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9780735408647

Eleventh Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics: 19-22 March 2010 Mexico City. Mexico

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    9780735408647

  • ISBN10:

    0735408645

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-05-31
  • Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics

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The Mexican Symposia on Medical Physics represent a forum for invited presentations and free contributions related to the main areas of physics applied to medicine and biology presently of interest in Mexico (imaging techniques, radiotherapy, dosimetry, digital medical equipment, physiological measurements, optical techniques and educational issues).

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. x
Organizationp. xi
Plenary and Invited Talks
Evaluation of Neutron Component in Patients under High Energy Radiotherapy by Means of an On-Line and in vivo Procedurep. 1
An Overview of the Development and Evaluation of a Benchtop MicroCT Scannerp. 7
Artificial Neural Networks in Spectrometry and Neutron Dosimetryp. 12
Irradiation Design for an Experimental Murine Modelp. 18
Dosimetry in Steep Dose-rate Gradient Radiation Fields: A Challenge in Clinical Applicationsp. 23
Preliminary Analysis of the Social and Scientific Impact of the UAEM-ENIN M.Sc. and D.Sc. Graduate Programme in Medical Physicsp. 29
Contributions
Ambient Dose Equivalent Measured at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología Department of Nuclear Medicinep. 35
Validation of a Custom-made Software for DQE Assessment in Mammography Digital Detectorsp. 39
Neutron Spectra and H* (10) in a 15 MV Linacp. 44
The UNAM M.Sc. Program in Medical Physics Enters Its Teen Yearsp. 48
Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Project for an Integral Oncology Center at the Oaxaca High Specialization Regional Hospitalp. 52
Neonatal Videokeratometer: Basic Design of a Portable Device and Evaluation Methodp. 56
Dosimetric Quantities for Computed Tomography Examinations of Pediatric Patients on the Thoracic and Abdominal Regionsp. 60
Effect of Embolization Material in the Calculation of Dose Deposition in Arteriovenous Malformationsp. 64
Modeling the Cell Muscle Membrane from Normal and Desmin- or Dystrophin- Null Mice as an Elastic Systemp. 68
On the Construction of Models for Electrical Conduction in Biological Tissuesp. 73
Ferroelectrics: Development, Applications and Potentiality in Medical Physics and Electrical Engineeringp. 77
Prevalence of Adverse Effects Post-Brachytherapy on Women with Uterine Cervix Cancer in Durango, Mexicop. 81
Development of a Beam Hardening Correction Method for a MicroCT Scanner Prototypep. 85
Commissioning and Validation of the First Monte Carlo Based Dose Calculation Algorithm Commercial Treatment Planning System in Mexicop. 90
High Field Volume Coil with Unbalance Current Distribution for MRI Applications of Rodentsp. 95
Evaluation of Cardiovascular Control through Analysis of Inter Beat Interval, Systolic Blood Pressure and Photoplethysmographic Volumep. 98
Experimental Study of Diffuse Reflectance Spectral Signal at Very Close Skin-Probe Distancesp. 102
Characterization of GafChromic XR-RV2 Film and Comparator Strip Using a Flatbed Scanner in Reflection Modep. 106
Dosimetry of a Small-Animal Irradiation Model Using a 6 MV Linear Acceleratorp. 110
Preliminary Assessment of a New Data Acquisition System for the MicroPET at IFUNAMp. 114
Design of an Image Fusion Phantom for a Small Animal MicroPET/CT Scanner Prototypep. 118
Biokinetics of99mTc-Labeled Gold Nanoparticles Conjugated to Mannose for Specific Sentinel Node Detectionp. 122
2D Iterative Image Reconstruction in Dual Head Micro PET with Lookup System Matrixp. 126
Characterization of Materials for Use as Optical Phantomsp. 130
In Vivo Dose Measurements in High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Treatments for Cervical Cancer: A Project Proposalp. 134
MRI Artifacts of a Metallic Stent Derived from a Human Aorta Specimenp. 138
Image Quality Performance Measurement of the MicroPET Focus 120p. 142
Brain Imaging Using T-rays. Instrumentation Advancesp. 146
Calculation and Verification of a Planar Pencil Beam Kernel through the Hankel Transform of Measured OARs for a Radiosurgery System with Conesp. 150
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Signals Using an Analytical Transport Modelp. 154
Neutron Spectra in a 15 MV LINACp. 158
Methodology to Determinate Pupillary Responses Based in High Speed Videoculography in Clinical Eye Applicationsp. 162
Author Indexp. 167
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