{"title":"[The characteristics of managing cancer patients during gamma teletherapy].","authors":"Iu I Vorob'ev","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gamma-beam therapy of cancer patients is accompanied by general and local radiation reactions, their degree depending on numerous factors (a tumor site, an area of irradiated tissues and a value of a total absorbed dose). Preventive and therapeutic measures during radiotherapy allow the reduction of severity of a course of general and local radiation reactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 12","pages":"38-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12912843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Clinico-electrocardiographic evaluation of the state of the cardiovascular system inpersonnel engaged in liquidating the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Station].","authors":"N A Metliaeva, N M Nadezhina","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paper is concerned with analysis of the results of clinico-electrocardiographic investigation of 107 rescuers, engaged in the elimination of the effects of the Chernobyl accident. A high percent (27.2%) of the detectability of borderline arterial hypertension was noted among the rescuers (aged to 39) that was determined by a strong psychoemotional tension resulting from work and radiation phobia.</p>","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 6","pages":"25-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13023507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The current state of physicotechnical and mathematical support for plane scintigraphy].","authors":"B Ia Narkevich","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 11","pages":"57-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13102970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V I Popov, O A Kochetkov, A A Molokanov, Iu V Abramov, L G Lapa
{"title":"[Establishing of doses from the internal irradiation for the personnel of the Chernobyl AES and persons detailed in 1986-1987].","authors":"V I Popov, O A Kochetkov, A A Molokanov, Iu V Abramov, L G Lapa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paper is concerned with the results of measurements of characteristics of the air media in the zone of the damaged reactor as with the assessment of doses from internal irradiation on the basis of calculations of air media parameters and the results of actual measurements of the uptake and content of radionuclides in the personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station and persons sent on mission there in 1986-1987, the results being obtained by indirect and direct biophysical methods of control of internal irradiation. The calculated data are well in accord with the results of actual measurements of the contents of radionuclides in the body. Internal irradiation of all tissues and organs, determined by the inhalation of a mixture of radionuclides, worked almost completely within the first year following the accident, the thyroid being the critical organ. In the next years internal irradiation for the personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was determined entirely by transuranic elements and was about 0.1 M.P.D annually for bone tissue. The value of a mean effective equivalent dose from internal irradiation in 50 years is 85 mSv for professionals, and a contribution of internal irradiation to the whole-body one over the first well as is 13%.</p>","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 2","pages":"33-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13152369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Radionuclide diagnosis of interstitial pulmonary edema].","authors":"M Kh Khodzhibekov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perfusion scintigraphy of the lungs has shown that a reverse direction of postural reactions of the pulmonary blood flow is observed in patients with mitral valvular disease: perfusion of the upper lung rather than the lower lung increases. It is accounted for by the action of gravitation on capillary hydrostatic pressure resulting in the localization of interstitial edema in pulmonary venous hypertension mainly in the lower lung, its microcirculatory bed being compressed and the blood flow redistributed to the opposite upper lung. Therefore successive perfusion scintigraphy of the lungs in the vertical position and in the lateral position with a RP administered twice, can serve as a sensitive test for diagnosis of interstitial lung edema in various pathological conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 2","pages":"7-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13154347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V N Korsunskiĭ, N F Tarasov, G E Kodina, A B Malinin
{"title":"[Evaluation of the quality of radiopharmaceutics].","authors":"V N Korsunskiĭ, N F Tarasov, G E Kodina, A B Malinin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors considered the interrelationship of clinical requirements and analytical indicators of quality for a group of pharmaceuticals: radionuclide purity (by the criteria of dose load and the quality of visualization); radiochemical purity (interrelationship with a necessary level of accumulation in investigated organs); chemical admixtures (by the criteria of safety and influence on the diagnostic quality; clinical criteria of quality were under discussion); a coefficient of differential accumulation in the system: organ under study-adjacent tissues; specificity; indices of pharmacokinetics, etc. Correct and all-round evaluation of RP quality on the basis of the above criteria determines, to a great extent, a choice of a labeled compound to be used in a specific radionuclide diagnostic method.</p>","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 4","pages":"27-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13190033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Radiation therapy of disseminated laryngopharyngeal cancer].","authors":"Iu I Vorob'ev, A I Pechurchik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paper is concerned with the long-term results of therapy of 68 laryngopharyngeal cancer patients at advanced stages. The 3-year survival after a radical split course of gamma-beam therapy was 29 +/- 7.7%. A degree of tumor cell differentiation made no effect on therapeutic results.</p>","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 5","pages":"51-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13190531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Metastases of poorly differentiated nasopharyngeal cancer to the bones (a practical case)].","authors":"A I Pechurchik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 5","pages":"52-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13190532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iu N Shteĭngardt, L I Volkova, V I Chernov, V Iu Usov
{"title":"[Regional lung perfusion in patients with chronic nonspecific lung diseases based on scintigraphic study data].","authors":"Iu N Shteĭngardt, L I Volkova, V I Chernov, V Iu Usov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perfusion scintigraphy of the lungs with 99mTc-labeled microspheres was used for a study of changes of regional perfusion of lesser circulation in patients with chronic bronchitis of a varying degree of disturbed pulmonary hemodynamics. Even before a stable rise of pulmonary vascular resistance and development of pulmonary arterial hypertension, chronic bronchitis was characterized by redistribution of the blood flow from the lower parts of the lungs to the upper ones, which progressed with disturbance of pulmonary arterial circulation and the development of chronic cor pulmonale. This redistribution could be determined by an earlier and more important rise of the vascular tone and resistance to the blood flow in the lower parts of the lungs. The use of scintigraphic indices of the upper and lower parts (U/L) perfusion ratio led to adequate assessment of a degree of redistribution of the pulmonary blood flow in patients with chronic bronchitis.</p>","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 5","pages":"6-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13190535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Formation of small fields using tele-gamma therapy devices].","authors":"L S Galina, I A Karpova, N A Liutova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Radiotherapy of certain tumor sites requires small-size fields of irradiation (less than or equal to 4 cm) with a good dose plateau and a sharp dose gradient on the field border. For this purpose a kit of accessories to beta-beam units includes a device with disposable collimators forming round fields with 20, 30 and 40 mm diameters, an oblong field 20 X 30 mm and segmental fields with axes 20 X 26 and 26 X 32 mm at a distance of 75 cm from a source. Dosimetric characterization of collimators was studied; dose fields formed by open beams using collimators were compared.</p>","PeriodicalId":76145,"journal":{"name":"Meditsinskaia radiologiia","volume":"36 4","pages":"40-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13190725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}