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Quantitative Optical Imaging Of Metabolic And Structural Biomarkers In Rodent Injury Models, Shima Mehrvar
Quantitative Optical Imaging Of Metabolic And Structural Biomarkers In Rodent Injury Models, Shima Mehrvar
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The assessment of organ metabolic function using optical imaging techniques is an overgrowing field of disease diagnosis. The broad research objective of my PhD thesis is to detect quantitative biomarkers by developing and applying optical imaging and image processing tools to animal models of human diseases. To achieve this goal, I have designed and implemented an optical imaging instrument called in vivo fluorescence imager to study wound healing progress. I have also developed a 3-dimensional (3D) vascular segmentation technique that uses intrinsic fluorescence images of whole organs.
Intrinsic fluorophores (autofluorescence signals) provide information about the status of cellular bioenergetics in …