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Filtering by: Contributor Billiar, Kristen L. Collections Masters Theses Resource type Thesis

1. Streamlining Tissue Engineering Workflows: Comparing Tissue Formation Between Freshly Cultured and Directly Thawed Cells

Keyword:: Cells, Rings, Viability, Freshly Thawed, Tissue model, and Tissue Engineering
Creator:: Santos-Heiman, Timothy
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

2. Development of digital holographic vibrometry methods for determination of mechanical properties of bioengineered tissues

Keyword:: High-resolution Optical Metrology, Holographic Vibrometry, Machine Learning, Bioengineered Tissues, and Computational Modeling
Creator:: Hiscox, Colin
Advisor:: Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-04-27
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Mechanical Engineering

3. A Cell Spheroid Model of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease: The Role of Apoptosis and Oxidative Stress

Creator:: Coutts, Colin
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-21
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

4. Opto-mechanical Characterization Methods to Understand Physical and Mechanical Properties of Bioengineered Tissue

Keyword:: Noninvasive Optical Metrology, Characterization of Tissues, Big Data, Bioengineered Tissues, and Force-Displacements Measurements
Creator:: Castro Carrion, Westly
Advisor:: Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-12-14
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Mechanical Engineering

5. Progress Towards a Higher Throughput Uniaxial Stretch Platform with Tunable Stiffness for Mechanobiology Experiments

Creator:: Sutter, Leo B.
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-08-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

6. Cell sensing on strain-stiffening substrates is not fully explained by the nonlinear mechanical property

Keyword:: effective stiffness, Non-linear , extracellular matrix, Fibroblasts, mechanosensing, linear, strain-stiffening, and cell spreading
Creator:: Rudnicki, Mathilda Sophia
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2012-04-17
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

7. Centritubing: Using Centrifugal Force to Create Self-Assembled Tubular Tissue Constructs

Keyword:: Tissue Engineering, Self-Assembly, centrifugal force, TEBV, and tubular construct
Creator:: Jones, Craig
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2013-01-09
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

8. Evaluation of Canine Fracture Fixation Bone Plates

Keyword:: fixation, evaluation, fracture, Mechanical, bone, and plate
Creator:: Tacvorian, Edward
Advisor:: Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2012-11-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

9. Designing Biomaterial Surfaces to Enhance Adhesion at the Skin-Implant Interface

Keyword:: keratinocytes, neuroprosthetics, percutaneous seal, Cell adhesion, and percutaneous implant
Creator:: Ting, Cara M
Advisor:: Pins, George D
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2011-05-03
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

10. Comparison of Alternative Rigid Sternal Fixation Techniques

Keyword:: Osteoporosis, malunion, Sternum, and Rigid Fixation
Creator:: Dieselman, John Conrad
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2012-01-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering