When treating cancer by radiation therapy it is always the goal to irradiate the tumour as much as possible and to spare the healthy tissue around it. For this a new type of radiation therapy called Volumetric Modulated ARC Therapy (VMAT) has been developed. During VMAT treatment the radiation machine …

Cancer is a worldwidehuman health problem.This is why much effortis put in finding solutions and treatments for this disease. One of the emerging adjuvant cancer treatments, hyperthermia, is applied by heating the tumourtissue, and is shown to increase the effects of radio and/ or chemotherapy. Because …

The treatment of tumours in cancer patients have become more advanced and thus more complex. The verification of the dose distribution, calculated by clinical physicists, have thus become more complicated. VSL has started the development on measurements of absolute dose distributions in an antrhopomorphic …

Doel: In deze systematische review is door middel van literatuuronderzoek het effect van spiegeltherapie op fantoompijn bij patiënten na een unilaterale amputatie onderzocht. Methode: Artikelen over spiegeltherapie bij fantoompijn zijn gezocht door twee fysiotherapeuten in opleiding in de databanken …

In this report the properties of the E-field sheet have been measured. Also the connection between the E-field sheet and the pc has been developed. For visualisation of the data a GUI has been made in Matlab which also reads out the data from the DAQ card. Before a measurement on the clinical equipment …

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the prevalence of phantom (limb) pain over time and to analyse factors associated with phantom (limb) pain in a prospective cohort of amputees. DESIGN: A multicentre longitudinal study. PATIENTS: One hundred and thirty-four patients scheduled for amputation were included. METHODS: …

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the impact of an amputation and of phantom pain on the subjective well-being of amputees. Sixteen lower-limb amputees were interviewed. A semi-structured interview and two Visual Analogue Scales were used. To interpret the results, a new socio-medical …

PURPOSE: Walking ability in general and specifically for lower limb amputees is of major importance for social mobility and ADL independence. Walking determines prosthesis prescription. The aim of this study was to mathematically analyse factors influencing claimed walking distance of lower limb amputees …

PURPOSE: To analyse how decisions to dichotomise the frequency and impediment of phantom pain into absent and present influence the outcome of studies by performing a sensitivity analysis on an existing database. METHOD: Five hundred and thirty-six subjects were recruited from the database of an orthopaedic …

Bijna alle mensen met een amputatie hebben in meer of mindere mate last van fantoomverschijnselen. Deze verschijnselen kunnen het dagelijks leven van deze patiënten behoorlijk beïnvloeden. Ondanks het feit dat fantoompijn vaak voorkomt na een amputatie, wordt toch maar een kleine groep patiënten voor …