Publications associées à Varicocele percutaneous embolization outcomes in a pediatric group: 7-year retrospective study

Waterborne Virus Transport and Risk Assessment in Lake Geneva Under Climate Change

Climate changes influence lake hydrodynamics and radiation levels and thus may affect the fate and transport of waterborne pathogens in lakes. This study examines the impact of climate change on the fate, transport, and associated risks of four waterborne ...

2024

Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Image Sensors for Harsh Radiation Environments

Ming-Lo Wu

The space industry has experienced substantial growth in recent years, leading to rapid advancements in space exploration and space-based technologies. Consequently, the study of electronics and sensor performance in extreme environments has become crucial ...

EPFL2024

Performance evaluation of radon active sensors and passive dosimeters at low and high radon concentrations

Joan Rey, Dusan Licina

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that has the potential to accumulate in buildings and over time, causes lung cancer in humans. Present methods for radon measurements are disparate, which pose challenges to benchmark radon concentrations and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Benign termination of runaway electron beams on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Claudia Colandrea, Luke Simons, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

This paper discusses the development of a benign termination scenario for runaway electron (RE) beams on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV. A systematic study revealed that a low electron density (n e) companion plasma was required to achieve a large MHD instability, ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

New insight on the nature of cosmic reionizers from the CEERS survey

Michaela Hirschmann

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) began when galaxies grew in abundance and luminosity, so their escaping Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation started ionizing the surrounding neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Despite significant recent progress, the nature and ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

Radiation Patterns of RF Wireless Devices Implanted in Small Animals: Unexpected Deformations Due to Body Resonance

Anja Skrivervik, Stéphanie Lacour, James Daniel Rosenthal, Mingxiang Gao, Kangling Wu, Zvonimir Sipus, German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave

One challenge in designing RF wireless bioelectronic devices is the impact of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and host body tissues on far-field wireless performance. In this paper, we investigate a peculiar phenomenon of implantable RF wirel ...

2023

Vacancy segregation and intrinsic coordination defects at (111) twist grain boundaries in diamond

Christian Brandl, Carolina Baruffi

High radiation damage resistance has become increasingly important for applications of functional materials in harsh environments. The high radiation damage resistance diamond cubic carbon is a unique material which is considered for radiation environments ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Measuring the electron energy distribution in tokamak plasmas from polarized electron cyclotron radiation

Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole

In this doctoral thesis, a promising technique has been used for the measurement of non-thermal electrons in TCV. The technique employs a Vertical viewing ECE to more easily discriminate the radiation according to the energy of the electrons. Successful ...

EPFL2023

Method and setup for light detection and ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Lukashchuk

A method and a setup for light detection and ranging are disclosed. The setup is configured to carry out the following method: generating signal radiation (S) at multiple signal frequencies (fs) with an optical signal source (1), wherein the signal radiati ...

2023

Radiation-tolerant Multichannel Dew Point Temperature Monitoring System for High Energy Physics Applications

Amar Kapic

The next generation of high-energy physics (HEP) detectors will predominantly be silicon-based. As pixel sensor technology gains momentum and the number of channels surpasses one billion (for a volume of approximately 20 m3) to achieve the high resolution ...

EPFL2023

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon high flux x-ray detectors for synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Giulia Rossi, Matthew James Large

Objective. Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) is an alternative emerging radiotherapy treatment modality which has demonstrated effective radioresistant tumour control while sparing surrounding healthy tissue in preclinical trials. This apparent selectivity ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Modulation of the nanoscale motion rate of Candida albicans by X-rays

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba

IntroductionPatients undergoing cancer treatment by radiation therapy commonly develop Candida albicans infections (candidiasis). Such infections are generally treated by antifungals that unfortunately also induce numerous secondary effects in the patient. ...

Frontiers Media SA2023

The X-Point radiating regime at ASDEX Upgrade and TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Bernhard Sieglin

Future fusion reactors require a safe, steady-state divertor operation. With deep divertor detachment, which is typically induced by impurity seeding, the radiation concentrates in a small region at the X-point or on closed flux surfaces above the X-point. ...

Elsevier2023

Hints of the Photonic Nature of the Electromagnetic Fields in Classical Electrodynamics

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

Several recent publications show that the electromagnetic radiation generated by transmitting antennas satisfy the following universal conditions: The time domain radiation fields satisfy the condition A ≥ h/4π ⇒ q ≥ e where A is the action of the radiatio ...

2023

Clinical efficacy of ONC201 in H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas is driven by disruption of integrated metabolic and epigenetic pathways

Sebastian Martin Waszak, Li Jiang

H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma (DMG) patients have no proven effective therapies. ONC201 has recently demonstrated efficacy in these patients, but the mechanism behind this remains unknown. We assessed clinical outcomes, tumor sequencing, and tissue/ ...

2023

Hardware-Software co-design Methodologies for Edge AI Optimization

Flavio Ponzina

ML-based edge devices may face memory and computational errors that affect applications' reliability and performance. These errors can be the result of particular working conditions (e.g., radiation areas in physical experiments or avionics) or could be th ...

EPFL2023

Single-fraction radiosurgery outcomes for large vestibular schwannomas in the upfront or post-surgical setting: a systematic review and International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS) Practice Guidelines

Constantin Tuleasca

PurposeTo perform a systematic review of literature specific to single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for large vestibular schwannomas (VS), maximum diameter >= 2.5 cm and/or classified as Koos Grade IV, and to present consensus recommendations o ...

Springer2023

Modified pressure-cooker technique (PCT) using extra-soft Kaneka coils improves embolization of high-grade cerebral arteriovenous malformations: a technical note

Mahmut Yüksel

Endovascular embolization techniques are showing an extraordinary potential to treat patients suffering from complex neurovascular malformations. The embolization with liquid embolic agents via Onyx is a prominent approach to treat arteriovenous malformati ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

HighNESS conceptual design report: Volume II. The NNBAR experiment

Xiaoxue Han, Sheng Xu, Davide Campi, Mina Akhyani

A key aim of the HighNESS project for the European Spallation Source is to enable cutting-edge particle physics experiments. This volume presents a conceptual design report for the NNBAR experiment. NNBAR would exploit a new cold lower moderator to make th ...

Ios Press2023

Comparison of the ALPS and PHILOS plating systems in proximal humeral fracture fixation - a retrospective study

Alexandre Terrier, Antoine Dewarrat, Frédéric Vauclair

BackgroundOpen reduction and plate osteosynthesis are considered as a successful technique for the treatment of proximal humerus fracture (PHF) despite high complication rates. The objective of our study was to review the clinical outcome and complications ...

BMC2023