Postgraduate Studies in Advanced Medical Imaging

Examp les of th esis titles from previous years

Imaging in cardiology

Clinical Validation of a new Methodology for the Assessment of 3D Myocardial Strain from
Volumetric Ultrasound
Morphological and Functional Adaptation of the Maternal Heart during Pregnancy
A Different Look at Asymmetric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy using Cardiovascular Magnetic
Resonance
Does 2D Image Reconstruction from 3D Full Volume Echocardiography Improve the Assessment
of Left Ventricular Morphology and Function?

Imaging in neurology and neurosciences

Detection of dysplastic lesions in epilepsy patients based on gray matter segmentation maps: a
pilot study
Magnetization Transfer Ratio in Automatically Segmented Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis
Evaluation of Voxel-based Morphometry in the Automatic Detection of Dysplastic Lesions

Imaging in oncology

Pre-treatment Dynamic Contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Prediction of

Progression Free Survival in Conventional Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization or
Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization with Drug-eluting Beads in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
The value of diffusion-weighted imaging in Ewings sarcoma and osteosarcoma in children and
young adults: preliminary results
Direct tissue fluorescence imaging in relation to tissue, serum and salivary protoporphyrin for
detection of oral precancerous and cancerous lesions.

Methodological Research

Motion Correction for MicroPET Brain Imaging

Surface to Image Registration for Dental Surgery Planning
Development of a rat computational phantom using boundary representation method for Monte
Carlo simulation in radiological imaging
Automated Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions visible on FLAIR MRI by an Adaptive
Mixtures Method and a Gibbs Classification Model.

Oral Imaging

Peri-implant bone tissue assessment during osseointegration by comparing the outcome of 6

radiographic analyses to the histological standard
Accuracy assessment of three-dimensional reconstructions of the occlusal tooth surfaces from
Cone Beam Computed Tomography scans
Evidence for X-ray Exposure Parameter Selection in CT of the Brain and Petrous Bone from
Comparative Measurements on Deceased Bodies