Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-178).

We investigate the difference between surface matching and target matching for pelvic radiation image guidance. The uniqueness of our study is that all patients have multiple CT-on-rails (CTOR) scans to compare to corresponding AlignRT images. Ten patients receiving pelvic radiation were enrolled in this study. Two simulation CT scans were performed in supine and prone positions for each patient. Body surface contours were generated in treatment planning system and exported to AlignRT to serve as reference images. During treatment day, the patient was aligned to treatment isocenter with room lasers, and then scanned with both CTOR and AlignRT. Image-guidance shifts were calculated for both modalities by comparison to the simulation CT and the differences between them were analyzed for both supine and prone positions, respectively. These procedures were performed for each patient once per week for five weeks. The difference of patient displacement between AlignRT and CTOR was analyzed. For supine position, five patients had an average difference of displacement between AlignRT and CTOR along any direction (vertical, longitudinal, and lateral) greater than 0.5 cm, and one patient greater than 1 cm. Four patients had a maximum difference greater than 1 cm. For prone position, seven patients had an average difference greater than 0.5 cm, and three patients greater than 1 cm. Nine patients had a maximum difference greater than 1 cm. The difference of displacement between AlignRT and CTOR was greater for the prone position than for the supine position. For the patients studied here, surface matching does not appear to be an advisable image-guidance approach for pelvic radiation therapy for patients with either supine or prone position. There appears to be a potential for large alignment discrepancies (up to 2.25 cm) between surface matching and target matching.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2004. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Yes / When lying supine, due to the reaction force from the mattress acting mostly through the heel, an external knee-extension joint-torque is induced that keeps the knee fully extended. This torque becomes zero if the feet are hung over the end of the support. This study investigated, in patients with knee-osteoarthritis (knee-OA) who routinely sleep supine, whether a change to such a sleeping position would ameliorate the knee pain and associated physical problems they suffer. Patients were recruited (General-Practitioners Centre, UK) over a 9-month period; those eligible (51/70) were randomly allocated to an intervention (65% female; age 71.5 [11.3] yrs; BMI, 29.20 [5.54] kg/m2; knee-OA severity, 20 mild–mod/3 severe) or control group (63% female; age, 68.3 [9.7] yrs; BMI, 28.69 [5.51] kg/m2; knee-OA severity, 17 mild–mod/2 severe). The primary outcome was improvements (0 [worst] to 100 [best]) in knee pain at 3 months and was rated in the Knee-Injury-and-Osteoarthritis-Outcome-Score questionnaire (KOOS). Secondary outcomes were improvements (0–100) in the other four KOOS-subscales. There were no differences between groups in KOOS outcomes at baseline, and there were no changes in KOOS outcomes in the control group at 3 months. Relative to the baseline KOOS values in Knee-Pain (50.1), Symptoms (52.5), Activities-of-Daily-Living (53.8) and Quality-of-Life (31.5), were all seen to improve at 3 months in the intervention group (by between 11.9 and 12.9); however, when comparing to controls, only the improvements in the subscale Activities-of-Daily-Living (which improved by 12.2) were statistically significant. Findings indicate that for those with knee-OA who routinely sleep supine, sleeping with the feet over the end of the mattress (to prevent the knee being pushed into/held in full extension) can help ameliorate the physical problems they suffer.

Studies of human response to whole-body vibration, such those encountered in heavy machinery and ground and aerial transportation, have highlighted the critical role of the head-neck posture of seated human occupants and the role of the transport system of a supine human on the severity of the transmitted vibration to the human body. Novel passive and muscle-based models are introduced in this work to predict the biodynamical response of the human under whole-body vibration in seated and supine postures. Planar and three-dimensional models representing the human head-neck system under different seated postures and fore-aft and multiple-axis whole-body vibration are first introduced. In these models, the head-neck system is represented by rigid links connected via spring-damper components representing the soft-tissue and connecting elements between the bones. Additional muscle components are added to some models. The muscle components comprise additional mass, spring, and damper elements arranged in a special order to capture the effect of changes in the displacement, velocity, acceleration, and jerk. The results show that the proposed models are able to predict the displacement and acceleration of the head under different vibration files, with the muscle-based models showing better performance than the passive models. The second set of models is introduced in this work to investigate the effect of the underlying transport system conditions on the response of supine humans under vertical and multiple-axis whole-body vibration. In these models, the supine human body is represented by three rigid links representing the head, torso/arms, and legs. The links are connected via rotational and translational joints, and therefore, it is expected that the models can capture the coupling effects between adjacent segments. The joints comprise translational and rotational spring-damper components that represent the soft tissue and the connecting elements between the segments. The contact surfaces between the supine human and the underlying transport system were modeled using spring-damper elements. Two underlying transport systems were considered, including a rigid support and a long spinal board attached to a military litter. The results showed that the proposed models were able to predict the effect of the transport systems on the human response under different vibration conditions.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-117).

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No. of bitstreams: 1 andrenoronhaarvellos.pdf: 6808287 bytes, checksum: 93e22153b8dde05493e1fda7161ac573 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-26 / Introdução: Impulsionada pelo crescimento da endourologia, a busca de novas técnicas para o acesso percutâneo, com intuito de tornar o procedimento ainda menos invasivo e mais seguro, teve como marco os trabalhos de Valdivia Uría, que propôs e descreveu primeiramente a técnica de punção do paciente em decúbito dorsal inclinado, mostrando menor tempo de procedimento e melhora nos parâmetros cardiorrespiratórios durante sua realização em relação à técnica clássica em decúbito ventral, com sucesso terapêutico e morbidade semelhantes. Mesmo após mais de 20 anos da descrição da sua técnica e com a publicação de outras séries de casos por outros autores, a mesma não teve a difusão esperada. Pacientes e métodos: Foi realizada análise de exames de tomografia computadorizada de 71 pacientes através de simulações de nefrostomia percutânea nos decúbitos dorsal e ventral, correlacionando-se os resultados com variáveis antropométricas e quantificação da gordura abdominal no seu padrão de distribuição nos compartimentos visceral e subcutâneo. Resultados: Não houve diferença estatística entre o número de lesões de órgãos abdominais para os diferentes decúbitos nas simulações realizadas no plano axial (p=0,5621). Nas simulações oblíquas, os resultados mostraram significância estatística da diferença do decúbito no risco de lesão, sendo o resultado desfavorável ao decúbito ventral (p=0,0295). O órgão mais freqüentemente sob risco foi o cólon, seguido de longe pelo intestino delgado. A avaliação indireta do risco de lesão através de medidas da distância do cólon ao rim mostrou maior proximidade destes na posição de decúbito ventral, para ambos os lados, de forma estatisticamente significativa. Quanto à metodologia de análise, observou-se maior número de lesões nas simulações realizadas no plano axial do que nas simulações oblíquas tanto no decúbito ventral (p= 0,0274) como no dorsal (p= 0,0002). Nas simulações no plano axial, os pacientes que tiveram órgãos lesados mostraram de forma estatisticamente significativa menores peso, índice de massa corpórea (IMC) e quantidade de gordura visceral independente do decúbito. No plano oblíquo, não foi observada associação estatística com tais variáveis. Conclusão: Houve maior risco de lesão de órgãos abdominais (principalmente o cólon) no decúbito ventral, tanto através das simulações de punção, quanto através da análise indireta de risco através das medidas de proximidade do cólon com o rim. A metodologia com as simulações no plano oblíquo mostrou-se mais adequada, com resultados mais próximos das grandes séries de casos onde o procedimento foi realizado. Em relação aos dados antropométricos e padrão de distribuição da gordura abdominal por tomografia computadorizada (TC), os pacientes que tiveram órgãos lesados apresentaram de forma estatisticamente significativa menores peso, IMC e área de gordura visceral nas simulações no plano axial, para a análise conjunta das metodologias em ambos os decúbitos e para a análise conjunta da ocorrência independente da metodologia ou do decúbito. Na metodologia de análise no plano oblíquo, os baixos valores de p para as variáveis peso (0,07) e IMC (0,06) podem representar uma tendência em relação ao risco de lesão, talvez com significância estatística limitada pelo tamanho da amostra. / Introduction: The search for less invasive and safer techniques of percutaneous access in endourology had, as landmark, the studies undergone by Valdivia Uria, who first proposed and described access through the inclined supine position, with shortened procedure time and better cardiorespiratory parameters, compared with the traditional access in the prone position, and also showing similar success and morbidity rates. Although more than 20 years have elapsed since the first publication of the technique, and despite publications by other authors, the technique has not been so widely embraced as expected. Patients and methods: 71 patients underwent simulated percutaneous nephrostomy through computed tomography (CT), in both the supine and prone positions. The results were correlated with anthropometric variables and quantification of abdominal fat distribution in the visceral and subcutaneous compartments. Results: There was no statistical difference between the number of abdominal organ injuries in the two different positions in the axial plane (p=0.5621). In oblique simulations, the difference in the risk of injury to abdominal organs was statistically significant between the two positions, with more injuries happening in the prone position (p=0.0295). The colon was the most frequently injured organ, followed by the small intestine in a distant second. Indirect injury risk assessment by measurement of the colon-kidney distance showed statistically significant greater proximity of these organs in the the prone position, on both sides. Concerning the analysis methodology, there were a greater number of injuries in the axial plane than in the oblique simulations, both in the prone position (p=0.0274) and in the supine position (p=0.0002). In the axial plane simulations, patients who suffered organ injuries had statistically significant lower weight, Body Mass Index (BMI) and visceral fat amount, regardless of the position. In the oblique plane, no such statistical association was found. Conclusion: There was greater risk of injury to abdominal organs (mainly the colon) in the prone position, both in puncture simulations and in indirect risk assessment of risk through the measurement of the colon-kidney distance. Simulation in the oblique plane was the most adequate method, as it provided results that were closer to the ones from large case series in which the procedure was performed. Concerning the anthropometric factors and the pattern of CT-assessed abdominal fat distribution, patients who suffered organ injuries had statistically significant lower weight, BMI and visceral fat amount, in the axial plane, for analysis of the two methods in both positions and for analysis of the injuries regardless of method and position. In the oblique plane analysis methodology the low p values for weight (0.07) and BMI (0.06) may represent a tendency towards the injury risk, maybe with a limited statistical significance owing to the sample size.

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Yes / Aim: Pelvic radiography is used for the identification of hip joint changes, including pathologies such as osteoarthritis. Several studies have recommended that the position for this radiological procedure should be standing, not supine, to reflect the functional appearances of the hip joint. The aim of this review was to evaluate pelvis radiography positioning with respect to the image appearances and information provided for clinical decision-making. Aside from this, potential recommendations to the radiographic technique for an erect pelvis projection will be considered. Method: A literature search was performed using databases/abstract systems (ScienceDirect, Web of Science, PubMed, and MEDLINE). Only articles written in English were included. Results: Twenty-five articles were identified. Findings from the review describe the effect of repositioning from supine to erect on a series of specific hip measurements. These include pelvic tilt, joint space width, and the acetabular component. Conclusion: Evidence within the literature illustrates that in several studies, there were differences when repositioning from supine to standing for a number of pelvic metrics. Standing positioning is promoted by some authors since this may facilitate the early diagnosis of hip joint pathology and assist in the planning of surgical interventions. Literature is very limited on how to optimally perform erect pelvis radiography, and this should be an area for future research.