1.Investigation and analysis on actuality and demands of scientific researchers in state clinical research facility of TCM
Yu ZHANG ; Ran AN ; Liyun HE ; Lina CHEN ; Shuyun LIU ; Huayang CAI ; Kai YANG ; Qiyue YANG ; Ronghu CHEN ; Sicheng WANG
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2010;32(6):523-524
Objective To investigate and analysis the actuality and demands of scientific researchers in state clinical research facility of TCM, in order to provide evidences for policy making. Methods All the trainees taken part in the meeting for the training of clinical research method were assigned to answer the self-designed questionnaire. Results Of all these people, 47.58 percent people had senior professional title, 84.14 percent people had doctorate or master degree, 57.24 percent people had participated in project research at provincial or ministerial level as key personnel, 35.17 percent people had participated in a key disease research as directors, 65.52 percent people had taken methodology training of clinical research,30.34% of who trained by evidence-based medicine. The majority of these people had clear understanding in methodology of clinical research, who believed that evidence-based medicine and system evaluation are the most difficult subjects to understand and practice, hoping to learn more about the knowledge on statistics. Conclusion Clinical researchers of state clinical research facility of TCM had sound basis for scientific research, but relatively lacking of key disease research and systematic knowledge of scientific methodology, which needed to be enhanced.
2.Management Practice for Ethical Review of Clinical Research of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Zhibo XIONG ; Shuwen YANG ; Jie QIAO ; Hua BAI ; Jingqing HU ; Ningning XIONG ; Chunbo XU ; Ronghu CHEN ; Sicheng WANG
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2014;(4):683-687
From the point of view of ethics review work situation of our country, the existing capacity of our review of ethical problems in development are analyzed, a preliminary summary of the Chinese medicine ethics review ca-pacity development, systematically analyzes the Assessment Human Research Protection System of TCM and Chinese medicine clinical research ethics review platform evaluation work, and to improve the ethical review system to perfect supervision system, improve the medical ethics review standards and guidelines, carrying out the innovation and con-struction of ethical review professional knowledge training, to promote Chinese medicine ethics review certification and accreditation system construction work and Chinese medical ethics review of the clinical research objective, the practice of ethical review management of Chinese medicine are discussed.
3.Transform routine medical accelerators to achieve Flash-RT and physical performance measurements
Leijie MA ; Ronghu MAO ; Hongchang LEI ; Hong GE ; Peng CHEN ; Han LIU ; Bing LI ; Hui LUO
Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 2022;31(11):1022-1027
Objective:To investigate the feasibility of transforming conventional medical accelerator to achieve ultra-high dose rate required to achieve Flash radiotherapy (Flash-RT), and to understand the physical properties of the Flash-RT beam.Methods:By transforming the Varian 23CX medical accelerator, the radiation average dose rate at the isocenter was not less than 40 Gy/s. The relevant physical measurement scheme was designed to accurately measure the actual radiation dose rate of different source skin distance (SSD) conditions, the percent depth dose (PDD) curve and the off-axis dose distribution of the beam.Results:The average dose rate of 9 MeV electron beam after the transformation was measured using the HD-V2 type film, the average dose rate of 3 s was 97.9 Gy/s, and the average dose rate of 6 s was 99.27 Gy/s. When the SSD was 100 cm, 80 cm and 60 cm, the average dose rate of 9 MeV electron beam after the transformation was 99.3 Gy/s, 168 Gy/s and 297.5 Gy/s, respectively. After the transformation, the R100 of the 9 MeV beam was 2.2 cm underwater, R50 was 3.87 cm underwater, the electron range Rp was 4.58 cm, and the maximum possible energy Ep,0 on the phantom surface was 9.28 MeV. These parameters were slightly higher than those of the conventional 9 MeV beam, manifested with slight increase in the surface dose and widening high dose flat area. The overall deposit dose distribution exhibited the highest central axis and the increase in dose declines from the axis distance. Under the condition that the field size was 20 cm×20 cm and the SSD was 100 cm, the FWHM of the vertical and horizontal off-axis dose distribution curves were 16.6 cm and 16.4 cm, respectively. Conclusion:By transforming conventional medical accelerator, the average dose rate of the beam at the isocycle meets the requirement of Flash-RT, and the average dose rate under the condition of 60 cm SSD is much higher than the requirement of at least 40 Gy/s for Flash-RT.
4.Clinical study on structural chest zones of gynecomastia
Lingfeng CHEN ; Baojin WU ; Sida PAN ; Zhaoping ZHOU ; Xinjie TANG ; Ronghu KE
Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery 2020;36(12):1355-1359
Objective:To discuss the clinical significance of structural chest zones for gynecomastia.Methods:A total of 687 gynecomastia patients, aged from 14 to 45 years old, with an average age of 27.0, were admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery, Huashan Hospital Fudan University from January 2012 to December 2018. Simon classification was used to record. Conduct Simon classification according to the preoperative measurement of the chest. Surgical area design, photo analysis, breast ultrasound examination and Derriford appearance scale evaluation were conducted as well. Six zones can be divided as follows: zone 0 nipple-areola zone, zone 1 gynecomastia zone, zone 2 accessory-breast zone, zone 3 lateral-roll zone, zone 4 IMF(inframammary fold) zone, zone T relative-contraindication zone. Positive and lateral images of the chest were taken before and one week, one month, three months, six months, and 12 months after the operation, and the preoperative and postoperative changes of each structural zone were compared. At the follow-up of 12 months after the operation, patients’ satisfaction was counted.Results:687 patients, according to Simon classification, were divided toⅠ degreein 65 cases, Ⅱa degree in 257 cases, Ⅱb degreein 194 cases, Ⅲ degree in 171 cases. Before operation, except for Simon Ⅰ degree in 65 cases showed just raised to 0 zone, most of the rest of the patients contains 1 zone raised, 2-4 zones come in different patients. After liposuction and glandular stripping were performed in different zones, postoperative follow-up was conducted one week, one month, three months, six months, and 12 months after the operation. The dynamic observation was made of the change process of chest shape shaping during the follow-up, whether there were postoperative complications, poor local shape, or bad regional shape. Evaluation results of patient satisfaction 12 months after surgery: among the 687 patients, there were 634 patients with 10 points of satisfaction, and 53 patients with 8-9 points, including 48 patients of zone 0 and zone 1, three patients of zone 3, and 2 patients of zone 4.Conclusions:The structural chest zones of gynecomastia provides plastic surgeons and male patients with simple, intuitive, and highly recognized preoperative evaluation, which can provide appropriate, simplified, and accurate guidance for the selection of surgical methods.
5.Clinical study on structural chest zones of gynecomastia
Lingfeng CHEN ; Baojin WU ; Sida PAN ; Zhaoping ZHOU ; Xinjie TANG ; Ronghu KE
Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery 2020;36(12):1355-1359
Objective:To discuss the clinical significance of structural chest zones for gynecomastia.Methods:A total of 687 gynecomastia patients, aged from 14 to 45 years old, with an average age of 27.0, were admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery, Huashan Hospital Fudan University from January 2012 to December 2018. Simon classification was used to record. Conduct Simon classification according to the preoperative measurement of the chest. Surgical area design, photo analysis, breast ultrasound examination and Derriford appearance scale evaluation were conducted as well. Six zones can be divided as follows: zone 0 nipple-areola zone, zone 1 gynecomastia zone, zone 2 accessory-breast zone, zone 3 lateral-roll zone, zone 4 IMF(inframammary fold) zone, zone T relative-contraindication zone. Positive and lateral images of the chest were taken before and one week, one month, three months, six months, and 12 months after the operation, and the preoperative and postoperative changes of each structural zone were compared. At the follow-up of 12 months after the operation, patients’ satisfaction was counted.Results:687 patients, according to Simon classification, were divided toⅠ degreein 65 cases, Ⅱa degree in 257 cases, Ⅱb degreein 194 cases, Ⅲ degree in 171 cases. Before operation, except for Simon Ⅰ degree in 65 cases showed just raised to 0 zone, most of the rest of the patients contains 1 zone raised, 2-4 zones come in different patients. After liposuction and glandular stripping were performed in different zones, postoperative follow-up was conducted one week, one month, three months, six months, and 12 months after the operation. The dynamic observation was made of the change process of chest shape shaping during the follow-up, whether there were postoperative complications, poor local shape, or bad regional shape. Evaluation results of patient satisfaction 12 months after surgery: among the 687 patients, there were 634 patients with 10 points of satisfaction, and 53 patients with 8-9 points, including 48 patients of zone 0 and zone 1, three patients of zone 3, and 2 patients of zone 4.Conclusions:The structural chest zones of gynecomastia provides plastic surgeons and male patients with simple, intuitive, and highly recognized preoperative evaluation, which can provide appropriate, simplified, and accurate guidance for the selection of surgical methods.
6.A study on the suitability of HD-V2 film in ultra-high dose-rate electron beam dosimetry
Ronghu MAO ; Leijie MA ; Hongchang LEI ; Peng CHEN ; Bing LI ; Hui LUO ; Han LIU ; Xiuyan CHENG ; Wei GUO ; Hong GE
Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 2023;32(4):333-338
Objective:To evaluate the usability of Gafchromic HD-V2 film for dose dosimetry in the ultra-high dose-rate (UD) electron beam from a modified medical linac, and to investigate the response between the energy and dose-rate dependence to the film.Methods:The HD-V2 film was utilized to measure the average dose-rate of the UD electron beam. The measured result was compared with those by advanced Markus chamber and alanine pellets. And characteristics of the UD electron beam were also measured by HD-V2 film. Energy dependence of HD-V2 film at three beam energies (6 MV X-ray, 9 MeV and 16 MeV electron beam) was investigated by obtaining and comparing the calibration curves based on the clinical linear accelerator in the dose range of 10-300 Gy. The dose-rate dependence of HD-V2 film was also studied by varying the dose rate among 0.03 Gy/s, 0.06 Gy/s and 0.1 Gy/s, and range of 100-200 Gy/s.Results:The measured average maximum dose-rate of 9 MeV UD electron beam at source skin distance (SSD) 100 cm was approximately 121 Gy/s using HD-V2 film, consistent with the results by advanced Markus chamber and alanine pellets. The measured percentage depth dose (PDD) curve parameters of the UD electron beam were similar to the conventional 9 MeV beam. The off-axis dose distribution of the UD electron beam showed the highest central axis, and the dose was gradually decreased with the increase of off-axis distance. The energy dependence of HD-V2 film had no dependency of 6 MV and 9, 16 MeV while measuring the dose in the range from 20 to 300 Gy. The HD-V2 film had no significant dose-rate dependency at the dose rate of 0.03 Gy/s, 0.06 Gy/s and 0.1 Gy/s for the clinical linear accelerator. Likewise, there was also no dose-rate dependence in the range 100-200 Gy/s in the modified machine.Conclusion:HD-V2 film is suitable for measuring ultra-high dose rate electron beam, independent of energy and dose rate.
7.Phantom study based on MRI cine sequences: analysis of the accuracy of tumor motion range accuracy
Bing LI ; Yuan WANG ; Ronghu MAO ; Dong LIU ; Wenzheng SUN ; Xiangyue LIU ; Nan MENG ; Wei GUO ; Shuangliang CAO ; Xipan LI ; Chen CHENG ; Hui WU ; Hongyan TAO ; Dingjie LI ; Zhaoyang LOU ; Hongchang LEI ; Lingguang MENG ; Hong GE
Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 2024;33(12):1144-1151
Objective:To investigate the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cine sequences in determining the range of tumor motion in radiotherapy, providing a basis for the precise delineation of the target volume in motion for radiation therapy.Methods:A modified chest motion phantom was placed in a MRI scanner, and a water-filled sphere was used to simulate a tumor. True fast imaging with steady precession (TrueFISP) MRI cine sequences from Siemens were used to capture the two-dimensional motion images of the simulated tumor. The phantom experiments were divided into three modes: head-foot motion mode, rotation motion mode, and actual respiratory waveform mode. In the head-foot motion mode, respiratory motion period (3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 s), amplitude (5, 10 and 15 mm), and respiratory waveform of the simulated tumor (sin and cos4) were set, resulting in a total of 36 motion combinations. In the rotation motion mode, a cos4 waveform was used for respiration, with respiratory periods of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 s, head-foot motion set amplitudes of 5, 10 and 15 mm, and anterior-posterior (AP) and left-right (LR) motion set amplitudes in three combinations ([2.5, 2.5] mm, [2.5, 5.0] mm, [5.0, 5.0] mm), resulting in a total of 54 motion combinations. In the actual respiratory waveform mode, respiratory waveforms of 5 randomly selected patients from Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University were obtained. Under each motion combination, TrueFISP cine images (30 frames, with an acquisition time of 11 s per frame) were obtained. The code was used to automatically identify the two-dimensional coordinates of the center of the simulated tumor in each image, and sin and cos4 functions were separately employed to fit the tumor position in the motion direction, thereby obtaining the fitted motion period and amplitude. The difference between the maximum and minimum values of the tumor's center coordinates in the head-to-foot direction is taken as the range of movement, referred to as the calculated amplitude. For the actual respiratory waveform, the distance between the measured maximum and minimum positions is used to calculate the amplitude.Results:In the head-foot motion mode, the fitted amplitudes of both sin and cos4 waveforms deviated from the set amplitudes by 0-0.51 mm, with relative deviations of 0%-4.2%. The deviation range between the calculated amplitudes and the set amplitudes of the two waveforms were 0.08-0.94 mm, with relative deviations of 1.1%-6.3%. In the rotation motion mode, the fitted amplitudes deviated from the set amplitudes by 0-0.61 mm, with relative deviations of 0%-6.2%. And the deviation range between the calculated amplitudes and the set amplitudes were 0.16-0.94 mm, with relative deviations of 0%-6.3%. In the actual respiratory waveform motion mode, the deviation range between the calculated amplitudes and the set amplitudes were 0.10-0.48 mm, with relative deviations of 2.2%-8.6%.Conclusion:TrueFISP cine sequences show minimal deviations in determining the range of tumor head-foot motion and effectively captures the tumor's movement state, thereby providing important support for the precise definition of the tumor movement target area during radiotherapy .