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Sampling techniques to characterise the spatial distribution of microstructures

Institution:

University of Liverpool

Dept/School/Faculty:

Institute of Translational Medicine

PhD Supervisor:

Dr M Garcia-Finana

Co-Supervisor:

Dr G Czanner

Application Deadline:

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Availability:

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

PhD Research Project

Sampling techniques have been widely applied to estimate global quantities of biomedical structures, such as volume, surface area, length and number of particles. Applications of these methods can be found in a wide range of disciplines: food, agriculture and forestry, geology, biomedical sciences and neurosciences.

The quantification of local spatial arrangements of biological structures (e.g., nerve fibres, neurons, capillaries) is becoming a crucial component in many bio-medical studies. Information such as the spatial distribution of fibres or how neuron cells are spatially arranged with respect to glial cells in healthy and malignant tissue are examples of the open problems to be tackled.

The aim of this PhD project is to characterise the distribution of cells, neurons and vessels from images of the neocortical brain tissue by using efficient sampling techniques. Brain tissue from both healthy and cancer cases will be analysed and differences in the spatial distribution of cells, neurons and vessels will be investigated.

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