Diagnosing bacterial infections in an accurate and timely manner is critical for administering appropriate drugs and ensuring quality care. Typically, healthcare providers use a dipstick method for bacterial infection diagnosis which is simple and inexpensive, but also very inaccurate. Optical microscopy offers an alternative for identifying bacterial...

The quality of IMPT treatment plans may be drastically diminished by uncertainties such as proton range and patient setup errors. If these uncertainties are not figured into treatment planning, the dose distribution that the patient receives may not be the same as the planned dose distribution. New treatment plans, which include optimized software/programming,...