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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Design and synthesis of paramagnetic contrast agents : applications to magnetic resonance imaging

Hogan, Patrick Gerard January 1988 (has links)
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Development of optical coherence tomography endoscopy for gynaecological and gastrointestinal studies and peritoneal membrane imaging

Alwafi, Reem January 2012 (has links)
In the medical field, the detection and diagnosis of diseases continue to improve. Developments in diagnostic techniques have helped to improve treatment in the early stages and avoid many risks to patients. One relatively new diagnostic technique is optical coherence tomography (OCT), which is used in many medical applications to perform internal microstructure imaging of the human body at high resolution (typically 10 micro metre), at high speed and in real time. OCT is non-invasive and can be used as a contact or non-contact technique to obtain an image. In medicine, there are many applications that involve OCT, such as in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, cardiology and oncology. This work demonstrates the design, development and implementation of a high resolution swept laser OCT system for the imaging and diagnosis of tissues in laboratory and clinical experiments. It reports an investigation to measure the thickness of the peritoneal membrane and the use of optical imaging contrast agents such as gold nanorods. There is also an account of the design of an endoscope-catheter fast scanning OCT system for biomedical studies of the gastrointestinal tract and gynaecological areas. These results were achieved by using a swept tuneable laser source with a very high tuning speed of 16 kHz over a wide range of wavelengths: 1260 nm to 1390 nm. The laser sweeps across 110 nm at a 16 kHz repetition rate. The real axial line speed is limited by the source that is used in the OCT system. The axial resolution of the system is 7 µm and its transverse resolution is 15 µm. The bandwidth of the source is up to DeltaGamma = 110 nm, centred at Gamma0 = 1325 nm, and the coherent length is 7 µm. On the sample arm of the interferometer, the swept laser OCT technique is combined with an optical probe and endoscope in order to develop a novel diagnostic imaging device to visualize tissue in vivo for animal and human experimental trials.

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