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The University of Maine

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2017

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Basic Vision Research With Clinical Applications And Science Education Assessments, Andrew Wilson Jun 2017

Basic Vision Research With Clinical Applications And Science Education Assessments, Andrew Wilson

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Visual Acuity (VA) examinations are one of the most commonly conducted medical assessment throughout the world. Recent advances in computer technology allows for new forms of visual assessment to be conducted. In Part I of this thesis I demonstrate the capability of an automated computer program named VISION to assess human visual acuities. Different color combinations of an object against a background emitted from a computer screen are used to examine a variety of human color vision acuities. Results indicated a large difference in acuity scores between human subjects tested with these different color combinations. A single human subject exhibits …


A Study In Cross-Beam Polarization Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy On Dendra2-Hemagluttinin In Fixed Nih3t3 Cells, Matthew M. Valles May 2017

A Study In Cross-Beam Polarization Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy On Dendra2-Hemagluttinin In Fixed Nih3t3 Cells, Matthew M. Valles

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Fluorescence microscopy is popular for its noninvasive properties and its use in imaging multiple species, simultaneously. Furthermore, superresolution fluorescence microscopy (SRFLM) utilizes photoswitchable proteins to improve the lateral resolution of conventional fluorescence microscopy by an order of magnitude. There is little work conducted on the study of excitation laser polarizations and their effect on the number of localizations as well as the brightness of molecules. This thesis attempts to study the effect of excitation wavelength polarization on the number of localizations and the brightness of molecules by comparing two orientations of circularly-polarized, excitation lasers. The first type of orientation involves …