Publications associées à PET-based prognostic survival model after radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

New insights into rodent brain microstructure and metabolism in hepatic encephalopathy

Type C hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a severe neuropsychiatric complication of chronic liver disease, for which the prognosis is poor in the absence of liver transplantation. Cirrhosis in type C HE leads to a toxic accumulation of ammonia in the blood, wh ...

EPFL2023

Integrated electronics for time-of-flight positron emission tomography photodetectors

Andrada Alexandra Muntean

Positron emission tomography is a nuclear imaging technique well known for its use in oncology for cancer diagnosis and staging. A PET scanner is a complex machine which comprises photodetectors placed in a ring configuration that detect gamma photons gen ...

EPFL2023

Investigating the effect of inflammation on the progression of B-cell lymphoma dissemination in the sentinel lymph node

Daniel Molina Romero

Lymphomas are a group of heterogeneous blood cancers that arise from lymphocytes. The two primary clinical classifications of lymphomas are Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL), and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). In particular, B-cell lymphoma refers to the malignancies ...

EPFL2023

Plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: a field-test in a memory clinic

Aurélien Lathuilière

Background The key Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers are traditionally measured with techniques/exams that are either expensive (amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET) and tau-PET), invasive (cerebrospinal fluid A beta 42 and p-tau 181), or poorly sp ...

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP2023

Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy to control malignant pleural mesothelioma

Yameng Hao

OBJECTIVE: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare disease that has a poor response to conventional therapy. Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITOC), a treatment combining fever-range hyperthermia with intrapleural cisplatin chemotherapy, ha ...

EPFL2023

FOXC2 controls adult lymphatic endothelial specialization, function, and gut lymphatic barrier preventing multiorgan failure

Mauro Delorenzi, Alexis Rapin, Dominique Velin, Esther Bovay, François Renevey

The mechanisms maintaining adult lymphatic vascular specialization throughout life and their role in coordinating inter-organ communication to sustain homeostasis remain elusive. We report that inactivation of the mechanosensitive transcription factor Foxc ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

Combined deletion of Glut1 and Glut3 impairs lung adenocarcinoma growth

Bernard Lanz, Graham Knott, Rolf Gruetter, Nadine Fournier, Caroline Anne-Lyse Contat, Mario Gaetano Lepore, Etienne Meylan, Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Justine Pascual, Louise Helene Soegaard Jensen, Anouk Rossier, Pierre-Benoit Bernard Ancey, Silvia Sabatino, Inti Zlobec

Glucose utilization increases in tumors, a metabolic process that is observed clinically by F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (F-18-FDG-PET). However, is increased glucose uptake important for tumor cells, and which transporters are impl ...

2020

Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge

Mathieu Benoit, Edoardo Charbon, Christian Morel, Joao Varela

Since the seventies, positron emission tomography (PET) has become an invaluable medical molecular imaging modality with an unprecedented sensitivity at the picomolar level, especially for cancer diagnosis and the monitoring of its response to therapy. Mor ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

A Review: Electrochemical Biosensors for Oral Cancer

Hubert Girault, Tzu-En Lin, Ligang Wang, Sorour Darvishi

Oral cancer poses a serious threat worldwide owing to its soaring case-fatality rate and its metastatic characteristics of spreading to the other parts of the body. Despite the recent breakthroughs in biomedical sciences, the detection of oral cancer at an ...

2020

Myeloid Cells Orchestrate Systemic Immunosuppression, Impairing the Efficacy of Immunotherapy against HPV+ Cancers

Melody Swartz, Nadine Fournier, Douglas Hanahan, Stephan Wullschleger, Gabriele Galliverti, Mélanie Louise Tichet

Cancers induced by human papillomaviruses (HPV) should be responsive to immunotherapy by virtue of expressing the immunogenic oncoproteins E6/E7. However, advanced forms of cervical cancer, driven by HPV, are poorly responsive to immune response-enhancing ...

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2020

Challenges for biophysical modeling of microstructure

Ileana Ozana Jelescu

The biophysical modeling efforts in diffusion MRI have grown considerably over the past 25 years. In this review, we dwell on the various challenges along the journey of bringing a biophysical model from initial design to clinical implementation, identifyi ...

2020

Model-informed machine learning for multi-component T2 relaxometry

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Tobias Kober, Elda Fischi Gomez, Cristina Granziera, Tom Hilbert, Muhamed Barakovic, Gian Franco Piredda, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato, Thomas Yu

Recovering the distribution from multi-echo magnetic resonance (MR) signals is challenging but has high potential as it provides biomarkers characterizing the tissue micro-structure, such as the myelin water fraction (MWF). In this work, we propose to comb ...

2020

The use of texture-based radiomics CT analysis to predict outcomes in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer treated with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy

Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge, Pierre Starkov

Objective: Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is being increasingly used as a non-invasive treatment for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A non-invasive method to estimate treatment outcomes in these patients would be valuable, especi ...

BRITISH INST RADIOLOGY2019

Bioluminescent-based imaging and quantification of glucose uptake in vivo

Elena Goun, Arkadiy Bazhin, Riccardo Sinisi, Pavlo Khodakivskyi, Georgy Mikhaylov, Aleksey Yevtodiyenko, Tamara Maric

Glucose is a major source of energy for most living organisms, and its aberrant uptake is linked to many pathological conditions. However, our understanding of disease-associated glucose flux is limited owing to the lack of robust tools. To date, positron- ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Revealing Tumor Habitats from Texture Heterogeneity Analysis for Classification of Lung Cancer Malignancy and Aggressiveness

Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge

We propose an approach for characterizing structural heterogeneity of lung cancer nodules using Computed Tomography Texture Analysis (CTTA). Measures of heterogeneity were used to test the hypothesis that heterogeneity can be used as predictor of nodule ma ...

Nature Research2019

Prediction of Occult Lymph Node Metastasis in Head and Neck Cancer with CD31 Vessel Quantification

Elena Goun

Objective The management of occult lymph node metastasis (LNM) in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma has been a matter of controversy for decades. The vascular density within the tumor microenvironment, as an indicator of ongoing angiogenesis, could con ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

Bioethanol production from palm wood using Trichoderma reesei and Kluveromyces marxianus

Edgard Gnansounou

In the present work, palm wood was pretreated using hydrothermal technique in conjunction with chemical method for removal of lignin. Pretreated palm wood was subjected to hydrolysis using Trichoderma reesei MTCC 4876. Subsequently bioethanol was produced ...

Elsevier2019

In vivo (13)C MRS in the mouse brain at 14.1 Tesla and metabolic flux quantification under infusion of [1,6-(13)C2]glucose

Bernard Lanz, Rolf Gruetter, Carole Poitry-Yamate, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu, Marta Lai, Corina Mihaela Berset

In vivo (13)C magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) enables the investigation of cerebral metabolic compartmentation while, e.g. infusing (13)C-labeled glucose. Metabolic flux analysis of (13)C turnover previously yielded quantitative information of glutam ...

2018

In vivo characterization of brain metabolism by 1 H MRS, 13 C MRS and 18 FDG PET reveals significant glucose oxidation of invasively growing glioma cells

Bernard Lanz, Rolf Gruetter, Carole Poitry-Yamate, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu, Marta Lai

Glioblastoma are notorious for their highly invasive growth, diffusely infiltrating adjacent brain structures that precludes complete resection, and is a major obstacle for cure. To characterize this "invisible" tumor part, we designed a high resolution mu ...

2018

Development of a nano-adjuvant cancer vaccine and its evaluation for melanoma in combination with radiotherapy

Sylvie Hauert

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world and melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer. Although surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are still standard treatments, the discovery of the role played by the immune system in cancer has a ...

EPFL2018