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Kevin Franks

- Verified email at leeds.ac.uk - Cited by 4352

Kevin M. Franks

- Verified email at neuro.duke.edu - Cited by 2867

[HTML][HTML] British Thoracic Society guidelines for the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules: accredited by NICE

…, AR Akram, S Barnard, P Cane, J Draffan, K Franks… - Thorax, 2015 - thorax.bmj.com
This guideline is based on a comprehensive review of the literature on pulmonary nodules
and expert opinion. Although the management pathway for the majority of nodules detected is …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac toxicity of thoracic radiotherapy: existing evidence and future directions

K Banfill, M Giuliani, M Aznar, K Franks… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2021 - Elsevier
The impact of radiotherapy on the heart has become an area of interest in recent years. Many
different cardiac dose-volume constraints have been associated with cardiac toxicity and …

A systematic review of outcomes following stereotactic ablative radiotherapy in the treatment of early-stage primary lung cancer

P Murray, K Franks, GG Hanna - The British journal of radiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) describes a radiotherapy (RT) technique
where high doses of radiation are precisely delivered to an extracranial target within the body, …

Microplate Alamar Blue Assay for Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Susceptibility Testing

…, H Hoffmann, GR Pettit, R Tan, KS Franks… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biofilms are at the root of many infections largely because they are much more antibiotic
resistant than their planktonic counterparts. Antibiotics that target the biofilm phenotype are …

The inhibition of rabbit skeletal muscle contraction by hydrogen ions and phosphate.

R Cooke, K Franks, GB Luciani… - The Journal of …, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
1. The effects of phosphate and protons on the mechanics and energetics of muscle
contraction have been investigated using glycerinated rabbit psoas muscle. 2. Fibres were fully …

Cone-beam computed tomography for on-line image guidance of lung stereotactic radiotherapy: localization, verification, and intrafraction tumor position

TG Purdie, JP Bissonnette, K Franks, A Bezjak… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Purpose: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in-room imaging allows accurate inter-
and intrafraction target localization in stereotactic body radiotherapy of lung tumors. …

UK consensus on normal tissue dose constraints for stereotactic radiotherapy

…, L Murray, R Patel, S Jain, KL Aitken, KN Franks… - Clinical Oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Six UK studies investigating stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) are currently open.
Many of these involve the treatment of oligometastatic disease at different locations in the body…

NGF is essential for hippocampal plasticity and learning

…, KM Franks, AK Titterness, K Russell… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Nerve growth factor (NGF) is produced in the hippocampus throughout life and is retrogradely
trafficked to septal cholinergic neurons, providing a potential mechanism for modulating …

Development of soluble glasses for biomedical use Part II: the biological response of human osteoblast cell lines to phosphate-based soluble glasses

V Salih, K Franks, M James, GW Hastings… - Journal of Materials …, 2000 - Springer
Soluble glasses are considered to be of potential clinical value in orthopaedic and dental
surgery. However, the biological response to these materials is not well understood. To …

Independent sources of quantal variability at single glutamatergic synapses

KM Franks, CF Stevens, TJ Sejnowski - Journal of Neuroscience, 2003 - Soc Neuroscience
K XY is the kinetic rate for the transition from state X to state Y:K C0C1 , 4.59 × 10 6 m −1 sec
−1 ;K … : K C0C1 , 1 × 10 7 m −1 sec −1 ;K C1C0 , 4.7 sec −1 ;K C1C2 , 5 × 10 6 m −1 sec −1 ;…