Publications by authors named "N C Hurst"

Introduction: There is a high unmet need for safe and effective non-opioid medicines to treat moderate to severe pain without risk of addiction. Voltage-gated sodium channel 1.8 (Na1.

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Background And Objectives: Standard treatment of patients with stage II/III esophageal or gastroesophageal junction (E/GEJ) cancer involves neoadjuvant chemoradiation (nCRT), resection, and immunotherapy. Our trial evaluated the addition of perioperative avelumab to standard treatments.

Methods: Patients with resectable E/GEJ cancers received avelumab with nCRT and adjuvant avelumab after resection.

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  • The study focuses on improving MR-guided Radiation Therapy (MRgRT) by developing a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) to create high-fidelity synthetic CT (synCT) from low-field MRI images in brain glioma patients.
  • The methodology involved training the cGAN model using simulated MR-CT image pairs, with rigorous evaluation metrics (MAE, PSNR, SSIM) to assess synCT quality and its dosimetric performance against real CT images.
  • Results highlighted that the cGAN produced high-quality synCTs, showing strong agreement in dose delivery with minimal differences compared to real CT, although some challenges arose from post-surgical changes; validation on a separate MR-linac confirmed
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Current-carrying, toroidal laboratory plasmas typically cannot be sustained with an electron density above the empirical Greenwald limit. Presented here are tokamak experiments in the Madison Symmetric Torus with a density up to an unprecedented level about 10 times this limit. This is thought to be made possible in part by a thick, stabilizing, conductive wall, and a high-voltage, feedback-controlled power supply driving the plasma current.

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This paper presents the development of an all-in-one probe to simultaneously measure all components of the generalized Ohm's law in reversed-field pinch plasmas and tokamaks. The polyhedral configuration of the Mach probe is achieved through the specific arrangement, angle, and depth of the collimator channel apertures drilled into the surface of a hollow boron nitride cylinder encasing it. This probe includes a central Mach probe to assess the ion velocity field in three dimensions.

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