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Incorporation Of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor And Pleiotrophin Into A Multiluminal Biosynthetic Nerve Implant For The Repair Of Peripheral Nerve Long Gap Defects
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-03-03)To repair a fully transected nerve without putting undue tension on the nerve stumps, and too circumvent many of the obvious problems of using harvested nerve grafts synthetic nerve guides have been used in the clinical ... -
Influence Of Hypoxia, Hypercapnia And Inspiratory Efforts On Sympathoexcitation During Apnea
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is characterized by frequent periods of apnea resulting in hypoxia, hypercapnia and fluctuations of intrathoracic pressure (inspiratory efforts). Hypoxia, hypercapnia and inspiratory efforts ... -
Influence Of Polymer Surface Chemistry On The Recruitment Of Stem Cells In Mice
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-08-08)The most troublesome biological response to the implantation of bloodcontacting biomaterials is inflammation, which thereby-sets in motion a cascade of adverse host responses. If devices for therapy and drug delivery could ... -
Innovations In ¹H MR Tissue Oximetry: New Probes And Pulses
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-03-03)Low oxygenation level (hypoxia) of tissue leads to cellular dysfunction, damage and poor response to therapy. Quantitative measurement of tissue oxygenation is critical not only for the study of tissue physiology, but ... -
Integration Of Hyperspectral Imaging System For Optimized Data Acquisition And Control To Revolutionized Pathology Applications
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Detecting and measuring the interactions and expression levels of tumor markers in a cancerous cell are quintessential in prognosis and management of cancer. These have propagated the need to develop better microscopic ... -
Interactive Analytical Tool for Quantitative Corneal Confocal Imaging in vivo
(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
(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
(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
(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 Brain Activity In Prefrontal Cortex Under Noxious Pain Stimuli And During Psychological Test Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non-invasive functional neuroimaging technique, which measures changes in oxy-hemoglobin (HbO) and deoxy-hemoglobin (HbR) concentrations based on the principle of near ... -
An Investigation Of Concurrent Variations In Blood Oxygen Saturation And Cerebral Blood Flow During Apnea
(Biomedical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Sleep apnea derived from Greek word "apnoia" which means "without air or temporary interruption in breathing", is a sleep - associated breathing disorder that involves a decrease or complete stop in airflow despite a ... -
INVESTIGATION OF COPLING STRENGTH AND DIRECTIONALITY BETWEEN EEG AND FNIRS AT RESTING STATE USING PERMUTATION CONDITIONAL MUTUAL INFORMATION
(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 End-tidal Carbon Dioxide (ETCO₂) And Heart Rate Variations During Sleep Apnea
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Sleep Apnea is a sleep disorder where limitation or cessation of breathing occurs. It is characterized by abnormalities in the respiratory pattern and quantity of ventilation during sleep. According to a study 4% of men ... -
Investigation Of Information Processing And Cognitive Performance Capacities With Different Instrumentation Configurations
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The focus of this thesis is the investigation of two new performance capacity tests related to a concept known as "situational awareness": 1) Visual Motor Multitask Performance Capacity (VMMPC) and 2) Visual Auditory ... -
Investigation Of Nanoparticle Delivery To Cancer Cells By Conjugation With Various Targeting Moieties
Recently, mapping and profiling of specific tumor biomarkers characterizing cancer cells, followed by understanding of signal cascades involved in the pathogenesis of tumors (targeted therapy), as well as diagnosis in early ... -
An Investigation Of Peripheral Blood Volume And Oxygen Saturation Change In Obstructive Sleep Apnea
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a type of sleep disordered breathing in which the airway collapse partially or fully and causes arousal to resume breathing. In a 2009 National sleep foundation poll of 1000 people, 63% ... -
INVESTIGATION OF PREFRONTAL COGNITION RESPONSES TO TRANSCRANIAL LASER STIMULATION IN PTSD USING FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
(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 ... -
An Investigation Of Support Vector Machine Classifier In Detecting Nocturnal Airway Obstruction From Spontaneous Heart Rate Combined With ECG Morphology Changes
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-10-11)Sleep apnea is a sleep disordered breathing resulting from limitation or cessation to breathing for 10 or more seconds. The prevalence of sleep apnea has increased exponentially in the past decade. The increase in epidemic ... -
An Investigation Of The Covariations Between Variations In Exhaled Carbon Dioxide And Cerebral Blood Flow Levels During Apnea
Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by repetitive reduction or cessation of breathing during sleep. It is estimated that that around 17% of adults suffer from mild to severe sleep disordered breathing. The ... -
Involvement Of Mixed Lineage Leukemia And Homeobox Proteins In Dna Damage Recognition And Repair
(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 ...