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Identification of 2019-nCoV related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins in southern China
Published 2020The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and beyond is associated with a novel coronavirus, provisionally termed 2019-nCoV. This outbreak has been tentatively associated with a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where ...Preprint -
Identification of clinical features associated with mortality in COVID-19 patients
Published 2021Summary Background To prevent infectious diseases, it is necessary to understand how they are spread and their clinical features. Early identification of risk factors and clinical features is needed to identify critically ...Preprint -
Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins
Published 2020The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and across the world is associated with a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-21. This outbreak has been tentatively associated with a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where the sale ...Article -
Identifying the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Environmental Monitoring in Airborne Infectious Isolation Rooms (AIIRs)
Published 2020Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of occupational exposure to the new pandemic human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and are a source of nosocomial transmission in airborne infectious isolation rooms (AIIRs). Here, we ...Article -
IFI27 transcription is an early predictor for COVID-19 outcomes; a multi-cohort observational study
Published 2021Robust biomarkers that predict disease outcomes amongst COVID-19 patients are necessary for both patient triage and resource prioritisation. Numerous candidate biomarkers have been proposed for COVID-19. However, at present, ...Preprint -
IGRT and motion management during lung SBRT delivery.
Published 2017-12-01Patient motion can cause misalignment of the tumour and toxicities to the healthy lung tissue during lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Any deviations from the reference setup can miss the target and have ...Open AccessArticle -
Image-based retrospective 4D MRI in external beam radiotherapy: A comparative study with a digital phantom.
Published 2018-07-01PURPOSE: Several image-based retrospective sorting methods of 4D magnetic resonance imaging (4D MRI) have been proposed for respiratory motion reconstruction in external beam radiotherapy. However, the optimal strategy for ...Open AccessArticle -
Imaging performance of a dedicated radiation transparent RF coil on a 1.0 Tesla inline MRI-linac.
Published 2018-06-01This work describes the first imaging studies on a 1.0 Tesla inline MRI-Linac using a dedicated transmit/receive RF body coil that has been designed to be completely radio transparent and provide optimum imaging performance ...Open AccessArticle -
Immunotherapy use outside clinical trial populations: never say never?
Published 2021BACKGROUND: Based on favourable outcomes in clinical trials, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), most notably programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) inhibitors, are now widely ...Article -
The impact of 2019 novel coronavirus on heart injury: A systemic review and Meta-analysis
Published 2020Background: Evidence about COVID-19 on cardiac injury is inconsistent. Objectives: We aimed to summarize available data on severity differences in acute cardiac injury and acute cardiac injury with mortality during the ...Article -
The impact of audiovisual biofeedback on 4D functional and anatomic imaging: Results of a lung cancer pilot study.
Published 2016-08-01BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The impact of audiovisual (AV) biofeedback on four dimensional (4D) positron emission tomography (PET) and 4D computed tomography (CT) image quality was investigated in a prospective clinical trial ...Open AccessArticle -
Impact of audiovisual biofeedback on interfraction respiratory motion reproducibility in liver cancer stereotactic body radiotherapy.
Published 2018-02-01INTRODUCTION: Irregular breathing motion exacerbates uncertainties throughout a course of radiation therapy. Breathing guidance has demonstrated to improve breathing motion consistency. This was the first clinical ...Open AccessArticle -
The impact of communicating personal mental ill?health risk: A randomized controlled non?inferiority trial
Published 2020AIM: Risk algorithms predicting personal mental ill-health will form an important component of digital and personalized preventive interventions, yet it is unknown whether informing people of personal risk may cause ...Article -
The impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on intravitreal injections treatment for macular diseases: report from a referral hospital in Milan.
Published 2021Purpose: To describe our managing strategy for COVID-19 emergency, to evaluate the adherence to intravitreal treatment (AtT) rate during the outbreak in a referral hospital in Milan and to correlate it with patients clinical ...Article -
The impact of COVID-19 on contraception and abortion care policy and practice: experiences from selected countries.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Primary Care General Practice Consultations in a Teaching Hospital in Shanghai, China
Published 2021Background: The COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus disease) pandemic is deeply concerning because of its massive mortality and morbidity, creating adverse perceptions among patients likely to impact on their overall medical ...Article -
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Provision of Adult Cardiac Surgery at a Dedicated COVID Hospital in Australia
Published 2021BACKGROUND: Internationally, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in fewer cardiac surgical procedures being performed and an increase in the proportion of non-elective cases. To date there has been no study ...Article -
The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on community-oriented mental health services: The experience of Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Italy
Published 2021Objectives: to assess the changes in prevalence, incidence and hospitalisation rates during the first four months of 2020, compared to the same period of 2019, in Friuli Venezia Giulia Mental Health Departments (MHDs); to ...Article