Ten dogs were divided into 2 groups and absolute ethanol was injected into the renal artery and its branches respectively. The kidneys injected were resected by stages and examined pathologically. The results showed that coagulative necrosis developed in the renal artery and kidney itself. In the group whose branches of the renal artery were injected there was a clear demarcation line between the necro-tic and the normal areas. The thrombus formed secondary to necrosis might worsen the blockage of the renal artery. The clinical observations on the renal artery injected with absolute ethanol in 15 cases showed that the method of absolute ethanol injection was better than any other methods or drugs for the renal artery. The injection was safe, convenient and more favourable to the prevention of the spread of cancer cells.

OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for the medication safety in elderly patients with chronic diseases. METHODS:Elderly inpatients with chronic diseases and nursing staff in affiliated hospital of shaoyang medical college,from Mar. 2014 to May 2015 were randomly selected for a questionnaire survey to analyze the influential factors of drug safety and health education de-mand,and the difficulty sources of nursing staff in developing health education was explored. RESULTS:Totally 500 questionnaire was sent out to elderly patients with chronic diseases,500 were effectively received with effective recovery of 100%;and totally 200 were sent out to nursing staff,200 were effectively received with effective recovery of 100%. In the 500 surveyed patients, 193 had ADR,which was affected by age,educational background,monthly income,disease course,whether received health edu-cation,etc.(P<0.05),patients with older age,lower educational background and monthly income,longer disease course and no receiving health education showed higher incidence of ADR;the influential factors for health education demands included education-al background,occupational status,disease course,quality evaluation of nursing staff,etc.(P<0.05),patients with higher educa-tional background,lower disease course,higher occupational status and quality evaluation of nursing staff showed stronger health education demands. The difficulty sources of surveyed nursing staff in developing health education were busy work,being afraid of misunderstanding,embarrassing,cognitive and skill deficits. CONCLUSIONS:The drug safety of elderly patients with chronic dis-eases is related to many influential factors,as well as the health education demands. Nursing staff should continuously improve their ability and quality,combined with the above influential factors,carry out health education with physicians and pharmacists to ensure the medication safety.

Objective To explore the diagnostic value of axial diffusion tensor imaging(DTI) for gliomas grading at 3 .0T MRI , analyze the characteristics of different grades gliomas of axial DTI in order to improve diagnostic accuracy .Methods A retrospec‐tive analysis was performed involving a group of 37 cases of high grade glioma and 26 cases of low grade glioma confirmed by the pathological results in affiliated hospital of Luzhou medical college ,observation analysis was obtained in axial DTI ,peritumoral neu‐rofibrillary was divided into three types :displacement ,interruption and neurofibrillary tangles(NFT) .Results among the 26 cases of low grade glioma ,there were 18 cases of displacement ;8 cases of interruption ,no NFT ;among the 37 cases of high grade glio‐mas ,there were 9 cases of displacement ,21 cases of interruption ,and 7 cases of NFT (1 case of frontal lobe ,6 cases of temporal lobe);ordinal variables rank sum test in two independent samples between high grade glioma group and low grade glioma showed significant differences(Z= -3 .756 ,P<0 .05);χ2 test showed no significant difference(P>0 .05) ,frontal lobe appeared NFT in 1 case ,accounting for 2 .7% (1/37) ,temporal lobe appeared NFT in 6 cases ,accounting for 16 .2% (6/37) .Conclusion Peritumoral neurofibrillary of the low grade gliomas more performed displacement ,the high grade gliomas show more interrupts and NFT at 3 .0T MRI ,NFT in high grade gliomas is often seen in the temporal and frontal lobe .

Objective To develop an accurate 2D dose reconstruction model using electronic portal imaging device (EPID).2D dosimetric verifications of volumetric intensity-modulated arc therapy (VIMAT)were done using the model.And the results were compared to other dosimeters.Methods The EPID-based dose reconstruction model was using convolve,deconvolve and correction function.The dose profiles which were obtained by the ion chamber were used to determine the model parameters.A total of 12 VIMAT plans for the treatment of anatomical sites of various complexities were chosen.The results obtained from EPID were compared to other dosimeters and treatment planning system (TPS).The ion chamber was used to measure the central point absolute doses.Other dosimeters were used to measure the plane dose distributions.All dosimeters measured the dose at 10 cm depth.The results were analyzed using γevaluation method.Results Regarding absolute central point doses,the ion chamber results were within 1.5％ of the EPID results.For the comparison to Seven29 and Matrixx,the average γ pass rates with 2％and 2 mm criteria were 98.9％ and 99.8％ respectively.For the dose distributions measured by EPID and calculated by TPS,the γ pass rates with 3％ and 3 mm criteria were 99.9％.Conclusions The presented results which were obtained from the comparison of measured and calculated doses show the reliability of our EPID-based dose reconstruction model.With the model,EPID can be a reliable and fast tool for IMRT plan dosimetric verification.The model expanded to the 3D dosimetric verification in the uniform phantom will be considered as the next work.

OBJECTIVETo study the correction of algorithm for Varian enhanced dynamic wedge(EDW) factors and compare the dose/monitor unit (MU) deviation measured at the central axis of EDW field with that obtained by manual calculation or using the treatment planning system.

METHODSEDW factors and dose were measured with Thimble ion chamber at 10 cm depth under the water for 6 MV and 10 MV photon on Varian linear accelerator. The corresponding calculations were done with the radiation treatment planning system. An analytic formula, namely the MU Fraction model, was used to calculate the EDW factor, which was corrected with a constant factor. The MU of conventional 2-D planning derived from manual calculating, treatment planning system, and actual measurements were compared.

RESULTSWith the measured results as the standard, the corrected manual calculation deviation of EDW factors was significantly reduced. For photon 6 MV, the maximum deviation reduced from 4.2% to 1.3% for 60° symmetry fields was, and from -4.7% to -1.8% for asymmetric fields. For photon 10 MV, the maximum deviation for all EDW fields was reduced from -3.0% to 1.1%. Comparison of the manual calculations with the measured results showed a MU deviation for symmetric fields within 2%, and more than 5% for some asymmetric fields. The deviation between the calculations of the treatment planning and the measured results was less than 1.5%.

CONCLUSIONConstant factor correction can effectively reduce the deviation of manual calculation. For MU calculation of EDW field in conventional 2-D dimensional treatment planning, the corrected results of symmetric fields meet clinical requirements. While the minimum distance between the field edge and the central axis was less than 4 cm in asymmetric fields, the corresponding special method, measurement or the treatment planning system should be used to calculate the dose/MU.

Objective:To evaluate the preliminary clinical efficacy and safety of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in combination with targeted therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).Methods:Clinical data of 58 patients with mRCC who were treated with SBRT in combination with targeted therapy in Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center from June 2013 to December 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. Among them, 79.3% patients were classified as intermediate or high risk according to International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium Criteria. The median biologically equivalent dose (BED) was 147 Gy (67 to 238 Gy).Results:Overall, 32, 13, 7, 5 and 1 patients received SBRT for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 metastatic sites (105 lesions) and 71.4% of them were bone lesions. Targeted therapy was continued during SBRT. With a median follow-up of 9.4 months (range 2.7 to 40.1 months), 18 patients died. The 1-year local control rate was 97.4%. The 1-year progression-free survival was 50.3%. The 1-and 2-year overall survival was 72% and 53%. Approximately 85% patients experienced pain relief after SBRT. Patients who achieved complete or partial response after SBRT obtained better overall survival than those with stable disease or disease progression (1-year overall survival: 83% vs. 48%, P=0.021). In the whole cohort, 6 cases developed Grade Ⅲ adverse events, 4 of which were Grade Ⅲ myelosuppression, 1 case of Grade Ⅲ neuropathy and 1 case of radiation-induced skin injury. Conclusion:Preliminary study reveals that combined use of targeted therapy and SBRT is an efficacious and safe treatment of advanced mRCC.