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Diseases of the respiratory system are leading global causes of chronic morbidity and mortality. While advanced medical imaging technologies of today deliver detailed diagnostic information, a low-dose, fast, and inexpensive option for early detection and/or follow-ups is still lacking.
Here, we report on the first human application of a novel modality, namely X-ray dark-field chest imaging,...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0931-3
The advent of Free Electron Lasers (FELs) opened up the way for an unprecedented, wide class of experiments exploiting the peculiar features of these radiation sources. Key elements of FEL beams are the high peak brilliance, the short pulse duration, which is of the order of tens of femtoseconds, and the high degree of coherence of the radiation.
EuPRAXIA is the first European project that...
In recent years, three different coronaviruses (MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2), posed a grave threat to the global public health, security and economy. All these RNA viruses present a similar surface structure characterized by Spike Glycoproteins (S) having a key role in viral pathogenesis. The S proteins protrude from the surface of mature virion (see Fig. 1), and are responsible for...
According to the latest US CDC declarations, Covid infection is largely transmitted by air and not -as previously supposed- by touching objects “polluted” by others. Thus, at least in public gatherings, we should focus more on cleaning the air surrounding participants rather than on disinfecting objects in contact with them. A low-cost method to accomplish it consists in beaming signals at...
Objectives: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious lung disease affecting more than 124 million individuals worldwide as of Mar 28, 2021, and still significantly impacts our daily life. In 2020, we presented an automatic lung analysis workflow to analyze lung function quantitatively at the lung lobe level [1]. To further support and contribute to COVID-19 analysis, we...
Purpose: The World Health Organization (WHO) fixed as the gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis the positive tested RT-PCR while the use of Computed Tomography (CT) images and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for this purpose is still under evaluation since differential diagnosis for other kinds of pneumonia is not reliable. However, AI and CT may be useful to follow up patients and to evaluate...
Prognostic methods to predict the evolution of the COVID-19 disease can be decisive to address the most suitable therapeutic approach. We propose an AI algorithm to make predictions of the patient respiratory condition and functional response, by merging information from CT scans, blood gas analysis and biomechanical simulations of air ventilation in the lung tissues performed by the software...
