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Hippocampal Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Parkinson's Disease and Associations with Non- Motor Symptoms
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder and causes not only well-characterised motor symptoms, but also a host of non-motor symptoms that greatly impact quality of life. PD exists within a larger spectrum of disorders caused by the accumulation of Lewy bodies...
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Spring 2012
A promising approach to the development of an integrated system for magnetic resonance imaging-guided radiotherapy involves the rigid coupling of a medical linear accelerator to a rotating biplanar magnet assembly. Through near real-time volumetric imaging during irradiation, this hybrid system...
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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
DownloadSpring 2018
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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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...
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Fall 2018
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a universally-used tool in clinical neurosurgery. It has revolutionized preoperative diagnosis, surgical planning, intraoperative targeting, and postoperative surveillance. Nevertheless, the idea that early, quantifiable perioperative structural changes of the...
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Fall 2015
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is an emerging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method that provides image contrast based on an important underlying brain tissue property. It is derived from the phase images from a gradient echo sequence, and overcomes the orientation dependency problem...
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Spring 2017
In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), radio frequency (RF) detectors or “coils” are used to excite and receive signal from the nuclear spins. This thesis focuses on the design and development of RF coils and methods to achieve the best possible image quality at high static magnetic field strengths...
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Fall 2020
External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) utilizes high energy radiation (primarily photons or electrons) generated from a linear accelerator (linac) for the treatment of cancer. Current linac technologies lack the ability to continuously monitor the tumour and surround area during treatment. Real-time...
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Spring 2012
The aim of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of low field MR based real time lung tumour tracking, a promising application of proposed linac-MR system. In this work, motion phantoms replicating low field MR contrast parameters for thoracic anatomy of lung cancer patients are imaged with...