Browsing Library by Author "Liu, Hanli"
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Exploratory Study Of Gold Nanoshell As A Therapeutic Thermal Ablation Agent For Cancer Treatment Using Laboratory And Animal Tissue Phantoms
Rathore, Yajuvendra (Biomedical Engineering, 2010-03-03)Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer in the United States and the second leading cause of male death from cancer. Surgical removal of the prostate is associated with high risks of surgical complications and ... -
Feasibility Study Of An Ultra Fast Gated Camera To Image Biliary Tree Embedded In Adipose Tissue Using Laboratory Phantoms And Monte Carlo Simulations
Patel, Nimit Lalitkumar (Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Every year, approximately 500,000 cholecystectomies are performed in US. As biliary tree structures are embedded in adipose tissue, they cannot be visualized directly by the surgeon, which causes inadvertent injuries to ... -
Hemodynamic Responses to Thermal Stimulation in the Prefrontal Cortex of the Brain measured by FNIRS
Chari, KoumudiAlthough FMRI has marked its importance in the neurological research by understanding the brain activities, FNIRS has also set a new standard in the brain imaging study research with non-invasive and easy to use technology. ... -
Implementation of a pain generator controlled by pressure and feasability in its applications for functional near-infrared spectroscopy
Tebebi, Pamela Agwa (Biomedical Engineering, 2011-10-11)Pain is a sensory and emotional experience as a result of possible or definite tissue damage. The level of pain is subjective to the individual's consciousness of sensory stimuli. Pain stimuli can be noxious (i.e., ... -
Interactive Analytical Tool for Quantitative Corneal Confocal Imaging in vivo
Tippani, Madhavi; 0000-0002-9601-7215 (2016-05-19)The objective of this study was to develop an interactive software application for image reconstruction and analysis of the corneal data from an in vivo confocal microscope (Heidelberg Retinal Tomograph with Rostock Corneal ... -
INVESTIGATING CAUSAL INTERACTIONS IN THE HUMAN BRAIN USING EEG AND fNIRS
Alipourfard, Borzou (2016-08-24)It is necessary for distributed neural assemblies to work in collaboration to achieve the most elementary brain functions. Activities within segregated neural assemblies are integrated to process an incredibly diverse ... -
Investigation of 1064-nm laser fluence within tissue phantoms and its in vivo effects on human brain networks
Parvez, Hasan; 0000-0002-7306-8044 (2018-05-22)For the past few decades there has been an increasing interest in the usage of near infrared (NIR) laser in the medical optics field. This is due to a number of studies conducted on different animal models utilizing NIR ... -
Investigation Of Brain Activities Using Two State-of-the-art Diffuse Optical Imagers
Prajapati, Suresh (Biomedical Engineering, 2007-09-17)Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and diffuse optical imaging (DOI) are increasingly used to detect hemodynamic changes in the cerebral cortex induced by brain activity. The new commercially available DOI systems CW5 and ... -
Investigation Of Breast Tumor Hemodynamics By Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Applications To Cancer Therapy Monitoring
Kim, Jae Gwan (Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Hyperoxic gas interventions using carbogen (95% O2 and 5% CO2) or oxygen has been tried to increase the tumor oxygenation since it will enhance the therapeutic effects on the tumors. Others in the laboratory had previously ... -
INVESTIGATION OF COPLING STRENGTH AND DIRECTIONALITY BETWEEN EEG AND FNIRS AT RESTING STATE USING PERMUTATION CONDITIONAL MUTUAL INFORMATION
Murugesan, Gowtham Krishnan (2016-08-26)The motivation of study is to combine multimodality approach EEG-fNIRS to study relationship between neural activity and hemodynamic response applying information theory concepts. Investigating human brain function can be ... -
INVESTIGATION OF FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY AND NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING IN DIFFERENT VIGILANCE / BREATH-HOLD STATES OF THE BRAIN FROM SIMULTANEOUS EEG-fNIRS MEASUREMENTS
Babawale, Olajide (2019-07-10)Functional connectivity and neurovascular coupling are important phenomena that occur in the brain. Functional connectivity is the study of functional brain networks and their characteristics. While neurovascular coupling ... -
Investigation Of Neural Correlates Between Perception Of Pain And Hemodynamic Response Measured In The Pre-frontal Cortex Using Functional Near Infra-red Spectroscopy
Krishnamurthy, Venkatagiri (Biomedical Engineering, 2011-10-11)Perception of pain is multi-dimensional, comprising three major psychological dimensions: sensory-discriminative, motivational-affective and cognitive-evaluative. This dissertation study investigates the cognitive evaluation ... -
INVESTIGATION OF PREFRONTAL COGNITION RESPONSES TO TRANSCRANIAL LASER STIMULATION IN PTSD USING FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
Patel, Dev Rajanikant; 0000-0002-1839-0938 (2016-05-31)In recent years low level laser therapy (LLLT) has been of great research interest because of its therapeutic applications in psychiatry, neurology and ophthalmology. In-vivo transcranial delivery of LLLT has shown to ... -
Involvement Of Mixed Lineage Leukemia And Homeobox Proteins In Dna Damage Recognition And Repair
Chakraborty, Somdutta (Biomedical Engineering, 2014-03-10)Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) molecules are informational molecules, encoding genetic information which is indispensable in the development and functioning of living organisms. DNA encodes for most proteins essential for all ... -
LIGHT REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE DETECTION OF POSITIVE SURGICAL MARGIN OF PROSTATE CANCER
Chan, Henry Thek; 0000-0002-8200-4085During a radical prostatectomy in the operating room, there exists a certain degree of risks of a surgical positive margin of prostate cancer. Positive surgical margins are defined as cancer that has spread beyond the ... -
Manipulating the K-Space for Reduction of Respiratory Induced Motion Artifacts
Ranjbar, Maida (2016-05-16)Respiratory induced motion artifacts, particularly those occurring in the abdomen and lung, pose a hefty problem in current diagnostic MR imaging. Application of images plagued with such artifacts not only hinder diagnosis, ... -
Mapping of Electroencephalogram (EEG) Responses to Newsvendor Decision Model and Cerebral Hemodynamic Responses to Transcranial Photobiomodulation (tPBM) in Humans
Truong, Cong Dung Nghi (2022-05-17)Decision-making is one of the most critical activities of human beings. Various studies have investigated the brain responses to a variety of decision tasks by deploying the EEG data. The first aim of my dissertation was ... -
MAPPING OF PREFRONTAL HEMODYNAMIC RESPONSES TO NOXIOUS STIMULATION AND CHRONIC PAIN RELATED RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL NETWORKS ASSESSED BY fNIRS
Yennu, Amarnath; 0000-0001-7809-2994 (2018-06-01)Neural representations of chronic pain are complex and are least understood. Numerous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have revealed structural and functional abnormalities in several cortical and sub-cortical ... -
Measurement Of Cerebral Blood Flow Using Arterial Spin Labeling Method Across Lifespan
Wang, CiwenArterial Spin Labeling (ASL) is one family of perfusion-weighted contrast imaging techniques of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) that measures cerebral blood flow by labeling spins in arterial blood with inversion and then ... -
Metabolic and Electrophysiological Effects of Transcranial Photobiomodulation (PBM) and Multi-wavelength PBM
Pruitt, Tyrell Byrom (2021-05-28)Photobiomodulation (PBM) with near infrared light may become a non-invasive, effective clinical tool after it is understood well for its mechanism of action. In my dissertation research, I have addressed three research ...