from BDL to ...average values of activity concentrations of 226 Ra, 232 Th and 40 K were ...
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Low dose rate brachytherapy for patients with low or intermediate risk prostate cancer: a systematic review
... bRFS rate is a surro- gate endpoint of treatment efficacy, and few studies reported survival outcomes (PCSM or ...PSA values each obtained at least 3 months apart); ...
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DETERMINATION OF RADIOACTIVITY CONCENTRATION OF NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES AND RADIATION HAZARD INDICES IN SOIL SAMPLES FROM OWERRI, SOUTH EAST NIGERIA
... Absorbed Dose Rate, External Hazard Index and Internal Hazard Index were evaluated using the activity concentrations of 40 K, 238 U and 232 ...the values of absorbed dose rate and ...
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Brachytherapy for cervix cancer: low-dose rate or high-dose rate brachytherapy – a meta-analysis of clinical trials
... moderate quality of evidence for mortality and local recurrence, and the low likelihood of publication bias, increase the confidence in the internal validity of our find- ings. Thus, our data are different of a ...
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Generation of Dose Volume Histograms Using Voxel Structure and the Monte Carlo Method in Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy
... The Dose Volume Histograms are tools commonly used in medical physics, for the analysis of doses delivered to the tumors and organs at risk, during radiotherapy ...of Dose Volume histograms, gen- erated ...
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Effects of low dose-rate irradiation on human tumour cells
... highest dose rate was also significantly different from the acute dose survival ...curve. Dose-rate sparing was occurring between these dose ...inverse dose-rate ...
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Comparison of Measured Values of CTDI and DPL with Standard Reference values of Different CT Scanners for dose Management
... high dose rate during therapy and those cause by low dose rate during ...the low dose rate during medical imaging as in the case of CT, two fundamental quantities, ...
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Estimation of the excess lifetime cancer risk from radon exposure in some buildings of Kufa Technical Institute, Iraq
... this low value of the effective dose is related to low value of radon concentrations occupancy rate, while the average percentage value of the Excess Lung Cancer in all buildings of Kufa ...
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The influence of experimentally-induced endotoxaemia on clinical variables and markers of systemic inflammation in donkeys ( Equus asinus
... a dose rate of 20 ng/kg (Low dose group), and ...(High dose group), respectively, after dilution in 500 ml of ...high dose of LPS yielded a statistically significant (P < ...
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Effects of Beam Startup Characteristics on Dose Delivery Accuracy at Low Monitor Units in Step and Shoot Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy
... arbitrary dose rate and the average dose delivered over three or five segments with the same low MU in step-and shoot ...affect dose at low MUs because of differences in beam ...
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Evidence based guideline recommendations on low dose rate brachytherapy in patients with low or intermediate risk prostate cancer
... 27. Eller LS, Lev EL, Gejerman G, et al. Prospective study of quality of life of patients receiving treatment for pros- tate cancer. Nurs Res 2006;55:S28-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006199-200603001-00006 28. Ferrer ...
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The biological effect of 125I seed continuous low dose rate irradiation in CL187 cells
... initial dose rate in model cells was 2.77 cGy/h. The dose uniformity of the irradia- tion model in the cell plane was ...absorbed dose for different exposure time in various culture planes has ...
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Glucagon Binding and Adenylate Cyclase Activity in Liver Membranes from Untreated and Insulin Treated Diabetic Rats
... protamine-zinc-insulin/100 g per day) insulin-treated diabetic group demonstrated chemical changes intermediate between the untreated and the high-dose insulin-treated animals. In liver plasma membranes from the ...
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Processing of Landsat 8 Imagery and Ground Gamma Ray Spectrometry for Geologic Mapping and Dose Rate Assessment, Wadi Diit along the Red Sea Coast, Egypt
... the values of mean absorbed dose rate, annual dose effective equivalent and external hazard index for the wadi sediments, costal-eolian sabkhas, sandy conglomerates, sand dunes and sheets and ...
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Misoprostol administered sublingually at a dose of 12.5 μg versus vaginally at a dose of 25 μg for the induction of full-term labor: a randomized controlled trial
... The need for oxytocin was greater, although not sig- nificantly so, in the sublingual group; however, this rate was lower than that reported by other authors [9, 21]. This greater need for oxytocin could be ...
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Effects of N-acetylcysteine on life shortening induced by chronic low dose-rate gamma-ray exposure in mice
... continuous low dose-rate gamma-ray exposure in ...a dose rate of 20 mGy/day beginning at 8 weeks of ...chronic low dose-rate radiation exposure in mice were ...
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The Effect of Low‑Dose Ketamine (Preemptive Dose) on Postcesarean
... Background: Postsurgical pain is the main cause of anxiety in patients; therefore, analgesics (adjuvants) such as preemptive doses of ketamine with minimal adverse effects would be beneficial. However, studies are needed ...
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