Browsing by Subject "Biomedical Engineering"
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Pediatric Head and Neck Dynamic Response: A Computational Study
(2011)Traumatic injuries are the leading cause of death to children between the ages of one to nineteen years in the United States. The primary source of these traumatic injuries is motor vehicle traffic, with the head being the ... -
PSTD Method for Thermoacoustic Tomography (TAT) and Related Experimental Investigation
(2009)In this work, the simulation (forward problem) and reconstruction (inverse problem) in Thermoacoustic Tomography (TAT) are studied using a pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) method with 4th-order time integration.The objective ... -
Pump-Probe Molecular Imaging
(2011)In this dissertation, we develop pump probe spectroscopy as a method to differentiate different chemical varieties of melanin, a common biopigment, and exploit these differences to improve the accuracy of melanoma diagnosis. ... -
Semi-Quantitative Metrics in Positron Emission Tomography
(2010)The Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) is a method for semiquantitative evaluation of radiotracer accumulation on PET scans. Changes in SUV can be used to determine treatment response. However, SUV measurements are influenced ... -
"Smart" Behavior of Non-Canonical Elastin-Like Polypeptides
(2011)Despite decades of research since the discovery of the environmental sensitivity of tropoelastin, only a handful of elastin-inspired polypeptides departing from the canonical VPGXG motif, where X is any amino acid except ... -
Stretch-Induced Effects on MicroRNA Expression and Exogenous MicroRNA Delivery in Differentiating Skeletal Myoblasts
(2009)The research presented here represents a quest to understand and address limitations in the field of skeletal muscle tissue engineering, with hopes to better understand the factors involved in producing viable engineered ... -
The Effect of Entrapped Laminin-111 in Three-dimensional Polyethylene Glycol Gels on the Behavior of Nucleus Pulposus Cells from the Intervertebral Disc
(2010)The intervertebral disc (IVD) is a fibro-cartilaginous tissue that supports and distributes loads applied to the spine. The two main tissues types of the IVD are the anulus fibrosus (AF), which is comprised of highly organized ... -
Tissue Engineering of a Differentiated Skeletal Muscle Construct with Controllable Structure and Function
(2011)Transplantation of a functional engineered skeletal muscle substitute is a promising therapeutic option to repair irreversible muscle damage, and, on the other hand, functional muscle tissue constructs can serve as in vitro ... -
Ultrasound Catheter Transducers for Intracranial Brain Imaging and Therapy
(2011)Each year, over 13,000 people in the United States die from a primary malignant brain tumor. Currently, primary BTs are treated most commonly by surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic chemotherapy, though each of these methods ... -
Use of Human Blood-Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells to Improve the Performance of Vascular Grafts
(2011)Synthetic small diameter vascular grafts fail clinically due to thrombosis and intimal hyperplasia. The attachment of endothelial cells (ECs) onto the inner lumen of synthetic small diameter vascular grafts can improve graft ...
