Here is a list of current Ph.D projects of students in the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering. Click on the project titles for more details. Click on the above title for more background information, and also see a recent poster presentation for latest results.
Birth asphyxia is a substantial cause of brain damage in newborn babies.
Studies have shown that cooling the brain by a few degrees during the period between initial hypoxic-ischaemic injury and secondary energy failure can reduce the amount of damage caused. The aim of this project is to develop a non-invasive method of directly and continuously monitoring brain tissue temperature during brain cooling in newborn infants. See a recent poster presentation for latest results. Image reconstruction is an inverse problem that tries to recover the optical parameters given some measured data. The problem, however, is ill-posed.