Publications by authors named "F Villegas"

Salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS), caused by , has been the most severe health concern for the Chilean salmon industry. The efforts to control infections have focused on using antibiotics and vaccines. However, infected salmonids exhibit limited responses to the treatments.

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  • The study addresses the advancement of synthetic CT (sCT) in MR-guided radiotherapy and aims to define current practices through a survey distributed among ESTRO members in 2023.
  • Results showed that sCT is primarily used for pelvic treatments and conventional fractionation, with varying application across different areas and limited engagement in proton therapy.
  • A strong consensus emerged for the need for standardized, vendor-neutral guidelines to improve the development and use of sCT in clinical settings, as many centers lack dedicated quality assurance programs.
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Synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a substitute for planning CT in radiation therapy (RT), thereby removing registration uncertainties associated with multi-modality imaging pairing, reducing costs and patient radiation exposure. CE/FDA-approved sCT solutions are nowadays available for pelvis, brain, and head and neck, while more complex deep learning (DL) algorithms are under investigation for other anatomic sites. The main challenge in achieving a widespread clinical implementation of sCT lies in the absence of consensus on sCT commissioning and quality assurance (QA), resulting in variation of sCT approaches across different hospitals.

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Background And Purpose: Magnetic resonance (MR)-only radiotherapy (RT) workflow eliminates uncertainties due to computed tomography (CT)-MR image registration, by using synthetic CT (sCT) images generated from MR. This study describes the clinical implementation process, from retrospective commissioning to prospective validation stage of a commercial artificial intelligence (AI)-based sCT product. Evaluation of the dosimetric performance of the sCT is presented, with emphasis on the impact of voxel size differences between image modalities.

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Pubertal delay can be due to hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH), which may occur in association with anosmia or hyposmia and is known as Kallmann syndrome (OMIM #308700). Recently, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism has been suggested to overlap with Witteveen-Kolk syndrome (WITKOS, OMIM #613406) associated with 15q24 microdeletions encompassing . Whether hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is due to haploinsufficiency of or any of the other eight genes present in 15q24 is not known.

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