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Multimodal gold nanoprobes for optical imaging and therapy of cancer
(2016-05-20)
In the recent past, there has been an accelerated development in medical modalities for the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Tissue conservation of neighbouring healthy tissue and development of a minimally/non-invasive ...
Development and applications of optical imaging techniques for microcirculation and cardiovascular imaging
(2016-08-12)
The work presented in this thesis describes the development and applications of optical imaging techniques, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and photoacoustic (PA) imaging, for the purpose of diagnosing and treating ...
Modelling of Inhalation Exposures to Pharmaceutical Agents
(2011-09-09)
Assessment of worker's exposure is becoming increasingly critical in the pharmaceutical industry as drugs of higher potency are being manufactured. Also the batch nature of operations often makes it difficult to obtain ...
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 ...
4D light field reconstruction and scene depth estimation from plenoptic camera raw images
(2016-05-16)
Microlens-array-based light-field cameras (also known as plenoptic cameras), which are capable of recording both angular and spatial information of light, are already commercially available as consumer commodities. Due to ...
Pulsed laser material interaction with thin indium tin oxide films
(2015-09-30)
The interaction of short and ultrashort laser pulses with very thin films is currently an important area of research for laser material interactions. The interaction between the laser pulse and the thin transparent conductive ...
Polarisation of synchrotron radiation from isolated neutron stars
(2016-03-10)
Pulsars are enigmatic neutron stars which have defied efforts to understand them for over 40 years. POREC (Pulsar Optical Reverse Engineering Code) was first written to constrain pulsar emission theories through constraining ...
Towards low cost multiple reference optical coherence tomography for in vivo and NDT applications
(2016-01-21)
Developing a cost-effective, compact, and easy-to-use optical coherence tomography
(OCT) platform based on smartphones for personal care and point-of-care (POC) diagnostics
can enable rapid and accurate diagnosis with ...
Aerosols and the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique
(2018-02-22)
The ability to extract energetic γ-rays from the overwhelming high energy cosmic ray back- ground has opened up a new window of observation on the non-thermal universe. By utilis- ing an atmospheric technique VERITAS, an ...
Star formation in extreme environments
(2015-12-22)
The study of star formation bridges many vastly disparate scales. From the small, nearby, quiescent cores of low mass star formation, to the highly turbulent conditions in which the most massive stars form, to the extreme ...