Browsing Masters Theses by Affiliation of Duke Author(s) "Clinical Science Departments"
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Adaptive stereotactic body radiation therapy planning for lung cancer.
(Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2013-09-01)PURPOSE: To investigate the dosimetric effects of adaptive planning on lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). METHODS AND MATERIALS: Forty of 66 consecutive lung SBRT patients were selected for a retrospective ... -
Attenuation of inflammatory events in human intervertebral disc cells with a tumor necrosis factor antagonist.
(2010)STUDY DESIGN: The inflammatory responses of primary human intervertebral disc (IVD) cells to tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and an antagonist were evaluated in vitro. OBJECTIVE: To investigate an ability for soluble TNF ... -
Characterization of Image Quality for 3D Scatter Corrected Breast CT Images.
(2012)The goal of this study was to characterize the image quality of our dedicated, quasi-monochromatic spectrum, cone beam breast imaging system under scatter corrected and non-scatter corrected conditions for a variety of breast ... -
Comparative performance of multiview stereoscopic and mammographic display modalities for breast lesion detection.
(2010)PURPOSE: Mammography is known to be one of the most difficult radiographic exams to interpret. Mammography has important limitations, including the superposition of normal tissue that can obscure a mass, chance alignment ... -
Musculoskeletal symptoms among female garment factory workers in Sri Lanka.
(2011)OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms and their association with sociodemographic risk factors among female garment factory workers in Sri Lanka. METHODS: 1058 randomly selected female garment ... -
Plate-specific gain map correction for the improvement of detective quantum efficiency in computed radiography.
(2010)The purpose of this work is to improve the NPS, and thus DQE, of CR images by correcting for pixel-to-pixel gain variations specific to each plate. Ten high-exposure open field images were taken with an RQA5 spectrum, with ... -
Prostate Bed Motion During Post-Prostatectomy Radiotherapy
(MEDICAL PHYSICS, 2012-06)
