Een uitdaging binnen radiotherapie van longtumoren is het feit dat deze gedurende de ademhaling bewegen. De mate van tumorbeweging heeft invloed op de grootte van het Planning Target Volume (PTV) en op de dosis in omliggende organs at risk (OARs). Een mogelijke oplossing voor het beperken van beweging …

Bestraling van longtumoren blijft een voortdurende uitdaging door beweging tijdens ademhaling (1). Een tumor kan, afhankelijk van de locatie, tot wel 20 millimeter bewegen in inferior-superior richting (2). Een afname van deze beweging kan resulteren in een lagere dosis in omliggende organen, ofwel Organs …

RATIONALE: Disturbed protein metabolism may result in malnutrition. A non-invasive low cost clinical tool to measure protein metabolism is lacking. Explorative research (n=1) with a newly developed non-invasive 13C-protein breath test suggested a decrease in protein oxidation after a protein restricted …

RATIONALE: Disturbed protein metabolism may result in malnutrition. A non-invasive low cost clinical tool to measure protein metabolism is lacking. Explorative research (n=1) with a newly developed non-invasive 13C-protein breath test suggested a decrease in protein oxidation after a protein restricted …

Background Pre-hospital spinal immobilisation by emergency medical services (EMS) staff is currently the standard of care in cases of suspected spinal column injuries. There is, however, a lack of data on the characteristics of patients who received spinal immobilisation during the pre-hospital phase …

Introduction: The kinetics of protein oxidation, monitored in breath, and its contribution to the whole body protein status is not well established. Objectives: To analyze protein oxidation in various metabolic conditions we developed/validated a 13C-protein oxidation breath test using low enriched milk …

De stabiliteit en reproduceerbaarheid van de thoraxwand positie tijdens breath-hold bestralingen is bepaald en vergeleken met bestralingen zonder breath-hold. Met behulp van de Mamma Respiration Offline beschikbaar via de software TheraviewNT is onderzocht wat het verschil is in de inter- en intrafractie …

The capacity to make music and understand it is an evolutionary development not shared by animals. Learning to play an instrument has been shown to involve the development of larger brain volume. A strong correlation has been found between high musical activity and preservation of non-verbal memory, …

Chest physical therapy (CPT) is a widely used intervention for patients with airway diseases. The main goal is to facilitate secretion transport and thereby decrease secretion retention in the airways. Historically, conventional CPT has consisted of a combination of forced expirations (directed cough …