Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 from wastewater: Factors affecting the representativeness of wastewater-based epidemiology for the monitoring of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

This thesis provides knowledge on factors affecting the representativeness of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The application of WBE to monitor health parameters has become essential due to the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020. WBE is a well-known method to track the SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater and is...

From the seashore to the stratosphere: A step closer to continuous lung monitoring using wearable ultrasound: Lung sliding quantification

<b>Background</b>: The prevention of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) is an important topic in criticalcare. Lung overdistention is a great attributor to VILI. Regional evaluation of the pulmonary mechanicsis a relatively new method and is currently being studied using electrical impedance tomography (EIT)and computed tomography (CT)....