Browsing Masters Theses by Affiliation of Duke Author(s) "Biomedical Engineering"
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Attenuation of inflammatory events in human intervertebral disc cells with a tumor necrosis factor antagonist.
(2010)STUDY DESIGN: The inflammatory responses of primary human intervertebral disc (IVD) cells to tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and an antagonist were evaluated in vitro. OBJECTIVE: To investigate an ability for soluble TNF ... -
Comparative performance of multiview stereoscopic and mammographic display modalities for breast lesion detection.
(2010)PURPOSE: Mammography is known to be one of the most difficult radiographic exams to interpret. Mammography has important limitations, including the superposition of normal tissue that can obscure a mass, chance alignment ... -
Plate-specific gain map correction for the improvement of detective quantum efficiency in computed radiography.
(2010)The purpose of this work is to improve the NPS, and thus DQE, of CR images by correcting for pixel-to-pixel gain variations specific to each plate. Ten high-exposure open field images were taken with an RQA5 spectrum, with ... -
Stream segregation on a single electrode as a function of pulse rate in cochlear implant listeners.
(2010)While cochlear implants usually provide a high level of speech recognition in quiet, speech recognition in noise and music appreciation remain challenging. In response to these issues, several studies have proposed increasing ...
