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Longitudinal Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and T2 Relaxometry of the Hippocampus in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
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Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is an important predictor of surgical outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). High-resolution (1 mm isotropic) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the hippocampus in TLE patients has shown patterns of hippocampal subfield diffusion abnormalities which were consistent...
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Advances in Measuring Cortical Microstructure
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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) encompasses a large spectrum of physical, cognitive and behavioral deficits resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure. Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have shown structural and functional brain alterations in children and adolescents with...
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Spring 2022
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) has become an area of intense interest in brain imaging due to its ability to quantify tissue magnetic susceptibility. QSM deploys a gradient echo sequence to produce phase images that are sensitive to susceptibility differences, which can then be...
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Measurement and Correction for the Magnetic Susceptibility Effects of Fat in Venous Oximetry: Application in the Quantification of Muscle Oxygen Consumption (VO2) with Plantar Flexion Exercise
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Measuring venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) provides direct assessment of the upstream muscle or organ's ability to extract and metabolize oxygen. Previously, measurement of venous oxygen saturation has been performed in most studies by intravenous catheterization. This approach has the advantage...
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Measuring Dynamic Changes in Lung Water Density and Volume Following Supine Body Positioning Using Free-Breathing UTE MRI
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An excess of extravascular lung water (EVLW) is known as pulmonary edema, and is associated with dyspnea and poor exercise capacity, heart complications, heart failure, and can be a predictor of poor health outcomes. Recent developments in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequencing and hardware...
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Fall 2016
This thesis discusses the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neuromotor impairments in people with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Ninety percent of people with CP have spastic CP and 60% have bilateral motor impairments. The first two chapters introduce CP and review the mechanisms known to...
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Mechanistic studies on the uptake and intracellular trafficking of DNA complexes in primary cells using lipid-modified cationic polymers as non-viral gene carrier
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This thesis work is aimed at addressing some of the fundamental questions surrounding the intracellular fate of plasmid DNA in clinically-relevant primary cells, when delivered with lipid-modi!ed cationic polymers as gene carriers. We developed an optimized procedure for the transfection of...
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Fall 2015
Fats are a fundamental building block of the human body, but accumulation of unwanted fat in and around tissues is a common pathology related to many disease mechanisms. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers a host of methods to differentiate water and fat signals in images or spectra, for...