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Evaluation And Use Of Regenerative Multi Electrode Interfaces In Peripheral Nerves
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Peripheral nerves offer unique accessibility to the innate motor and sensory pathways that can be interfaced with high degree of selectivity for intuitive and bidirectional control of advanced upper extremity prosthetic ...
Cross Wavelet Analysis Of Cerebral Hemodynamics In Young And Older Adults
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Measurement of cerebral autoregulation is important for the evaluation of a number of clinical disorders that affect cerebral blood flow. Cerebral autoregulation is a mechanism that involves dilation and constriction in ...
Development Of Trans-rectal Ultrasound (TRUS) Coupled Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) For Prostate Cancer Imaging
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes among cancer deaths in men in the United States. A minimally invasive real time searching tool for cancer need to be developed, which can enhance the odds of cancer detection; ...
Ultrasound-modulated Fluorescence Techniques
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Ultrasound-modulated fluorescence (UMF) imaging has been proposed as a novel imaging modality by combining ultrasound and optical imaging techniques for early cancer detection. In UMF, a focused ultrasound beam is used to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Quantification And Comparisons Of Motion Metrics For Finger Tapping Performed By Children With Cerebral Palsy Before And After Therapy With Two Motion Tracking Camera Systems
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-03-10)
The quantification of any improvements in the use of a paretic arm after children with cerebral palsy (CP) undergo rehabilitation is currently done by occupational therapists who administer a series of manual ability tests ...
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 ...
Design, Fabrication And Evaluation Of A Novel Microfluidic Based In Vitro Cell Migration Assay
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Microfabrication and microfluidic devices have been recognized as potential platforms for cell-based and drug screening studies. Human glioblastoma multiforme (hGBM) cells migrate inside the central nervous system (CNS) ...
Electrospun Biodegradable Polymeric Membranes For Post-surgery Anti-adhesion Applications
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-03-10)
Abdominal adhesion is a prevalent, troublesome condition occurring after surgical procedures and can cause a variety of side effects such as, abdominal pain with a highly associated cost ($1.3 billion annually for) for ...