Student Conference Medical Engineering Science 2015 : Proceedings

Table of Contents:

1. Biomedical Optics:

Flow velocity measurements using Doppler optical coherence tomography;
Characterization of a micro machined deformable membrane mirror using optical coherence tomography;
Laser Ray Tracing Setup for Measuring the Refractive Index Changes in Bovine Lenses;
Optically Monitored Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty;
Development of standardized tissue phantoms for evaluation of Holographic Photoacoustic Tomography;
Investigation of the influence of pulse variations on photoacoustic response and damage thresholds for laser induced bubble formation at the fundus of the eye;
Development of a new, non-invasive, laser-assisted experimental model for Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy;
FT-IR investigation of the nonlinear optical crystal CLBO;

2. Biochemical Physics:

LED-based Illumination Set-up for In Vitro Photodynamic Therapy;
Construction and implementation of a simple stopped-flow apparatus for the investigation of rapid kinetics using confocal fluorescence microscopy;
Fluorescence Properties and Cytotoxicity of Nanoparticle-based Ratiometric Fluorescent Thermometer on RPE Cells;
Comparative Study of the Gamma-Spectrometers Berthold LB2040’s and Berthold LB2045’s Performance based on the Half-life Determination of Radioactive Isotope Ba-137m;
Re-setup of a Nitrogen Cooled Ge-Detector in Combination with a Canberra Multi Channel Analyzer for Determination of Terrestrial Radiation Sources;

3. Biomedical Engineering:

Dispension of a bead suspension into small vessels;
Simulation of torque acting on the joint of an exoskeleton for stroke rehabilitation;
Determination of Measurement Characteristics of a Sensor for Blood Leakage in Hemodialysis;
Checking the usability of a valve system to control a pressure controlled valve from a breathing machine;

4. Safety and Quality:

Investigation of the APICA ASCTM access and closure device for the delivery of mitral valve therapies;
Technical Reequipment and Restructuring of Endoscopic Department at Demmin Hospital;
Developing a procedure to test the compatibility of flexible endoscopes with an Endo-Thermo-Disinfector (ETD);
Development of a level indicator for process chemicals of an automated endoscopy reprocessor;
Developing a Type Test for the Contamination-Monitor with Gamma Detectors with Focus on Detector Homogeneity – For Four Different Nuclides;
Development of a luminous field measurement station and comparison of a consumer LED headlight and a HEINE® LED LoupeLight;
Temperature dependencies in surgical lights – investigation and compensation concept;
Implementation of Risk Management Report for Medical Ceiling Supply Units in IBM Rational DOORS®;
Analysis of Coordinate Measuring Machines in Medicine especially in the Osteosurgery and Dentalsurgery;

5. Medical Imaging:

Novel Method to Measure Migration of Percutaneous Nerve Evaluation Leads;
The measurement of the peak kilovoltage across microfocus X-ray tubes by using K-shell radiation and K-shell absorption;
Analyzing the Impact of Different Path Termination Conditions in a Probabilistic Fiber Tracking Algorithm;
Measurement and Analysis of the respiration-driven Motion of the Pulmonary Artery;
Respiratory Surface Motion Measurement by Microsoft Kinect: Implementation and Evaluation of a clinical Setup;

6. Signal Processing:

Single-trial variability of non-invasively recorded high-frequency somatosensory evoked potentials;
Evaluation of a Skin-to-Electrode Impedance Measuring System;
Quantitative evaluation of online signal processing for fMRI-based neurofeedback;
Different k-Space Sampling Sequences for MR Image Reconstruction with Blind Sparse Motion Estimation;
Exploiting Sparse Representations of the Plenacoustic Function for Compressive Sensing;
Robust Pattern Recognition of Hand Movement with Multi-Channel Surface EMG Using Random Forest;
Noise Cancellation using Room Equalization Filters;
Receive Chain Noise Matching For Magnetic Particle Imaging;

7. Image Processing:

Experimental Evaluation of Different Weighting Schemes in Magnetic Particle Imaging Reconstruction;
Comparison and Performance Evaluation of Indoor Localization Algorithms based on an Error Mode for an Optical System;
A machine learning approach for planning valve-sparing aortic root reconstruction;
Edge-preserving ring artifact correction for CT imaging;
Fully Automated Camera Calibration for X-ray Inspection and Computed Tomography Systems;
Analysis of an Automatically Computed Abstraction Parameter in Sketch-based Image Retrieval Using Angular-Radial Partitioning;
Performance of Förstner- and Rohr operators based on structure tensors versus Hessians;
Dimensionality reduction of multidimensional image descriptors for medical image registration;
An Efficient Implementation of an Affine Point-based Registration using the Expectation Maximization-ICP in C++;
Enabling on-Demand Features for Decision Forests – An Approach to Lesion Segmentation in MR-Volumes;
Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation – Setup of a Challenge;