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Towards Clinical Microscopic Fractional Anisotropy Imaging, Nico Jj Arezza
Towards Clinical Microscopic Fractional Anisotropy Imaging, Nico Jj Arezza
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Microscopic fractional anisotropy (µFA) is a diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) metric that is sensitive to neuron microstructural features without being confounded by the orientation dispersion of axons and dendrites. µFA may potentially act as a surrogate biomarker for neurodegeneration, demyelination, and other pathological changes to neuron microstructure with greater specificity than other dMRI techniques that are sensitive to orientation dispersion, such as diffusion tensor imaging. As with many advanced imaging techniques, µFA is primarily used in research studies and has not seen use in clinical settings.
The primary goal of this Thesis was to assess the clinical viability of …
Cardiac Modelling Techniques To Predict Future Heart Function And New Biomarkers In Acute Myocardial Infarction, Sergio C. H. Dempsey
Cardiac Modelling Techniques To Predict Future Heart Function And New Biomarkers In Acute Myocardial Infarction, Sergio C. H. Dempsey
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Fundamental to treatment planning for patients that have suffered myocardial infarction are predictive biomarkers and risk factors. Important among these in terms of a patient’s treatment plan or prognosis are the contractility of the damaged myofibers, final infarct volume, and poor infarct healing rate. Proposed and developed in this thesis are techniques to predict these biomarkers and risk factors using cardiac biomechanical modelling. One of the developed techniques was a CT compatible shape optimization technique which can predict the contraction force of healthy, and stunned myofibers within 6.3% and the distribution of potentially necrotic myofibers within 10% accuracy. The second …
Oriented Collagen And Applications Of Waveguide Evanescent Field Scattering (Wefs) Microscopy, Qamrun Nahar
Oriented Collagen And Applications Of Waveguide Evanescent Field Scattering (Wefs) Microscopy, Qamrun Nahar
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In this thesis, Waveguide Evanescent Field Scattering (WEFS) microscopy is developed as a non-invasive, label-free live cell imaging technique. This new high-contrast imaging can be employed to study the first hundred nanometers from the surface as it utilizes the evanescent field of a waveguide as the illumination source. Previously, waveguide evanescent field fluorescence (WEFF) microscopy was developed as a fluorescence imaging technique comparable to the total internal reflection fluorescent (TIRF) microscopy. Both the WEFF and WEFS technique utilizes the same fundamental concepts except in WEFS microscopy imaging is accomplished without the application of any fluorescent labeling. In this work, bacterial …
Fabricating Cost-Effective Nanostructures For Biomedical Applications, Erden Ertorer
Fabricating Cost-Effective Nanostructures For Biomedical Applications, Erden Ertorer
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In this thesis we described inexpensive alternatives to fabricate nanostructures on planar substrates and provided example applications to discuss the efficiency of fabricated nanostructures.
The first method we described is forming large area systematically changing multi-shape nanoscale structures on a chip by laser interference lithography. We analyzed the fabricated structures at different substrate positions with respect to exposure time, exposure angle and associated light intensity profile. We presented experimental details related to the fabrication of symmetric and biaxial periodic nanostructures on photoresist, silicon surfaces, and ion-milled glass substrates. Behavior of osteoblasts and osteoclasts on the nanostructures was investigated. These results …