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Optical remote sensing of hypertensive blood vessels

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posted on 2018-03-16, 10:13 authored by Amaratpal Kaur
The aim of this research is to investigate the effects of hypertension on small artery structure by extending the instrumentation which is available for optical analysis of vessels in-vitro. Conventionally, arterial vessels are pressurised in a perfusion myograph and are analysed by video microscopy. A key objective of this research is to enable the examination of vessels by absorption spectroscopy. [Continues.]

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Institute of Standard and Research for Industries, Malaysia. Kerajaan Negeri Selangor, Malaysia.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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© Amaratpal Kaur

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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1997

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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

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  • en

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