Browsing Department of Bioengineering by Title
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Method to Analyze Three-Dimensional Cell Distribution and Infiltration in Degradable Scaffolds
(Mary Ann Liebert inc.Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Effective cell seeding throughout the tissue scaffold often determines the success of tissue-engineering products, although most current methods focus on determining ... -
Methodological Advances And Application Of Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy To Guide Cortical Stimulation For Physical Recovery In Patients With Brain Injury
Non-invasive cortical stimulation used in conjunction with physical therapy can enhance the motor performance of persons with brain injury. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive cortical stimulation ... -
Methodology Of Citrate-based Biomaterial Development And Application
(Biomedical Engineering, 2012-04-11)Biomaterials play central roles in modern strategies of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Attempts to find tissue-engineered solutions to cure various injuries or diseases have led to an enormous increase in ... -
Methodology Of Citric Acid Based Functional Biomaterial Development And Application
(Biomedical Engineering, 2013-03-20)Biomaterials play critical roles in modern strategies of biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering, and theranostic therapy. Attempts to design ideal biomaterials for each specific application have led to an ... -
Micro-device For Selective Isolation And Cytology Of Cancer Cells
(Biomedical Engineering, 2012-07-25)Early detection and isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) can enable early cancer diagnosis and more effective therapeutics. Aptamers have emerged as probe molecules that have binding affinities comparable to antibodies ... -
Microchannel technology in cancer cell confined-migration study and its application in drug screening
(2020-08-10)PDMS-based microchannel device has been explored to extend the basic platform for three-dimensional (3D) culture models of cell motility study because of its relevant stiffness and designable shape. Moreover, it is easy ... -
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 ... -
Microfluidic Device For Determining Preferential Cell Migration Toward Extracellular Matrix Proteins
(Biomedical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins interact with cells in bodily microenvironments by influencing their essential cellular processes in growth, survival, migration and repair after injury. In this study, a novel microfluidic ... -
Microfluidic Flow Cytometer For High Throughput Label Free Cell Analysis
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Microfluidic flow cytometer for high throughput label free cell analysis is proposed. Detection of cell morphology plays an important role in determination of state of health and diagnosis of many diseases such as sickle ... -
Microfluidic Systems For Studying Cell Motility
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-11-01)It is very imperative to develop new in vitro platforms that can help in studying the complex interactions that occur between cell-Extracellular Matrix proteins and also during the process of cell migration in vivo. Such ... -
Micromotion And Scarring Do Not Contribute To Failure Of Regenerative Peripheral Neural Interfacing
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-03-10)Neuroprosthetics facilitate amputees with motor function restoration by interfacing nervous system with artificial limb and enabling control of the prosthetic device by volitional thought. Though such neurointerfacing ... -
Miniature Optical Coherence Tomography Probe
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)A piezo based optical scanner for high speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been developed. Design of the miniature probe has been optimized to take advantages of the high speed depth scanning that can be achieved ... -
Model Driven Analysis Of Optical Reflectance Spectroscopy For Detection Of Human Prostate And Kidney Cancers
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Renal cell carcinoma is one of the most common forms of kidney cancer originating from the renal tubule. During surgery, it is difficult for the surgeons to identify the cancer tissue from the normal tissue and also the ... -
MODULATION OF PHYSIOLOGIC RESPONSES OF INSULIN SECRETING CELLS USING ELECTRICAL AND PHOTOSTIMULATION
(2020-09-01)Islet transplantation is a surgical procedure aimed at providing insulin independence to those suffering with Type I diabetes. Prior to implantation, a therapeutic window exists ex vivo where the cells can be treated in ... -
Molecular Modelling Of DNA Translocation In Bio-functionalized Nanopores With Applications In Gene Sequencing
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-03-03)The human genome project which was completed in 2003 took more than 12 years to complete at a cost of $2.7 billion. The advancement in technologies in the next five years led to the same feat being achieved in 5 months ... -
MR Susceptibility Weighted Imaging And Its Clinical Applications
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) is a new T2* weighted Gradient Echo sequence that exploits the magnetic properties of tissues due to local inhomogeneities in the magnetic field. This technique was originally called ... -
MRI Assessment Of Brain Vascular Reactivity To Physiological Challenges
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)With a growing need for specific biomarkers in vascular diseases, the past decade has seen a surging interest in mapping brain vascular reactivity. There is great potential that this CVR mapping can be added to standard ... -
Multi-ligand Nanoparticles For Targeted Drug Delivery To The Injured Vascular Wall
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Pathological conditions like coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and peripheral artery diseases as well as cardiovascular interventions used in the treatment of coronary artery diseases such as ... -
Multi-modality Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Typical and Atypical Developmental Human Brain
(2016-12-20)Human brain development is structurally and functionally a nonlinear process and even with the tremendous advancements in the field of neuroimaging based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) several significant questions ... -
Multifunctionality of indocyanine green-loaded biodegradable nanoparticles for enhanced optical imaging and hyperthermia intervention of cancer
(SPIEDepartment of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)The aim of this study was to develop and characterize multifunctional biodegradable and biocompatible poly lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) nanoparticles loaded with indocyanine green (ICG) as an optical-imaging contrast agent ...