Publications by authors named "D Franck"
The end of childhood and adolescence are two critical periods. Patients' immaturity in making decisions can lead to irreversible health consequences. The use of social media exposing children to a wide variety of content may result in dangerous behavior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe European intercomparison of in-vivo monitoring laboratories: the EIVIC-2020 project.
Radiat Environ Biophys
March 2024
The EIVIC project was launched in 2020, and the main goal was the organisation of a European intercomparison of in-vivo monitoring laboratories dealing with direct measurements of gamma-emitting radionuclides incorporated into the body of exposed workers. This project was organised jointly by members of EURADOS Working Group 7 on internal dosimetry (WG7), the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS, Germany) and the Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (IRSN, France). The objective was to assess the implementation of individual-monitoring requirements in EU Member States on the basis of in-vivo measurements and to gain insight into the performance of in-vivo measurements using whole-body counters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Neonatal limb compartment syndrome (NLCS) is a rare and potentially limb-threatening condition defined as an increased pressure within a confined limb compartment. Clinicians may fail to distinguish NLCS from other mimicking conditions. Misdiagnosis is possible due to a low index of suspicion for this condition, which may delay appropriate and urgent treatment.
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- - Patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) exhibit increased facial movements and muscle tone during sleep compared to those with Parkinson's disease and healthy controls, suggesting a phenomenon called sleep state dissociation.
- - A study analyzed facial muscle activity in 62 individuals (11 with MSA, 38 with Parkinson's, and 13 controls) using video-polysomnography, identifying specific facial movements like frowning and smiling, with "strained face" being notably prominent in MSA patients.
- - The findings indicate that MSA is associated with significant alterations in sleep muscle activity, potentially serving as a key indicator of the condition and its severity, especially during Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep.
Background: The progression of targeted radionuclide therapy requires the development of dosimetry software accounting for patient-specific biokinetics. New functionalities were thus developed in the OEDIPE software, to deal with multiple 3D images or multiple planar images and a SPECT image.
Materiel & Method: Methods were implemented to recover patient biokinetics in volumes of interest.