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Zahran, Ahmed (author)For a long time, scientists believed that it is not possible to achieve a better microscopic resolution than half the wavelength of light (~ 200 nm). During the last decades, various super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques have been developed, offering high-resolution imaging beyond the diffraction limit. It has been established as...master thesis 2020
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van Engelenburg, Casper (author)Proper diagnostics are essential in the combat against severe diseases which mainly have big impacts in remote areas in poor countries. A focus direction within the NC4I group at DCSC, Delft University of Technology, is the development of new imaging modalities and the design and implementation of smarter algorithms for improved detection of...master thesis 2020
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Deshmukh, Kaustubh (author)Additive Manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, exemplifies the recently emerging processing methodologies that aim to substitute the conventional routes, such as to produce parts with complex geometries and eliminate expensive tooling. AM also allows high degree of freedom and rapid prototyping for functional part optimization. This...master thesis 2020
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Patel, Deep (author)Electron microscopy has enabled us to visualize objects that are not observable with a light microscope. With Transmission electron microscope observation up to subatomic level is possible. Generally, the sample is under vacuum in an electron microscope. But in real life sample is under influence of environmental conditions like liquid, gas,...master thesis 2020
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Kalisvaart, Dylan (author)Super-resolution microscopy methods are able to image samples with improved resolution over the diffraction limit. Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) methods break the diffraction limit by sparsely activating fluorescent emitters. The resulting sparsity in the emission signal can be exploited by estimation algorithms, which enables...master thesis 2020
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Zult, M.J. (author)In 2018, there were more than 200 million reported cases of malaria worldwide, most of which were in Africa. Adequate diagnostics are required to properly treat the disease. According to the WHO, microscopic examination of a blood smear is the Gold Standard of malaria diagnosis. Currently, it is a labor-intensive process requiring trained...master thesis 2020
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Trevisan, E. (author)Microscopic imaging has a resolution that is often far from the diffraction limit due to aberrations induced by the optics or by the sample itself. It is therefore of interest sensing these aberrations either directly or indirectly to improve image quality in post-processing or with adaptive optics. To avoid the use of extra hardware, several...master thesis 2020
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Huijben, Teun (author)<br/>For decades, the resolution of fluorescent light microscopy has been bounded by Abbe’s diffraction limit to λ/2NA. Super-resolution methods, awarded with the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, use tricks to overcome this limit. The general idea is to image blinking fluorophores for a multitude of frames, such that each frame only contains a...master thesis 2020
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Mukherjee, Anish (author)The time taken to generate a super-resolution image and the quality of the final synthetic image depends on the performance of the localization algorithm which is used in the localization microscopy pipeline. The most precise and accurate algorithms are mostly iterative and they take a long time to generate the localization list while the faster...master thesis 2020
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Liu, Xingchen (author)Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is a kind of wide-field super resolution imaging technique which achieves the resolution improvement by exploiting the interference patterns to obtain the information out of the observable region in Fourier space. The resolution improvement in SIM is done by analyzing the obtained image and restored the...master thesis 2020
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Garg, Vishant (author)Al-Li alloys were introduced for the use in aerospace applications due to its many advantages over steel such as its low density, good thermal and electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance of these alloys. The current generation of Al-Li alloys were developed to replace the currently used AA2024 alloy in commercial airframes, military and...master thesis 2020
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Nierijnck, Sven (author)Hexavalent chromium has been the industry standard for corrosion protection for many years. Its unsurpassed active corrosion inhibiting capabilities, its incredible versatility and its economic benefits made it a popular all-rounder. Nowadays the widely known toxic and carcinogenic nature have restricted its use within the European Union. More...master thesis 2020
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Jujjavarapu, Satyajith (author)Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that affects around a quarter-billion people worldwide. Most of the infected people live in tropical regions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where there is limited access to diagnostic and other relevant medical facilities. The current reference standard diagnostic procedure - conventional...master thesis 2020
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Penning, Casper (author)Viscoelasticity is a material property that is relevant in a variety of nanoscale materials and interfaces in medicine and industry. Therefore, a method of mechanical quantification has become exceedingly desired. In this thesis the Atomic force microscope (AFM) is applied to accurately characterize the mechanical behavior of viscoelastic...master thesis 2020
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van Beek, Gregory (author)In budding yeast, a certain concentration of the GTPase Cdc42 is optimal for cell division. This optimal concentration depends on the phenotype and genetic background of the cells. Due to bet hedging, the Cdc42 concentration is different between cells in a population and it is expected that the concentration, measured for many cells, is gamma...master thesis 2019
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James, Matthew (author)Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy (dAFM) is an extremely powerful tool for exploring surface topology and nanoscale manipulation and characterization. A feature of dAFM is the existence of highly nonlinear forces between a cantilever tip and sample. One of these forces that plays a large role in operation of AFM is the van der Waals (vdW) force....master thesis 2019
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Karanth, Pranav (author)Metal anode based batteries, considered the ideal upgrade to Lithium ion batteries in terms of energy density, are currently held back by the non-homogeneous deposition phenomenon that leads to the formation of dendrites that short circuit the cell. The solution to this problem is twofold: while it is important to come up with solutions that...master thesis 2019
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Noom, Jacques (author)Currently used imaging methods in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) including the use of a Lock-In Amplifier or a Phase-Locked Loop, are suboptimal. In this report, the image resolution in AFM is improved by detecting the tip-sample interaction using complete measurements of the input of the cantilever and its measured deflection. Two methods are...master thesis 2019
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Melching, Willem (author)Super Resolution Microscopy is a technique to image objects with resolution higher than the diffraction limit, the fundamental limit to the resolution of a microscope. One of the techniques used for Super Resolution Microscopy is Single Molecule Localization Microscopy (SMLM). For this method, a sample is labeled using fluorophores (fluorescent...master thesis 2019
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Garzon Amortegui, Juan Felipe (author)W/C is a fundamental parameter for concrete mix design, it defines the properties in the fresh and hardened state as well as the durability of the material. Nevertheless, once the concrete has hardened, it is very difficult to estimate the W/C in the original mix design, so far only 2 methodologies has been accepted as a standards. Because of...master thesis 2018