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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 ... -
Large Array EMG Monitoring Of Lumbar Region Muscle Action In Discogenic Low Back Pain
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This project explored the use of large array surface electromyography (LASE) as a technique for assessing the patterns of muscular activity under standardized loading conditions in patients with lumbar disc related pain ... -
LIGHT REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE DETECTION OF POSITIVE SURGICAL MARGIN OF PROSTATE CANCER
During 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 ... -
Localization Of Biliary Tree Structures By Use Of Photon Diffusion Models
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-08-08)A novel computational methodology is proposed for the intraoperative localization of biliary tree structures by means of spectrally resolved near-infrared reflectance measurements. As these structures are embedded in fatty ... -
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF CEREBROVASCULAR REACTIVITY USING GAS INHALATION CHALLENGES
(2016-01-06)Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is a measure of dilation capacity of cerebral vasculature. It is an important biomarker for the vascular functionality and integrity, and may have clinical indications in stroke, ather ... -
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study Of Metabolic Profiles In Brain Tumors
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Metabolic profiles in brain tumors were measured using proton (1H) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) at 3T. Spectra were obtained from normal tissues and tumor mass regions of 6 low-grade gliomas, 7 anaplastic astrocytomas ... -
Magnetically Anchored "reduced Trocar" Laparoscopy: Evolution Of Surgical Robotics
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Laparoscopic surgery has become increasingly popular over the last few years due to its benefits; lower morbidity, less perceived pain, better cosmesis results, and less hospital time. For the surgeon however, there are ... -
Manipulating the K-Space for Reduction of Respiratory Induced Motion Artifacts
(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, ... -
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 ...