Browsing by Author "Adam W. Anderson"
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Tang, Lin (2007-12-05)Department: PhysicsThe aim of the research described in this thesis was to study basic mechanisms of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and to develop an improved understanding of the Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) effect. In ...
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Dortch, Richard D. (2009-04-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its sensitivity to a wide array of contrast mechanisms in soft tissue. Unfortunately, the physiological and/or microanatomical characteristics that give rise to this contrast ...
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Sexton, John Andrew (2010-03-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringWithin the last decade, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners with ultra-high magnetic field strengths of 7 Tesla and above have become available. While high magnetic fields provide theoretical improvements in the ...
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West, Kathryn Louise (2016-11-17)Department: Biomedical EngineeringAdvanced neuroimaging techniques provide the possibility to non-invasively understand and monitor white matter during development and disease. While data from quantitative MRI techniques, such as multiexponential T2 (MET2) ...
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Fan, Qiuyun (2011-04-14)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThis study demonstrated the relationship between brain connectivity and children’s reading abilities. For the behavioral part, the participants received proper reading interventions based on their responsiveness, and the ...
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Xu, Junzhong (2008-11-06)Department: PhysicsDiffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) provides a unique approach for probing the microstructure of biological tissues and is an important tool for both clinical and research applications, such as for the ...
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Sengupta, Saikat Tarun (2010-12-06)Department: Biomedical EngineeringIncreased main field (B0) strength in MRI leads to increased signal levels but also causes higher field inhomogeneity (delta-B0). This thesis presents the implementation and evaluation of ‘Dynamic Shimming’, an advanced ...
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Han, Zhaoying (2011-09-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringDeformation Based Morphometry (DBM) is a widely used method for characterizing anatomical differences across populations. DBM is based on the analysis of the deformation fields generated by non-rigid registration algorithms ...
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Colvin, Daniel Christopher (2009-11-09)Department: PhysicsDiffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a noninvasive imaging technique that can be used to quantify the rate of self-diffusion of water molecules. In biological tissues the mobility of water molecules ...
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Kelm, Nathaniel David (2017-02-09)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDiffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) techniques have demonstrated the ability to non-invasively assess normal and pathological neural tissue. Recently-developed advanced DWI methods have the potential to provide quantitative ...
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Shi, Zhaoyue (2017-11-28)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe identification of patterns of highly correlated low frequency Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) signals in resting states provides a powerful approach to assess brain functional organization. However, functional MRI ...
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Parvathaneni, Prasanna (2019-03-22)Department: Electrical EngineeringNeuroimaging provides an opportunity to gain valuable insight onto the microstructural changes in the brain associated with healthy growth and neurological disorders when conducting longitudinal or cross sectional studies. ...
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High angular resolution diffusion imaging of brain white matter and its application to schizophrenia Hong, Xin (2010-04-10)Department: Biomedical EngineeringBy sampling the self-diffusion of water molecules, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is able to characterize the microstructure of brain white matter. Previous DTI studies in schizophrenia have reported white matter alterations ...
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Schilling, Kurt Gregory (2017-12-12)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe ability of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) fiber tractography to non-invasively map the three-dimensional (3D) network of the human brain has proven to be a valuable neuroimaging tool, improving our ...
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Hong, Xin (2006-12-11)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDiffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) has become the primary imaging modality for non-invasive characterization of the microstructure of living tissues, particularly of human white matter. Despite its success in various research ...
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Arlinghaus, Lori R. (2009-01-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringDiffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that provides information about the organization and structural integrity of tissue. It has become an increasingly popular tool for investigation ...
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Asman, Andrew Joseph (2014-04-28)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe ability to generalize information from examples has been the driving force behind decades of statistical modeling and machine learning research. Building on this fundamental concept, this dissertation addresses the ...
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Wu, Tung-Lin (2018-11-21)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe measurement of functional connectivity within the spine based on detecting resting-state fluctuations in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals potentially provides a new tool for assessing spinal cord ...
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Kussainov, Arman Sainovitch (2008-11-20)Department: PhysicsMULTIPLE QUANTUM COHERENCES EXPERIMENT, SIMULATIONS AND APPLICATIONS ARMAN SAINOVITCH KUSSAINOV Dissertation under the direction of Professor Daniel F. Gochberg This dissertation discuses the intermolecular Multilpe ...
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Janve, Vaibhav Anil (2015-04-17)Department: PhysicsConventional MRI is sensitive to detect brain abnormalities non-invasively through excellent contrast generated by variation in relaxation times and water proton density. However, conventional MRI lacks the specificity and ...