BACKGROUND This is the first known study examining renal function following stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for pancreatic head adenocarcinoma. METHODS Thirty-eight borderline-resectable/unresectable patients, part of an ongoing prospective trial, underwent 3 cycles of gemcitabine/5-fluorouracil followed by SBRT (5 daily fractions of 5/6/7/8 Gy) and concurrent nelfinavir. Thereafter, in...

2 Gap and Reactivity of Cupric Oxide Nanosheets 3 Zachary S. Fishman,† Benjamin Rudshteyn,‡ Yulian He, Bolun Liu, Subhajyoti Chaudhuri,‡ 4 Mikhail Askerka,‡ Gary L. Haller,†,‡ Victor S. Batista,*,‡ and Lisa D. Pfefferle*,† 5 †Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8286, United States 6 ‡Department of Chemistry and Energy Sciences Inst...

Christian F. A. Negre, ∗ Heidi Hendrickson, Rhitankar Pal, Ivan Rivalta, † Junming Ho, and Victor S. Batista ‡ Theoretical Divission, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, and Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University, P.O. Box 27394, West Haven, CT 06516-7394 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, C...

2 Anchored on Glassy Carbon Electrodes 3 Roc Matheu,† Laia Francas̀,† Petko Chernev,‡ Mehmed Z. Ertem, Victor Batista,* Michael Haumann,‡ 4 Xavier Sala,* and Antoni Llobet*,†,⊥ 5 †Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Avinguda Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain 6 ‡Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Freie Universitat Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany 7 Chemistry D...

BACKGROUND To investigate the utilization of PET-CT in target volume delineation for three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and atelectasis. METHODS Thirty NSCLC patients who underwent radical radiotherapy from August 2010 to March 2012 were included in this study. All patients were pathologically confirmed to have atelectasis by imaging e...

PURPOSE We aimed to validate actually achieved macroscopic ablation volumes in relation to calculated target volumes using four different radiofrequency ablation (RFA) systems operated with default settings and protocols for 3 cm and 5 cm target volumes in ex vivo bovine liver. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-four cuboid liver specimens were ablated with four commercially available RFA systems (R...

This study was designed to determine the maximum-size subcutaneous telemeter that would enable long-term and multichannel data collection in a 170-g rat for 90 days. In phase 1, rats with implants weighing 5 (2.5 cm3), 15 (7.5 cm3), 25 (12.5 cm3), 35 (17.5 cm3), or 45 (22.5 cm3) g were compared with sham-operated (SOC) and nonoperated (NOC) control animals. Severe skin lesions, seromas, and low...

Structural changes in the rat placenta during the last third of gestation were for the first time assessed by stereology. Fischer female rats were euthanized on the day 16 or day 19 of gestation, and 35 placentas were collected. Three randomly selected placentas from each group were stereologically analyzed for the absolute volume. The proportion of the glycogenic cells and the trophoblast gian...

OBJECTIVE We retrospectively analyzed our experience with time-staged gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GKS) in treating large arteriovenous malformation(AVM)s;≥ 10 cm3). METHODS Forty-five patients who underwent time-staged GKS (2-stage, n = 37;3-stage,n = 8) between March 1998 and December 2011 were included. The mean volume treated was 20.42±6.29 cm3 (range, 10.20-38.50 cm3). Oblitera...