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Oncologist
October 2024
Yale University School of Medicine and Cancer Center, Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT 06516, United States.
The genome of a cell is continuously battered by a plethora of exogenous and endogenous processes that can lead to damaged DNA. Repair mechanisms correct this damage most of the time, but failure to do so leaves mutations. Mutations do not occur in random manner, but rather typically follow a more or less specific pattern due to known or imputed mutational processes.
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July 2024
Unit of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
Background: Diffusing alpha-emitters radiation therapy ("Alpha-DaRT") is a new method for treating solid tumors with alpha particles, relying on the release of the short-lived alpha-emitting daughter atoms of radium-224 from interstitial sources inserted into the tumor. Alpha-DaRT tumor dosimetry is governed by the spread of radium's progeny around the source, as described by an approximate framework called the "diffusion-leakage model". The most important model parameters are the diffusion lengths of radon-220 and lead-212, and their estimation is therefore essential for treatment planning.
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March 2024
Department of Radiation Oncology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Background: Prostate brachytherapy (BT) techniques have evolved over the past century. This paper aimed to preserve our collective memory of history and the early development of its technique. We searched articles in PubMed and Google Scholar using keywords referring to authors, dates, and BT technical details, including different radioactive sources and country-specific publications.
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November 2023
In ultrasound (US)-guided interventions, accurately tracking and visualizing needles during in-plane insertions are significant challenges due to strong directional specular reflections. These reflections violate the geometrical delay and apodization estimations in the conventional delay and sum beamforming (DASB) degrading the visualization of needles. This study proposes a novel reflection tuned apodization (RTA) to address this issue and facilitate needle enhancement through DASB.
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August 2022
Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland.
Recent developments in nanoprinting using focused electron beams have created a need to develop analysis methods for the products of electron-induced fragmentation of different metalorganic compounds. The original approach used here is termed focused-electron-beam-induced mass spectrometry (FEBiMS). FEBiMS enables the investigation of the fragmentation of electron-sensitive materials during irradiation within the typical primary electron beam energy range of a scanning electron microscope (0.
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