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Development and evaluation of platform-based SERS substrates for detecting cancer biomarkers at ultra-low concentrations
(2017-04-27)
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) has proved to be a powerful spectroscopic tool since its discovery in 1973. Advances in nanofabrication techniques increasingly allow for the manufacture of complex nanostructured ...
Processing of adaptive optics photoreceptor images and application to the study of healthy and diabetic retinas
(2017-11-17)
The introduction of adaptive optics (AO) into vision science has made it possible for clinicians to study the human retina in vivo with high-resolution images. The study of AO images of the cone photoreceptor mosaic is ...
Polychromatic modelling of the human eye containing a GRIN lens
(2017-12-01)
The ingenuity and complexity of the human eye have attracted the interest of many researchers. In this thesis, we take a closer look at the polychromatic nature of the human eye, with special attention paid to the gradient ...
Remote sensing and in-situ characterisation of atmospheric aerosol pollution
(2017-05-08)
This work focuses on characterising various aspects of clean-background and polluted aerosol, mainly focusing on the North East Atlantic and Europe, using a range of in-situ and remote sensing instrumentation. Prior to ...
Structure and evolution of classical Nova Shells
(2017-09-22)
This thesis focuses on shells ejected during classical nova events. Novae are due to thermonuclear runaway on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary system. The work herein concentrates on nova shells individually to ...
A study on human error, safety culture and risk in radiation oncology
(2017-05-12)
In 2010 the New York Times wrote a series of articles on different radiation procedures including radiotherapy treatments. These articles highlighted a number of incidents that have occurred in the course of radiotherapy ...
Ultrasound imaging in radiotherapy and dosimetric quantification with Monte Carlo techniques
(2017-12-21)
This thesis considered the use of ultrasound-based image guidance systems, employed to account for internal motion of the prostate gland during radiotherapy. A clinical evaluation of the Clarity soft tissue visualisation ...
IMPAIR: Massively parallel regularised Richardson-Lucy deconvolution on heterogeneous hardware
(2017-10-27)
This thesis investigates the comparative performance of multicore CPU and general purpose GPU on a commodity desktop computer. To investigate this, an image deconvolution software package (IMPAIR) was updated from its ...