Image guided superficial radiation therapy (IGSRT) is a novel technology which combines traditional superficial radiation therapy (SRT) with high resolution dermal ultrasound (HRDUS) to treat non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC). Since development, IGSRT use has expanded dramatically in outpatient clinics...
A device that uses high frequency electromagnetic waves to accelerate charged particles such as electrons to high energies through a linear tube. The high-energy electron beam itself can be used for treating superficial tumours or it can be made to strike a target to produce high-energy (MV) ...
Radio-guided surgery (RGS) is a surgical technique developed about 60 years ago that is crucial for those tumours for which resection is the only possible therapy [54]. It allows the surgeon to assess the completeness of the tumour lesion resection in realtime, minimizing the amount of healthy...
Superficial biopsies and transjugular liver biopsies are categorized as low-risk, while solid organ and deep non-organ biopsies are categorized as high risk for bleeding. The SIR guidelines recommend the correction of the International Normalized Ratio (INR) to 2.0 to 3.0 for low-bleeding-risk ...
Commonly used methods for generating local hyperthermia include the use of radiofrequency,20 microwaves,21 laser,22 or superficial hot water applicators.23 Temperature-sensitive DDS can be used as an adjuvant to thermal ablation to reduce the potential for tumor regrowth in regions of sublethal ...
For superficial anaesthesia, lidocaine buffered in sodium bicarbonate may be used to reduce the initial stinging sensation of the lidocaine injection [41,58]. In the case of allergy to lidocaine, alternative drugs have to be used. Even with optimal local anaesthesia, some discomfort or pain may ...
This perivenous damage becomes especially significant during the treatment of short superficial perforating veins. Due to the poor treatment of these superficial veins, varicose veins reoccur at a rate of 20 to 40 percent22. In particular, the unwanted thermal dose (heat) deposited into the ablat...
The HDR brachytherapy plans were superior to 50 kV superficial photon plans for IORT in all dosimetric parameters except for the heart and rib dosimetric parameters. Prescription dose of 12.5 Gy to the planning target volume for evaluation yielded a dose to 95 percent of the balloon surface of ...
it is always used for superficial tumors and is combined with drug treatments.27,28 On the basis of these studies, we loaded IR780 into liposomes modified by FA (FA-IR780-NP) and applied it to ovarian cancer, a malignant tumor with high mortality located deep in the body, to evaluate ...
Ultraviolet (UV; 200–400 nm) and visible wavelengths (400–650 nm) have been used for disinfection and in vitro molecular diagnosis (e.g. fluorescence microscopy) but are limited for real-time in vivo imaging due to superficial tissue penetration of light and autofluorescence from endogenous ...