The Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS) is an international collaboration based at CERN, established in 2018 with the support of the CERN Knowledge Transfer for Medical Applications (KT-MA), with the goal of developing new technologies for the …
Breast cancer (BC) is a diverse group of diseases that can be treated as a single entity through highly modifiable medical behaviour [ 1 ]. This multiplicity, which is replicated in multiple special histological grades (HG) of different types with …
The detection and isolation of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19 was reported on January, 2020 [ 1 ]. Globally, as of 2 August 2023, there have been 768.983.095 confirmed cases of …
Virtual-reality (VR) describes technologies trying to accurately simulate a virtual environment with the use of Virtual-Reality-Headsets or Virtual-Reality-Head-Mounted-Displays (VRHMDs). These devices typically consist of a screen with lenses …
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in recent years [ 1 ]. It is necessary to consider the increase in the [ 2 ] mortality rate. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), several million women are affected by breast cancer. Cancer …
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V. Diviya Prabha, R. Rathipriya, Jyotir Moy Chatterjee
Charged particle therapy is regarded as cutting-edge technology in oncology. Worldwide 125 particle therapy centers are in operation and almost 370.000 patients had been treated by the end of 2022 [ 1 ]. In more than 90% of these centers, only …
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Klemens Zink, Kilian Simon Baumann, Ulrike Theiss, Florentine Subtil, Sonja Lahrmann, Fabian Eberle, Sebastian Adeberg
For many years, the ability of particle therapy to produce highly conformal target doses with just few treatment fields has been pointed out as a key advantage over conventional photon therapy [ 1 ]. This approach, denoted intensity modulated …
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Lennart Volz, Yinxiangzi Sheng, Lin Kong, Marco Durante, Christian Graeff
Health informatics has evolved as a multidisciplinary professional field that focuses on the effective use of biomedical data, information, and knowledge to improve human health. The objective of the Health informatics discipline is to enhance the …
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Muhammet Damar, İbrahim Yüksel, Ali Emre Çetinkol, Ömer Aydın, Tuncay Küme
The healthcare sector faces a multitude of challenges such as, among others, an aging population, increasing demand for personalised care, a shortage of health professionals, suboptimal task allocation, and rising operational costs. While not a …
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Sarah van Drumpt, Tjerk Timan, Soukaina Talie, Thijs Veugen, Linda van de Burgwal
In 2019, the world witnessed the emergence of a novel coronavirus disease, commonly referred to as COVID-19. It originated in the Wuhan city of China in 2019 and then turned into a pandemic by February 2020, reaching 229 million confirmed cases …
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Neeraj Menon, Pooja Yadav, Vinayakumar Ravi, Vasundhara Acharya, V Sowmya
According to data of the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer remains one of the most significant causes of death globally – accounting for nearly one in every six deaths globally in 2020 [ 1 ]. In 2022 alone, 19.98 million new cancer cases and …
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Kristaps Paļskis, Erika Korobeinikova, Dace Bogorada-Saukuma, Anna Maria Camarda, Rebecca Taylor, Elena Benedetto, Edgars Mamis, Maija Radziņa, Andrejs Ērglis, Diana Adliene, Manjit Dosanjh, Maurizio Vretenar, Toms Torims
The European regulatory framework for Medical Devices (MD) and In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) has been going through consecutive changes since the 1970s, moving from a substantially national, subjective, and prescriptive approach towards a more …
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Leandro Pecchia, A. Maccaro, M. A. G. Matarrese, F. Folkvord, G. Fico
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is a respiratory illness outbreak unlike the world had seen in recent history, and led to over 760 million cases and 6.9 million deaths between 2019 and 2023 [ 1 , 2 ]. Public health teams …
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Nicole Irwin, Dewi Nur Aisyah, Fauziah Mauly Rahman, Logan Manikam
It is estimated that one third of the world's population will need rehabilitation at some point in their lives [ 1 ]. This implies the development of health policies that prioritize rehabilitation services. Outcome measures (OM), understood as a …
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Eloísa García-Añino, Juan Pedro Alonso, Paola Catalfamo-Formento
Codes of practice in radiotherapy dosimetry are important to standardise the delivered dose across multiple institutes and countries, ensuring consistency and enabling better understanding and comparison of patient outcomes. For BNCT there is no …
In daily clinical practice, external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) is performed using photons with energies ranging from X-rays to high mega-voltage photons up to 15 MV (even higher in some places) and electrons up to 18 MeV. Over the last 6 decades …
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Wolfgang A. G. Sauerwein, Kazuyo Igawa, Joël Herault, Piero Fossati, Saverio Altieri, Raymond L. Moss, Andrea Wittig
In healthcare systems, new technologies and medical devices (MDs) have become more significant during the latter part of the last century [ 1 ]. The increasing use of MDs contributed to the improvement of health care and its quality, leading to new …
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Elena Denisova, Eleonora Tiribilli, Alessio Luschi, Piergiorgio Francia, Leonardo Manetti, Leonardo Bocchi, Ernesto Iadanza
Due to the favourable dose profile and the advantageous radiobiological effects over photon beam radiotherapy (X-RT), carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) has gained increasing oncological favour for the treatment of radioresistant histologies and …
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Amelia Barcellini, Alexandra Charalampopoulou, Jessica Franzetti, Laura Deborah Locati, Ester Orlandi
Neuroendocrine tumours (NET) are a heterogeneous group of malignancies that shows a prevalence of 0.5% among all primary diagnosed cancers in the general population [ 1 ]. Various treatment approaches have been employed for the treatment of NETs …
Biomedical engineers provide meticulous care for MDs, procure high-end equipment, manage maintenance contracts, and oversee the overall structure of the hospital, including floor plan design. Observations from field studies carried out in SSA [ 1 – …4