Fig. 14.1 Typical flow patterns in peripheral arteries. (a) Laminar flow in an arterial vessel. In small vessels, blood behaves like a Newton fluid (no internal friction); therefore, the velocity…
Fig. 11.1 (a) Pathologic anatomic specimen of a premature born infant. The image shows the large size of the normal adrenal gland in comparison with the kidney with normal renculation….
Fig. 8.1 (a) A 15-year-old girl with symptoms of angina abdominalis. US investigation 3 years after resection and radiation of a rhabdomyosarcoma in the retroperitoneum between the coeliac trunk and…
Fig. 12.1 The normal ovarian blood supply. (a) Vascular supply of the ovary by the ascending branch of the uterine artery, the adnexal and tubal branches of the uterine artery…
Fig. 4.1 The electromagnetic spectrum is illustrated. Therapeutic X-ray or ionizing radiation is in the energy range of 105 eV and higher. The energy of photon beams commonly used in…
Fig. 5.1 Hypoxic regions (black) indicated by pimonidazole staining are present even in small tumors. Imaged here is a section of a small tumor derived from a human glioma xenograft…
Tumor size SRS (%) SRT (%) Total (%) Decreased 22 (34.9) 24 (33.3) 46 (34.1) No change 36 (57.1) 46 (63.8) 82 (60.7) Increased 5 (7.9) 2 (2.7) 7 (5.2)…
Fig. 6.1 The basic steps in SRS treatment planning Stereotactic Localization Because SRS involves the delivery of a very high dose of radiation in either a single delivery or a…
Fig. 62.1 (a) Example of invasive eye fixation by applying two sutures in the rectus muscles and attaching these sutures to the Leksell stereotactic frame. (b) Example of noninvasive eye…
Fig. 25.1 Graph illustrating the effect of fractionation on the cell survival of tumor cells (A) as well as normal cells (B). Since normal cells have intact repair mechanisms, whereas…
