Browsing by Author "Maitland, Kristen"
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Juarez Chambi, Ronald Miguel (2020-03-16)In brain cancer surgery, it is critical to achieve extensive tumor resection without compromising adjacent healthy brain tissue. Various technologies (e.g. intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography) ...
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Dabir, Aditi Sandeep (2010-07-14)Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (TRFS) is a powerful analytical tool for quantifying the biochemical composition of organic and inorganic materials. The potentials of TRFS as nondestructive clinical tool for tissue ...
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Pearson, Jeremy T (2013-05-06)I propose and demonstrate a method by which barium titanate nanoparticle clusters can be used as exogenous contrast agents in Second Harmonic Optical Coherence Tomography imaging systems to localize and highlight desired ...
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Troyanova-Wood, Maria A. (2019-06-03)The overall physiological function of a tissue or organ is closely related to its mechanical properties. These properties may change during many normal physiological processes or as part of healthy adaptations to altered ...
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Olsovsky, Cory; Shelton, Ryan; Carrasco-Zevallos, Oscar; Applegate, Brian; Maitland, Kristen (Biomedical Optics Express, 2013)
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Duran Sierra, Elvis de Jesus (2020-04-22)Oral cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the US, killing around 8,000 people each year. Patients diagnosed at advanced stages have only a 40% chance of survival and commonly require painful and highly ...
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Fine, Jesse Mattison (2022-07-28)Cardiovascular disease and Diabetes Mellitus are chronic diseases that affect the quality of life of tens of millions of Americans and result in hundreds of billions of dollars in economic impact within the United States. ...
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Rico Jimenez, Jose de Jesus (2016-12-09)Multimodal imaging systems have emerged as robust methods for the characterization of atherosclerotic plaques and early diagnosis of oral cancer. Multispectral wide-field Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) has ...
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Thomas, Patrick A. (2010-10-12)Vulnerable plaque is a clinically silent condition of atherosclerotic plaque that leaves a large number of patients at risk of a coronary event. A method to detect vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque would greatly enhance ...
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Walton, Brian M. (2017-08-02)Citrulline has shown potential as a biomarker. It can be used for a number of clinical applications including diagnosis in the clinic, as a research tool, to accurately indicate the amount of radiation absorbed by the body, ...
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Sia, Jeremy P (2016-08-09)Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a recessive disorder affecting one in every 3,600 males. The progressive disorder causes lifelong muscle degeneration and eventual death. As no cure is currently available, research ...
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Garza, Javier Trinidad (2017-08-10)Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the most common causes of death in the world. The main symptom after the onset of MI is chest pain, which is one of the leading reasons for emergency department (ED) visits. When a ...
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Lee, Anthony Chien-der (2012-10-19)Nonlinear Optical Microscopy (NLOM) has been shown to be a valuable tool for noninvasive imaging of complex biological systems. An effective approach for multicolor molecular microscopy is simultaneous excitation of multiple ...
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Schmucker, Jason (2012-10-19)The stability of drops forced by both wind and gravity is a fluid mechanics problem relevant to heat exchangers, fuel cells, and aircraft icing. To investigate this phenomenon, drops from 15 micro-liters to 400 micro-liters ...
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Mufti, Nooman Sadat (2012-02-14)Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, has an incubation period ranging from a few months to several years following infection via inhalation into the lungs. Whole body fluorescence scanners ...
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Cheng, Shuna (2014-10-10)Standard diagnosis of oral cancer is based on visual inspection and palpation by a clinician followed by histological examination of one or more tissue biopsies. Choosing the right location for biopsies, which represents ...
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Olsovsky, Cory Allan (2017-01-23)Light microscopy techniques provide a means to image interesting features on the very small scale. Advances in passive and active optical elements have driven progress in microscopy, including but not limited to super-resolution, ...
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Tu, Dandan (2021-10-22)Myocardial infarction (MI) is a critical disease that affects a large population and has a high rate of mortality. Development of a point-of-care (POC) system for the detection of a biomarker panel composed of cardiac ...
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Cuenca Martinez, Rodrigo (2017-04-28)Endogenous Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) is a noninvasive technique that has been explored with promising results in a wide range of biomedical applications, including clinical diagnosis. A central issue for the ...
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Palma Chavez, Jorge Arturo (2020-01-08)Atherosclerosis, a condition in which plaque accumulates on the inner wall of arteries, is often recognized as a precursor to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the most common causes of death in the US. Optical Coherence ...