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

, by Brandan, Maria-Ester; Herrera-Martinez, Flor; Ramirez-R, Veronica; Rodriguez-Villafuerte, Mercedes

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ISBN: 9780735408647 | 0735408645
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/31/2011

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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).

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Organization	p. xi
Plenary and Invited Talks
Evaluation of Neutron Component in Patients under High Energy Radiotherapy by Means of an On-Line and in vivo Procedure	p. 1
An Overview of the Development and Evaluation of a Benchtop MicroCT Scanner	p. 7
Artificial Neural Networks in Spectrometry and Neutron Dosimetry	p. 12
Irradiation Design for an Experimental Murine Model	p. 18
Dosimetry in Steep Dose-rate Gradient Radiation Fields: A Challenge in Clinical Applications	p. 23
Preliminary Analysis of the Social and Scientific Impact of the UAEM-ENIN M.Sc. and D.Sc. Graduate Programme in Medical Physics	p. 29
Contributions
Ambient Dose Equivalent Measured at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología Department of Nuclear Medicine	p. 35
Validation of a Custom-made Software for DQE Assessment in Mammography Digital Detectors	p. 39
Neutron Spectra and H^* (10) in a 15 MV Linac	p. 44
The UNAM M.Sc. Program in Medical Physics Enters Its Teen Years	p. 48
Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Project for an Integral Oncology Center at the Oaxaca High Specialization Regional Hospital	p. 52
Neonatal Videokeratometer: Basic Design of a Portable Device and Evaluation Method	p. 56
Dosimetric Quantities for Computed Tomography Examinations of Pediatric Patients on the Thoracic and Abdominal Regions	p. 60
Effect of Embolization Material in the Calculation of Dose Deposition in Arteriovenous Malformations	p. 64
Modeling the Cell Muscle Membrane from Normal and Desmin- or Dystrophin- Null Mice as an Elastic System	p. 68
On the Construction of Models for Electrical Conduction in Biological Tissues	p. 73
Ferroelectrics: Development, Applications and Potentiality in Medical Physics and Electrical Engineering	p. 77
Prevalence of Adverse Effects Post-Brachytherapy on Women with Uterine Cervix Cancer in Durango, Mexico	p. 81
Development of a Beam Hardening Correction Method for a MicroCT Scanner Prototype	p. 85
Commissioning and Validation of the First Monte Carlo Based Dose Calculation Algorithm Commercial Treatment Planning System in Mexico	p. 90
High Field Volume Coil with Unbalance Current Distribution for MRI Applications of Rodents	p. 95
Evaluation of Cardiovascular Control through Analysis of Inter Beat Interval, Systolic Blood Pressure and Photoplethysmographic Volume	p. 98
Experimental Study of Diffuse Reflectance Spectral Signal at Very Close Skin-Probe Distances	p. 102
Characterization of GafChromic XR-RV2 Film and Comparator Strip Using a Flatbed Scanner in Reflection Mode	p. 106
Dosimetry of a Small-Animal Irradiation Model Using a 6 MV Linear Accelerator	p. 110
Preliminary Assessment of a New Data Acquisition System for the MicroPET at IFUNAM	p. 114
Design of an Image Fusion Phantom for a Small Animal MicroPET/CT Scanner Prototype	p. 118
Biokinetics of^99mTc-Labeled Gold Nanoparticles Conjugated to Mannose for Specific Sentinel Node Detection	p. 122
2D Iterative Image Reconstruction in Dual Head Micro PET with Lookup System Matrix	p. 126
Characterization of Materials for Use as Optical Phantoms	p. 130
In Vivo Dose Measurements in High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Treatments for Cervical Cancer: A Project Proposal	p. 134
MRI Artifacts of a Metallic Stent Derived from a Human Aorta Specimen	p. 138
Image Quality Performance Measurement of the MicroPET Focus 120	p. 142
Brain Imaging Using T-rays. Instrumentation Advances	p. 146
Calculation and Verification of a Planar Pencil Beam Kernel through the Hankel Transform of Measured OARs for a Radiosurgery System with Cones	p. 150
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Signals Using an Analytical Transport Model	p. 154
Neutron Spectra in a 15 MV LINAC	p. 158
Methodology to Determinate Pupillary Responses Based in High Speed Videoculography in Clinical Eye Applications	p. 162
Author Index	p. 167
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Eleventh Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics: 19-22 March 2010 Mexico City. Mexico

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