Student Conference Medical Engineering Science 2015

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;