Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "qMT"
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(2020-11-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe spinal cord is a narrow, cylindrical structure responsible for rapidly transmitting electrical signals throughout the nervous system and is the primary sensorimotor pathway for the human body. Therefore, damage to the ...
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(2016-09-22)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMagnetization transfer (MT) imaging has emerged as a viable alternative to conventional structural MRI indices. It has been shown to be remarkably sensitive to changes in myelin associated with pathologies such as multiple ...
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(2015-04-17)Department: PhysicsConventional MRI is sensitive to detect brain abnormalities non-invasively through excellent contrast generated by variation in relaxation times and water proton density. However, conventional MRI lacks the specificity and ...