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Oxygen-enhanced MRI assessment of tumour hypoxia in head and neck cancer is feasible and well tolerated in the clinical setting (2024)
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Background: Tumour hypoxia is a recognised cause of radiotherapy treatment resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Current positron emission tomography-based hypoxia imaging techniques are not routinely available in many centres.... Read More about Oxygen-enhanced MRI assessment of tumour hypoxia in head and neck cancer is feasible and well tolerated in the clinical setting.

MRI and Molecular Characterization of Pediatric High-Grade Midline Thalamic Gliomas: The HERBY Phase II Trial (2022)
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Background Diffuse midline gliomas (DMG) are characterized by a high incidence of H3 K27 mutations and poorer outcome. The HERBY trial has provided one of the largest cohorts of pediatric DMGs with available radiologic, histologic-genotypic, and surv... Read More about MRI and Molecular Characterization of Pediatric High-Grade Midline Thalamic Gliomas: The HERBY Phase II Trial.

Effect of Tranexamic Acid Administration on Remote Cerebral Ischemic Lesions in Acute Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Substudy of a Randomized Clinical Trial (2022)
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Importance: Hyperintense foci on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) that are spatially remote from the acute hematoma occur in 20% of people with acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Tranexamic acid, a hemostatic agent that is under invest... Read More about Effect of Tranexamic Acid Administration on Remote Cerebral Ischemic Lesions in Acute Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Substudy of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Dynamic susceptibility-contrast magnetic resonance imaging with contrast agent leakage correction aids in predicting grade in pediatric brain tumours: a multicenter study (2022)
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Background Relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) measured using dynamic susceptibility-contrast MRI can differentiate between low- and high-grade pediatric brain tumors. Multicenter studies are required for translation into clinical practice. Obj... Read More about Dynamic susceptibility-contrast magnetic resonance imaging with contrast agent leakage correction aids in predicting grade in pediatric brain tumours: a multicenter study.

European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) MRI guidelines for imaging patients with central nervous system tumours (2021)
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INTRODUCTION: Standardisation of imaging acquisition is essential in facilitating multicentre studies related to childhood CNS tumours. It is important to ensure that theimaging protocol can be adopted by centres with varying imaging capabilities wit... Read More about European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) MRI guidelines for imaging patients with central nervous system tumours.

Analysis of insulin glulisine at the molecular level by X-ray crystallography and biophysical techniques (2021)
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© 2021, The Author(s). This study concerns glulisine, a rapid-acting insulin analogue that plays a fundamental role in diabetes management. We have applied a combination of methods namely X-ray crystallography, and biophysical characterisation to pro... Read More about Analysis of insulin glulisine at the molecular level by X-ray crystallography and biophysical techniques.

Droplet digital PCR-based detection of circulating tumor DNA from pediatric high grade and diffuse midline glioma patients (2021)
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Background The use of liquid biopsy is of potential high importance for children with high grade (HGG) and diffuse midline gliomas (DMG), particularly where surgical procedures are limited, and invasive biopsy sampling not without risk. To date, how... Read More about Droplet digital PCR-based detection of circulating tumor DNA from pediatric high grade and diffuse midline glioma patients.

Dorsolateral prefrontal circuit effective connectivity mediates the relationship between white matter structure and PASAT‐3 performance in multiple sclerosis (2020)
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Three decades ago a series of parallel circuits were described involving the frontal cortex and deep grey matter structures, with putative roles in control of motor and oculomotor function, cognition, behaviour and emotion. The circuit comprising the... Read More about Dorsolateral prefrontal circuit effective connectivity mediates the relationship between white matter structure and PASAT‐3 performance in multiple sclerosis.

Radiological evaluation of newly diagnosed non-brainstem pediatric high-grade glioma in the HERBY phase II trial (2020)
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Purpose: The HERBY trial evaluated the benefit of the addition of the antiangiogenic agent Bevacizumab (BEV) to radiotherapy/temozolomide (RT/TMZ) in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed non-brainstem high-grade glioma (HGG). The work presented he... Read More about Radiological evaluation of newly diagnosed non-brainstem pediatric high-grade glioma in the HERBY phase II trial.

Evaluation of the implementation of the response assessment in neuro-oncology criteria in the HERBY trial of pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade gliomas (2019)
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© 2019 American Society of Neuroradiology. All rights reserved. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: HERBY was a Phase II multicenter trial setup to establish the efficacy and safety of adding bevacizumab to radiation therapy and temozolomide in pediatric patient... Read More about Evaluation of the implementation of the response assessment in neuro-oncology criteria in the HERBY trial of pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade gliomas.

The MRI central vein marker: differentiating PPMS from RRMS and ischaemic SVD (2018)
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Samaraweera, A. P., Falah, Y., Pitot, A., Dineen, R. A., Morgan, P. S., & Evangelou, N. (2018). The MRI central vein marker: differentiating PPMS from RRMS and ischaemic SVD. Neurology, Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation, 5(6), Article e496. https://doi.org/10.1212/NXI.0000000000000496

© 2018 The Author(s). Objective To determine whether the assessment of brain white matter lesion (WML) central veins differentiate patients with primary progressive MS (PPMS) from relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) and ischemic small vessel disease (SVD)... Read More about The MRI central vein marker: differentiating PPMS from RRMS and ischaemic SVD.

Molecular, Pathological, Radiological, and Immune Profiling of Non-brainstem Pediatric High-Grade Glioma from the HERBY Phase II Randomized Trial (2018)
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Varlet, P., Mackay, A., Burford, A., Molinari, V., Jones, D. T., Izquierdo, E., …Jones, C. (2018). Molecular, Pathological, Radiological, and Immune Profiling of Non-brainstem Pediatric High-Grade Glioma from the HERBY Phase II Randomized Trial. Cancer Cell, 33(5), 829-842.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2018.04.004

The HERBY trial was a phase II open-label, randomized, multicenter trial evaluating bevacizumab (BEV) in addition to temozolomide/radiotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed non-brainstem high-grade glioma (HGG) between the ages of 3 and 18 years.... Read More about Molecular, Pathological, Radiological, and Immune Profiling of Non-brainstem Pediatric High-Grade Glioma from the HERBY Phase II Randomized Trial.

Characterisation of insulin analogues therapeutically available to patients (2018)
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Adams, G. G., Meal, A., Morgan, P. S., Alzahrani, Q. E., Zobel, H., Lithgo, R., …Chayen, N. (2018). Characterisation of insulin analogues therapeutically available to patients. PLoS ONE, 13(3), Article e0195010. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195010

The structure and function of clinical dosage insulin and its analogues were assessed. This included ‘native insulins’ (human recombinant, bovine, porcine), ‘fast-acting analogues’ (aspart, glulisine, lispro) and ‘slow-acting analogues’ (glargine, de... Read More about Characterisation of insulin analogues therapeutically available to patients.

Phase II, open-label, randomized, multicenter trial (HERBY) of Bevacizumab in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma (2018)
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Grill, J., Massimino, M., Bouffet, E., Azizi, A. A., McCowage, G., Cañete, A., …Giangaspero, F. (2018). Phase II, open-label, randomized, multicenter trial (HERBY) of Bevacizumab in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 36(10), https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2017.76.0611

Purpose Bevacizumab (BEV) is approved in more than 60 countries for use in adults with recurrent glioblastoma. We evaluated the addition of BEV to radiotherapy plus temozolomide (RT+TMZ) in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma (... Read More about Phase II, open-label, randomized, multicenter trial (HERBY) of Bevacizumab in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma.

Brain Activation in Response to Personalized Behavioral and Physiological Feedback From Self-Monitoring Technology: Pilot Study (2017)
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Whelan, M. E., Morgan, P. S., Sherar, L. B., Kingsnorth, A. P., Magistro, D., & Esliger, D. W. (2017). Brain Activation in Response to Personalized Behavioral and Physiological Feedback From Self-Monitoring Technology: Pilot Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(11), Article e384. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.8890

Background: The recent surge in commercially available wearable technology has allowed real-time self-monitoring of behavior (eg, physical activity) and physiology (eg, glucose levels). However, there is limited neuroimaging work (ie, functional mag... Read More about Brain Activation in Response to Personalized Behavioral and Physiological Feedback From Self-Monitoring Technology: Pilot Study.

The ‘Swallow Tail’ Appearance of the Healthy Nigrosome – A New Accurate Test of Parkinson's Disease: A Case-Control and Retrospective Cross-Sectional MRI Study at 3T (2014)
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Schwarz, S., Afzal, M., Morgan, P., Auer, D., Bajaj, N., & Gowland, P. A. (2014). The ‘Swallow Tail’ Appearance of the Healthy Nigrosome – A New Accurate Test of Parkinson's Disease: A Case-Control and Retrospective Cross-Sectional MRI Study at 3T. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e93814. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093814

There is no well-established in vivo marker of nigral degeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD). An ideal imaging marker would directly mirror the loss of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurones, which is most prominent in sub-regions called nigrosomes... Read More about The ‘Swallow Tail’ Appearance of the Healthy Nigrosome – A New Accurate Test of Parkinson's Disease: A Case-Control and Retrospective Cross-Sectional MRI Study at 3T.

Adjuvant chemotherapy for brain tumors delivered via a novel intra-cavity moldable polymer matrix (2013)
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Rahman, C. V., Smith, S. J., Morgan, P. S., Langmack, K. A., Clarke, P. A., Ritchie, A. A., …Rahman, R. (2013). Adjuvant chemotherapy for brain tumors delivered via a novel intra-cavity moldable polymer matrix. PLoS ONE, 8(10), Article e77435. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077435

INTRODUCTION Polymer-based delivery systems offer innovative intra-cavity administration of drugs, with the potential to better target micro-deposits of cancer cells in brain parenchyma beyond the resected cavity. Here we evaluate clinical utility... Read More about Adjuvant chemotherapy for brain tumors delivered via a novel intra-cavity moldable polymer matrix.