Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "magnetic"
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(2005-12-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringA persistent limitation to current and future anti-cancer therapies is an inability to deliver high levels of active agent throughout the entire target tumor tissue volume without adversely impacting normal tissues. ...
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(2009-09-02)Department: Biomedical EngineeringLimitations of commercial RNA extraction kits make them inappropriate for use in a clinical setting. This project develops and evaluates a point-of-care process for simple and rapid extraction of RNA from clinical samples. ...
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Towards the use of monodisperse ferromagnetic particles in low resource malaria diagnostic devices (2016-03-24)Department: Biomedical EngineeringGiven the prevalence of malaria in underdeveloped countries, specialized solutions must be developed for its diagnosis. The most common diagnostic throughout these regions is a lateral flow assay. While generally useful, ...
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(2012-01-26)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis dissertation focuses on the colloidal synthesis, and size-dependent optical & magnetic properties of several nanocrystals, such as EuX (X=O, S, Se, Te), Eu2O2S, and Te nanoparticles and nanorods. Significant Néel ...