Publications by authors named "James L Thompson"
Purpose: Scientific Committee 6-9 was established by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), charged to provide guidance in the derivation of organ doses and their uncertainty, and produced a report, NCRP Report No. 178, Deriving Organ Doses and their Uncertainty for Epidemiologic Studies with a focus on the Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects (MPS). This review summarizes the conclusions and recommendations of NCRP Report No.
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- The Million Worker Study (MWS) investigates the cancer risk associated with long-term radiation exposure among one million U.S. radiation workers and veterans, differing from studies on atomic bomb survivors who experienced immediate exposure.
- The study aims to evaluate not only cancer mortality but also other health outcomes like cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, highlighting the importance of accurately estimating radiation doses absorbed by specific organs over a 70-year span.
- A scientific committee is working on a comprehensive report on organ dose assessment, focusing on uncertainty analysis and applying guidelines to improve the accuracy of the study's dosimetry methods.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the efficacy of levetiracetam as adjunctive therapy in patients with localization-related epilepsy, and specifically in the subset of patients for whom epilepsy surgery failed.
Methods: Eighty-two patients with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures treated with levetiracetam were identified; epilepsy surgery had failed for 21 (25.6%; group I), and 61 (74.
Purpose: To review the clinical, neurophysiologic features and surgical outcomes in patients with frontal lobe tumors and chronic intractable seizures.
Methods: Medical records of patients with intractable epilepsy who underwent resection or stereotactic biopsy of frontal lobe tumor (confirmed by surgical pathology) seen between 1985 and 1999 at Yale University School of Medicine Epilepsy Center were reviewed for age at diagnosis, age at onset of seizures, delay between seizure onset and tumor diagnosis, types and frequencies of seizures, EEG results, use of anticonvulsants, extent of surgery, pathological diagnosis, and tumor recurrence.
Results: Thirty-seven patients were included.