Quality Control Assessment of Conventional Radiology Devices in Iran by Mohsen Asadinezhad, Mohammad Taghi Bahreyni Toossi, Ali Ebrahiminia, Masoumeh Giahi

“…Involvement of medical physicists, radiologists and radiographers in the implementation of QC programs at various stages of development, installation and use of equipment should enable the gradual improvement in equipment performance.…”
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Professional practice changes in radiotherapy physics during the COVID-19 pandemic by Jenny Bertholet, Marianne C. Aznar, Cristina Garibaldi, David Thwaites, Eduard Gershkevitsh, Daniela Thorwarth, Dirk Verellen, Ben Heijmen, Coen Hurkmans, Ludvig Muren, Kathrine Røe Redalen, Frank-André Siebert, Marco Schwarz, Wouter Van Elmpt, Dietmar Georg, Nuria Jornet, Catharine H. Clark

“…Background and purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed changes in radiotherapy (RT) departments worldwide. Medical physicists (MPs) are key healthcare professionals in maintaining safe and effective RT. …”
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Verification of Monitor unit calculations for eclipse Treatment Planning System by in- house developed spreadsheet by Hemalatha Athiyaman, Athiyaman Mayilvaganan, Arun Chougule, kumar HS

“…In house spreadsheets are developed by the medical physicists to cross-verify the dose calculated by the Treatment Planning System (TPS). …”
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Development of Automated Delivery Quality Assurance Analysis Software for Helical Tomotherapy by YH Yoon BSc, Han-Back Shin PhD, MC Han PhD, Hojin Kim PhD, DW Kim PhD, Chae-Seon Hong PhD, Jihun Kim PhD, JS Kim PhD

“…For 73 tomotherapy plans, the gamma analysis results using the developed software were compared to those analyzed by medical physicists using a commercial software package. Results The developed software successfully automated the gamma analysis for the tomotherapy delivery quality assurance. …”
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A practical implementation of risk management for the clinical introduction of online adaptive Magnetic Resonance-guided radiotherapy by Sebastian Klüter, Oliver Schrenk, Claudia Katharina Renkamp, Stefan Gliessmann, Melanie Kress, Jürgen Debus, Juliane Hörner-Rieber

“…Materials and Methods: A process failure mode, effects and criticality analysis (P-FMECA) was performed within a group of radiation therapy technologists, physicians and physicists together with an external moderator. The workflow for on-table adaptive MR-guided treatments was defined and for each step potentially hazardous situations were identified. …”
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Utilizing clinical pathways and web-based conferences to improve quality of care in a large integrated network using breast cancer radiation therapy as the model by Katherine S. Chen, Scott M. Glaser, Allison E. Garda, John A. Vargo, M. Saiful Huq, Dwight E. Heron, Sushil Beriwal

“…Subsequently, a web-based conference was conducted to educate staff physicians, physicists, and dosimetrists with goals for dose homogeneity and critical organ dosimetry. …”
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Access to Radiation Therapy: From Local to Global and Equality to Equity by Sarbani Ghosh Laskar, Shwetabh Sinha, Rahul Krishnatry, Cai Grau, Minesh Mehta, Jai Prakash Agarwal

“…The deficit in simulators, radiation oncologists, and medical physicists is even more challenging to quantify; however, the inequitable distribution is indisputable. …”
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The health system and access to treatment in patients with cervical cancer in Mexico by Eder A. Arango-Bravo, Eder A. Arango-Bravo, Eder A. Arango-Bravo, Lucely del Carmen Cetina-Pérez, Lucely del Carmen Cetina-Pérez, Lucely del Carmen Cetina-Pérez, Lucely del Carmen Cetina-Pérez, Tatiana Galicia-Carmona, Tatiana Galicia-Carmona, Tatiana Galicia-Carmona, Denisse Castro-Eguiluz, Dolores Gallardo-Rincón, Ivette Cruz-Bautista, Alfonso Duenas-Gonzalez, Alfonso Duenas-Gonzalez

“…Nevertheless, there is a shortage in almost every aspect regarding CC treatment, including oncologists, chemotherapy units, medical physicists, radiation technicians, and both teletherapy and brachytherapy facilities. …”
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Virtual Patient-Specific Quality Assurance of IMRT Using UNet++: Classification, Gamma Passing Rates Prediction, and Dose Difference Prediction by Ying Huang, Yifei Pi, Kui Ma, Xiaojuan Miao, Sichao Fu, Hua Chen, Hao Wang, Hengle Gu, Yan Shao, Yanhua Duan, Aihui Feng, Jiyong Wang, Ruxin Cai, Weihai Zhuo, Zhiyong Xu

“…The dose verification in radiotherapy quality assurance (QA) is time-consuming and places a heavy workload on medical physicists. To provide a clinical tool to perform patient specific QA accurately, the UNet++ is investigated to classify failed or pass fields (the GPR lower than 85% is considered “failed” while the GPR higher than 85% is considered “pass”), predict gamma passing rates (GPR) for different gamma criteria, and predict dose difference from virtual patient-specific quality assurance in radiotherapy. …”
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Assessing of a Radiation Therapy Sessionʼs Duration at the Stage of Pre-Radiation Preparation by M. N. Piatkevich, E. V. Titovich

“…The magnitude and degree of the deviation of the measured value from the expected one for a variety of characteristics and features have been revealed to depend on the actions of the personnel.The program developed allows medical physicists to analyze the timing parameters of the specified dosimetric planning methodologies directly on the treatment planning workstation. …”
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Jogo da Minoria: um modelo baseado em agentes aplicado ao mercado financeiro Minority Game: an agent-based model applied to financial market by Antonio Fernando Crepaldi, Fernando Fagundes Ferreira, José de Souza Rodrigues

“…<br>Over the past ten years physicists have made a significant contribution to the building of an agent-based model to reproduce the behavior of financial markets using computer simulation. …”
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Striving to Fill in Gaps between Clinical Practice and Standards: The Evolution of a Pan-Canadian Approach to Patient-Reported Outcomes Use by Amanda Caissie, Robert Olson, Lisa Barbera, Jennifer O’Donnell, Carol-Anne Davis, Jennifer Croke, Louise Bird, John Kildea, Erika Brown, Michael Brundage, Michael Milosevic

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Associations between occupation and heavy alcohol consumption in UK adults aged 40–69 years: a cross-sectional study using the UK Biobank by Andrew Thompson, Munir Pirmohamed

“…Clergy (PR = 0.20, 0.13–0.32); physicists, geologists and meteorologists (PR = 0.40, 0.25–0.65); and medical practitioners (PR = 0.40, 0.32–0.50) were least likely to be heavy drinkers. …”
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The Role of Statistic Information in the Information Society by S. S. Gerasymenko

“…In particular, using the statistic approach the main conclusions, defined by some scientists-physicists in XX century were considered. It was proved that very often these conclusions were made without taking into account the possible character of all phenomena and processes that take place in the Universe. …”
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The Contributions of Lewis Fry Richardson to Drainage Theory, Soil Physics, and the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum by Peter A. C. Raats, John H. Knight

“…Unfortunately, his results were hardly noticed by soil physicists and hydrologists, likely because they were too effectively buried in an intimidating book on weather prediction.…”
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A critical overview of thin films coating technologies for energy applications by Mohammad Istiaque Hossain, Said Mansour

“…We are convinced that our report will show substantial importance to a wider group of materials scientists, chemists, physicists, and to the wider photovoltaic community to pick the best-suited vehicle for thin film growth purposes.…”
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‘Information on the fly’: Challenges in professional communication in high technological nursing. A focus group study from a radiotherapy department in Sweden by Widmark Catarina, Tishelman Carol, Gustafsson Helena, Sharp Lena

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Focus groups discussions (FGDs) were conducted with different professional (RNs, assistant nurses, physicians, engineers and physicists) and user stakeholders. Transcripts of the FGDs were inductively analyzed by a team of researchers, to generate clinically relevant and useful data.…”
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Deformation conjecture: deforming lower dimensional integrable systems to higher dimensional ones by using conservation laws by S. Y. Lou, Xia-zhi Hao, Man Jia

“…The introduction of a large number of (D + 1)-dimensional integrable systems of this paper explores a serious challenge to all mathematicians and theoretical physicists because the traditional methods are no longer directly valid to solve these integrable equations.…”
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Failure mode and effects analysis of skin electronic brachytherapy using Esteya® unit by Blanca Ibanez-Rosello, Juan Antonio Bautista-Ballesteros, Jorge Bonaque, Francisco Celada, Françoise Lliso, Vicente Carmona, Jose Gimeno-Olmos, Zoubir Ouhib, Joan Rosello, Jose Perez-Calatayud

“…In order to establish an adequate level of quality of treatment, a risk analysis of the Esteya treatment process has been done, following the methodology proposed by the TG-100 guidelines of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Material and methods: A multidisciplinary team familiar with the treatment process was formed. …”
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Formation components of technical science in Ukraine in the 60‒70s of the XIX century by Vira Okorokova, Olha Likhachova

“…Based on a wide range of methods derived from the historical research, the progress factors in this scientific field as well as the growth of scientific schools of leading mathematicians, physicists, and other representatives of technical science were discovered. …”
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