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Measurement Of Cerebral Blood Flow Using Arterial Spin Labeling Method Across Lifespan
Arterial 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 ... -
Measurement Of Transverse Relaxation Times Of Cerebral Metabolites In Brain Tumors
(Biomedical Engineering, 2013-10-22)Proton (¹H) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) provides a non-invasive means of assessing metabolite concentration for a range of biologically important cerebral compounds in vivo. To extract quantitative information, ... -
Mechanism Of Nanoparticle And Nanotube-induced Cell Death
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Recent advances in nanotechnology have lead to synthesis of high-quality nanoparticles which exhibit unique physical and chemical properties. The novel properties of these nanoparticles are widely being applied for diagnostic ... -
Microfluidic Chip-based Fabrication Of Hollow Alginate Microfiber For Enzyme Entrapment And Reaction
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)This thesis demonstrates a simple process to generate alginate hollow microfibers by using a non-lithographic PDMS microfluidic device. The microfluidic device was fabricated by a novel template method in a wet lab without ... -
Microfluidic Device For Determining Preferential Cell Migration Toward Extracellular Matrix Proteins
(Biomedical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins interact with cells in bodily microenvironments by influencing their essential cellular processes in growth, survival, migration and repair after injury. In this study, a novel microfluidic ... -
Microfluidic Flow Cytometer For High Throughput Label Free Cell Analysis
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Microfluidic flow cytometer for high throughput label free cell analysis is proposed. Detection of cell morphology plays an important role in determination of state of health and diagnosis of many diseases such as sickle ... -
Microfluidic Systems For Studying Cell Motility
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-11-01)It is very imperative to develop new in vitro platforms that can help in studying the complex interactions that occur between cell-Extracellular Matrix proteins and also during the process of cell migration in vivo. Such ... -
Micromotion And Scarring Do Not Contribute To Failure Of Regenerative Peripheral Neural Interfacing
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-03-10)Neuroprosthetics facilitate amputees with motor function restoration by interfacing nervous system with artificial limb and enabling control of the prosthetic device by volitional thought. Though such neurointerfacing ... -
Miniature Optical Coherence Tomography Probe
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)A piezo based optical scanner for high speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been developed. Design of the miniature probe has been optimized to take advantages of the high speed depth scanning that can be achieved ... -
Model Driven Analysis Of Optical Reflectance Spectroscopy For Detection Of Human Prostate And Kidney Cancers
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Renal cell carcinoma is one of the most common forms of kidney cancer originating from the renal tubule. During surgery, it is difficult for the surgeons to identify the cancer tissue from the normal tissue and also the ... -
Molecular Modelling Of DNA Translocation In Bio-functionalized Nanopores With Applications In Gene Sequencing
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-03-03)The human genome project which was completed in 2003 took more than 12 years to complete at a cost of $2.7 billion. The advancement in technologies in the next five years led to the same feat being achieved in 5 months ... -
MR Susceptibility Weighted Imaging And Its Clinical Applications
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) is a new T2* weighted Gradient Echo sequence that exploits the magnetic properties of tissues due to local inhomogeneities in the magnetic field. This technique was originally called ... -
A Multimodality DLP® Imaging System For Clinical Surgery
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)With 1.38 million new cases and 450,000 deaths worldwide due to breast cancer, there is a clear need for safe and complete surgical intervention for the treatment of breast cancer. Imaging solutions have been created and ... -
Nanoscale Approaches For Biomolecule Separation And Detection
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-03-03)Nanotechnology has the potential to contact and impact the biological interactions at the most basic chemical and physical levels. New approaches to nanodevices allow high sensitivity and specificity with low sample ... -
Near Infrared Quantitative Phase Imaging Of Cellular Manipulation Under Different Physio-chemical Environments
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-03-10)Quantitative phase imaging using Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM) is emerging as a label-free and wide-field method of characterizing cells with high spatio-temporal resolution. In parallel, silicon based micromechanical ... -
Near Infrared Spectroscopy: A Study Of Cerebral Hemodynamics During Breathholding And Development Of A System For Hot Flash Measurement
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and imaging has become popular in research fields for the past 2-3 decades. My research focuses on the continuous wave near infrared imaging technique. The work consists of two main parts. ... -
Noninvasive Assessment Of Tumor Hypoxia Using Oxygen Sensitive MRI In Prostate Tumor Models
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-03-12)A variety of solid tumors reveal oxygen deficiency as a result of rapid growth and insufficient tumor angiogenesis. Hypoxia in solid tumors appears to speed up malignant progression and metastatic potential of primary ... -
A Novel Approach For MRI Image Classification And Image Retrieval
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-09-17)OBJECTIVE: Classification of MRI image data based on its attribute characteristics is very important for storing the image data and its efficient retrieval. This project aims to find a solution to the problem of classification ... -
A Novel Approach In The Detection Of Obstructive Sleep Apnea From Electrocardiogram Signals Using Neural Network Classification Of Textural Features Extracted From Time-frequency Plots
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Sleep-Disordered Breathing (SDB) is estimated to have a prevalence of 5% in middle-aged population. The population is widely thought to be under diagnosed, since the present method to detect and diagnose SDB, Nocturnal ... -
A Novel Device For The Establishment Of An Animal Model Mimicking Spinal Deformity Surgery For Neurological Deficit Risk Mitigation
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-03-03)Correction forces during spine deformity surgery impart significant multidirectional stress forces to the spinal cord, which in some cases result in severe damage to the spinal cord and permanent paralysis, the most feared ...