Browsing by Author "Meissner, Kenith E."
Now showing items 1-20 of 21
-
Ritter, Sarah C (2014-09-05)Development of sensors for detection of various chemical and biological species is an important and ever-growing field. In particular, optical-based sensors enable a remote, rapid method for continuous or on-demand monitoring. ...
-
Amini, Sina (2013-03-26)Near-membrane and trans-membrane proteins and their interactions with the extracellular matrix (ECM) can yield valuable information about cell dynamics. However, advances in the field of nanoscale cellular processes have ...
-
Jung, Dong Jin (2012-07-16)This dissertation mainly discuses various microstrip bandpass filter (BPF) designs. The filter designs include: a coupled line BPF using nonuniform arbitrary image impedances, miniaturized BPF utilizing dumbbell shaped ...
-
Design and Verification of an Optical System to Interrogate Dermally-implanted Microparticle Sensors Long, Ruiqi (2012-07-16)Diabetes mellitus affects 25.8 million Americans (8.3%) and over 300 million people worldwide. Clinical trials indicate that proper management of blood glucose levels is critical in preventing or delaying complications ...
-
Nathwani, Bhavik Bharat (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Recent progress in the field of semiconductor nanocrystals or Quantum Dots (QDs) has seen them find wider acceptance as a tool in biomedical research labs. As produced, high quality QDs synthesized by high temperature ...
-
Malik, Bilal Hameed (2012-02-14)Clinical guidelines dictate that frequent blood glucose monitoring in diabetic patients is critical towards proper management of the disease. Although, several different types of glucose monitors are now commercially ...
-
Ritter, Sarah C.; Milanick, Mark A.; Meissner, Kenith E. (Biomedical Optics Express, 2011)
-
Ibey, Bennett Luke (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The need for overnight and continuous monitoring of glucose levels in diabetic patients is profound, especially among juveniles. Implantation of a chemical assay which responds optically to changes in glucose concentration ...
-
Singh, Saurabh (2011-08-08)Luminescent microspheres encapsulating glucose oxidase and an oxygensensitive lumophore have recently been reported as potential implantable sensors for in vivo glucose monitoring. However, there are two main issues that ...
-
Juriani, Ameet Rajkumar (2011-08-08)This thesis presents a novel method for the preparation of quantum dot-thermoresponsive polymer nanocomposite hydrogels. The quantum dots (QD’s) were synthesized in a microwave reactor using a high temperature organometallic ...
-
Chen, Bonnie (2014-08-19)Carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) are a new type of luminescent nanomaterial which have strong potential in biological and biomedical applications, and have been the subject of intense research in recent years. CNPs are ...
-
Romoser, Amelia; Ritter, Dustin; Majitha, Ravish; Meissner, Kenith E.; McShane, Michael; Sayes, Christie M.; Chirico, Giuseppe (PloS One, 2011)
-
Shah, Suhani Kiran (2009-05-15)The technique of single particle Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (TIRM) has been used to study the scattering intensity from levitated microspheres. TIRM can be used to monitor the separation between microscopic spheres ...
-
Roberts, Jason Richard (2014-07-24)The development of fully-implantable therapeutic and diagnostic devices represents a new paradigm in biomedical device design. However, designing materials that can perform as injectable matrices for the delivery of sensing ...
-
Larson, Adam Michael (2009-05-15)Nonlinear optical microscopy (NLOM) utilizing femtosecond laser pulses is well suited for imaging living tissues. This work reports on the design and development of an optical fiber based multispectral NLOM developed around ...
-
Cummins, Brian Michael (2014-03-18)Improved continuous glucose monitoring devices have the potential to increase patient compliance and improve the management of diabetes. One type of sensing chemistry that has been recognized as having significant amount ...
-
Muthukumar, Shankarapandian (2009-05-15)This work involves the development of a new technique that integrates Diffusing Colloidal Probe Microscopy (DCPM) and luminescence to simultaneously measure multiple particle-wall interactions. DCPM can be used to map ...
-
Lu, Mingqing (2009-05-15)The behavior of dense colloidal fluids near surfaces can now be probed in great detail with experimental techniques like video and confocal microscopy. In fact we are approaching a point where quantitative comparisons of ...
-
Balasubramanian, Haribhaskar (2009-05-15)Nonlinear optical microscopy (NLOM) offers many advantages when imaging intact biological samples. By using ultrafast lasers in the near infrared and two photon excitation (TPE), signal production is limited to the focal ...
-
Pang, Shuo (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)This thesis presents the development of a refractometric sensor based on quantum dot-embedded polystyrene microspheres. The technique uses optical resonances within a microsphere, known as Whispering-Gallery Modes (WGMs), ...