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Design of an elastic porous injectable biomaterial for tissue regeneration and volume retention

Soft tissue reconstruction currently relies on two main approaches, one involving the implantation of ex-ternal biomaterials and the second one exploiting surgical autologous tissue displacement. While both methods have different advantages and disadvantag ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Comparison of non-parametric T2 relaxometry methods for myelin water quantification

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gian Franco Piredda, Marco Pizzolato, Thomas Yu, Alessandro Daducci, Nicolas Kunz

Multi-component T2 relaxometry allows probing tissue microstructure by assessing compartment-specific T2 relaxation times and water fractions, including the myelin water fraction. Non-negative least squares (NNLS) with zero-order Tikhonov regularization is ...

2021

MarrowQuantAcross Aging and Aplasia: A Digital Pathology Workflow for Quantification of Bone Marrow Compartments in Histological Sections

Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Olivier Burri, Rita Sarkis, Nicolas Kunz, Vasco Ledebur de Antas de Campos, Josefine Catharina Pedersen Tratwal, Frédérica Schyrr, Chiheb Boussema, Shanti Rojas-Sutterlin, Daniel Naveed Tavakol

The bone marrow (BM) exists heterogeneously as hematopoietic/red or adipocytic/yellow marrow depending on skeletal location, age, and physiological condition. Mouse models and patients undergoing radio/chemotherapy or suffering acute BM failure endure rapi ...

2020

Noninvasive rapid detection of metabolic adaptation in activated human T lymphocytes by hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance

Mor-Miri Mishkovsky, Arnaud Comment, Hikari Ananda Infinity Yoshihara, Nicolas Kunz, Emine Can

The metabolic shift induced in human CD4+ T lymphocytes by stimulation is characterized by an upregulation of glycolysis, leading to an augmentation in lactate production. This adaptation has already been highlighted with various techniques and reported in ...

Nature Research2020

MarrowQuant across Aging and Aplasia: A Digital Pathology Tool for Quantification of Bone Marrow Compartments in Histological Sections

Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Olivier Burri, Rita Sarkis, Nicolas Kunz, Vasco Ledebur de Antas de Campos, Josefine Catharina Pedersen Tratwal, Frédérica Schyrr, Shanti Rojas-Sutterlin

WILEY2020

Music enhances structural maturation of emotional processing neural pathways in very preterm infants

Nicolas Kunz, Laura Ioana Gui, François Lazeyras

Prematurity disrupts brain maturation by exposing the developing brain to different noxious stimuli present in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and depriving it from meaningful sensory inputs during a critical period of brain development, leading to ...

2020

Diffusion behavior of cerebral metabolites of congenital portal systemic shunt mice assessed noninvasively by diffusion-weighted H-1 magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Hongxia Lei, Nicolas Kunz, Masoumeh Dehghani Moghadam

Diffusion-weighted H-1-MRS (DW-MRS) allows for noninvasive investigation of the cellular compartmentalization of cerebral metabolites. DW-MRS applied to the congenital portal systemic shunt (PSS) mouse brain may provide specific insight into alterations of ...

2019

Neuronal energy metabolism in the mouse brain measured by H-1-[C-13] MRS at 14.1T under [3-C-13]-Lactate infusion: a feasibility study

Bernard Lanz, Lijing Xin, Hongxia Lei, Nicolas Kunz

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2019

Unified multi-modal characterization of microstructural parameters of brain tissue using diffusion MRI and multi-echo T2 data

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Alessandro Daducci, Nicolas Kunz, Marco Pizzolato

In this study, a unified framework to estimate different microstructure indices from diffusion MRI and multi-echo T2 (MET2) data was proposed.The new methodology takes into account the common and complementary information provided by both modalities. While ...

2018

Intra- and extra-axonal axial diffusivities in the white matter: Which one is faster?

Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Nicolas Kunz

A two-compartment model of diffusion in white matter, which accounts for intra- and extra-axonal spaces, is associated with two plausible mathematical scenarios: either the intra-axonal axial diffusivity Da,‖ is higher than the extra-axonal De,‖ (Branch 1) ...

2018