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Ramsey, Caitlin (author)Neonates are among the most fragile in the human population. Even more so when born prematurely. Their loss of development time in the womb disrupts their growth, and the neonatal intensive care unit environment can add multiple stresses that hinder their development. This can partly be attributed to the intrusive environment of a neonatal...master thesis 2020
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Vermond, Lukas (author)In an effort to make DNA sequencing more accessible and affordable, Oxford Nanopore Technologies developed the MinION: A portable cellphone sized DNA sequencing device. Translating the information from this device to a nucleotide sequence is called basecalling, and is done with the aid of artificial neural networks. In this thesis, we accelerate...master thesis 2020
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Chen, Shengjie (author)Biosensing has been developed rapidly for a number of biomedical applications, including neural monitoring, protein detection, bacteria detection and blood glucose monitoring. Among the branches of bio-sensing, capacitive sensing is a promising technique and utilized widely, since it is rapid, simple, label free and inexpensive. Compared with...master thesis 2020
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Agarwal, Gayatri (author)MRI machine has evolved tremendously over the years from its inception in order to render high-quality 3D images, best among its companion imaging systems. Of the whole system, RF receiver is the most crucial for its noise performance, which is expected to provide high SNR at all operating conditions. At Philips, MRI’s RF receiver is based on...master thesis 2020
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Skrekas, Vassilis (author)The field of active implantable medical devices (IMDs) has made huge steps forward in the last years. IMDs are used today for the treatment of previously untreatable conditions as well as the continuous monitoring of the health of patients. The field, where active IMDs have been the most successful, is the field of neurological conditions, on...master thesis 2020
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Zufiria Gerbolés, Pedro (author)Neurostimulation is a common medical treatment modality used to treat neurological disorders. It applies electrical pulses to revert and prevent undesired neural behavior or to create desired neural behavior. The required specificity of said stimulation treatments is oftentimes achieved by implanting the neurostimulator close to the target area....master thesis 2020
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Beintema, Tim (author)In the Netherlands the preterm birth rate is around 7%. The problematic part is that these preterm infants make up for 72% of all deaths during or shortly after birth. To provide a way to aid these infants the following question was stated by the doctor: "turn on a light in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit when the preterm infant’s development...master thesis 2019
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Lekkas, Konstantinos (author)Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a noninvasive technique, allowing for the reversible modulation of activity in particular brain regions. TDCS has obtained much scientific interest and it promises many potential benefits to the patients.<br/><br/>However, tDCS that is performed today is almost the same with the method that was...master thesis 2019
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Emmer, Koen (author)A major cause for voiding dysfunction is the inability to relax the urethral sphincter. KiloHertz Frequency Alternating Current (KHFAC) stimulation can block signals that are travelling through the body; applying this type of stimulation at the pudendal nerve could inhibit the pulses that lead to contraction of the urethral sphincter, and...master thesis 2019
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Baquer Gómez, Gerard (author)"The use of high-frequency stimulation for conduction block of the pudendal nerve has potentially high benefits for patients suffering from non-neurogenic urinary retention. Special care has to be put in the design of stimulation parameters to ensure safe operation and prevent electrode and tissue damage. While high-frequency conduction block...master thesis 2018
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Sekeri, Makrina (author)Malignant Melanoma (MM) is the most aggressive type of skin-cancer. Current diagnostic tools for the detection of malignancies of the skin (MM cancer) include histological, optical, ultrasound, and impedance-based techniques. The inadequacies of the first three practices are overwhelmed by the Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) method. EIS...master thesis 2018
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Wu, Lichao (author)Many fields need high performance time measurements, including particle detection, time-resolved imaging, transducer array channel multiplexing and other time of-flight systems. These measurements are often performed by means of time-to-digital converters(TDCs), that for these applications, require high resolution, accuracy, and throughput. This...master thesis 2017
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Geelen, Jinne (author)Close collaboration between the Bioelectronics department at Delft University of Technology and the Neuroscience department at the Erasmus Medical Centre has resulted in a successful tethered design for a real-time epileptic seizure detection and suppression method for mice. The goal of the Neuromate project is to develop this method into a...master thesis 2017
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Gonzales Huamán, E.E. (author)It is well-known that GPS is a widely used technology for localization in outdoors environments. Nonetheless, such standard fails to provide a practical and accurate solution for localization and ranging applications within indoor environments due to the need of satellites and meter-level accuracy, which is poor for indoor environments. It is in...master thesis 2017
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Yu, H. (author)The electronization of automobiles is considered to be a revolution in automotive technology development progress. System level integrated circuits are needed to simplify the automotive electronics design and increase the reliability of automobiles. In this thesis, a prototype of a linear voltage regulator is designed for system level...master thesis 2017
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Nassirinia, F. (author)Animal studies are commonly used to test the feasibility and effectiveness of promising novel neu- roscience research ideas. One such new technique is optogenetic stimulation, a state-of-the-art brain stimulation technique. In optogenetics, genetic techniques are used to create light-sensitive proteins within the neuron membrane, thus allowing...master thesis 2016
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Rout, S. (author)With the bandwidth of the ECG signal extending from sub-Hz to 200 Hz, a major challenge for an ECG readout system lies in implementing the high-pass (HP) cut-off frequency as this translates into the realization of large time constants on-chip.Although techniques such as those based on the use of pseudo-resistors to obtain very large time...master thesis 2016
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Kostałkowski, M.K. (author)Every year number of prematurely born infants grows. Most underdeveloped organ after birth is brain. Therefore its monitoring is very important, especially as it can provide indications about health state in a future, both short and long term. Non invasive method of brain monitoring is EEG recording. However tedious process of system set up and...master thesis 2016