Near infrared spectroscopy -- Instruments -- Design and construction.;""Magnetic resonance imaging -- Instruments -- Design and construction."";""Breast -- Cancer -- Imaging."";""Breast -- Magnetic resonance imaging."";""Breast -- Cancer --...
Magnetic susceptibility imaging of magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs) has many potential applications in biomedicine such as contrast enhanced imaging and image guidance for magnetic hyperthermia therapy. This thesis describes three imaging methods...
In image-guided neurosurgery, preoperative magnetic resonance images (pMR) are typically used intraoperatively for neuronavigation. The accuracy of image guidance using preoperative images can be significantly compromised by intraoperative brain...
Elevated sympathetic discharge from the CNS is an underlying pathogenic mechanism in neurogenic hypertension and an exacerbating factor in chronic heart failure (CHF). Current treatment of these diseases focuses on attenuation of the downstream...
Many environmental toxicants found in pesticides, herbicides, and industrial solvents are believed to have deleterious effects on development by disrupting hormone-sensitive processes. Xenopus embryos were exposed to commonly encountered endocrine...
Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) are synthetic derivatives of the gonadal hormone, testosterone. Despite their many untoward side effects, AAS are wildly abused for their ergogenic properties. AAS have numerous effects on many organ systems,...
The overarching goal of this thesis was two-fold. First, to determine if the effects of chronic anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) treatment on anxiety-like behaviors are sex-specific and second to determine how different environmental modulators...
Emergency medical response requires timely and efficient assessment and treatment of casualties. Mass casualty situations, in particular, strain the resources of emergency responders, prompting the need for a well-organized, effective, automated...
Nuclear receptors (Biochemistry) Retinoids -- Receptors. Genetic regulation. Medical Term Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear -- genetics Receptors, Retinoic Acid -- genetics.
Nuclear receptors (NRs) are ligand-regulated transcription factors that control gene expression through interaction with coregulator proteins. Receptor interacting protein 140 (RIP140) is a ligand-inducible, ligand-dependent NR corepressor with...
Magnetoencephalography -- Technique.; Magnetic susceptibility.
The measurement of human brain function is the goal of many noninvasive medical imaging modalities. Two sources of physiological contrast are commonly targeted to achieve this goal. The most direct approach to measuring neuronal activity is with...
In utero exposure to maternal malnutrition is associated with increase offspring susceptibility to cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric disease. Epigenetic mechanisms mediate, at least in part, fetal adaptations to adverse in utero environments...
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) is a major positive regulator of the PI3K signaling pathway that regulates many important cellular functions including growth, proliferation, survival, metabolism, and angiogenesis. The PIK3CA gene, encoding the...
GABA -- Receptors. Anabolic steroids -- Physiological effect. Androgens -- Physiological effect. Prosencephalon. Neurotransmitters -- Effect of drugs on. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are derivatives of testosterone originally designed for therapeutic applications to enhance anabolic potency (protein synthesis and muscle growth) while exerting low androgenic (masculinizing) effects. The...
Three-dimensional imaging in medicine -- Mathematical models. Intraoperative monitoring. Cerebral cortex -- Imaging. Computer vision. Space perception.
Brain deformation models have proven to be a powerful tool in compensating for soft tissue deformation during image-guided neurosurgery. The accuracy of these models can be improved by incorporating intraoperative measurements of brain motion. We...
Brain tissue mechanics are an important biomarker for neurological disorders, yet methods to obtain tissue information yield inconsistent conclusions. These techniques can be invasive or require excised tissue, where tissue function is altered from...
Magnetic resonance imaging. ; Nuclear magnetic resonance.
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides unique contrast reflecting the translational motion of water in its microscopic environment. This imaging modality has been shown to highlight infarcted regions within minutes after an...
Breast -- Magnetic resonance imaging. Breast -- Tomography. Near infrared spectroscopy. Optical tomography. Imaging systems -- Design and construction. Diagnostic imaging -- Mathematical models.
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a technique to produce images of the mechanical properties of tissue, which are indicative of a variety of diseases. Tissue motions measured using MRI are used to solve an inverse problem to recover...