Student Projects

Potential Projects for MSc students:

1. Mechanical characterization of the atherosclerotic arterial wall
   – Keywords: Biaxial tensile testing, optical imaging, tissue characterization
2. Local stiffness characterization of diseased arteries
   – Keywords: Continuum mechanics, analytical modeling, virtual field method
3. Predicting carotid artery flow in patients with dementia and recent stroke
   – Keywords: MRI flow imaging, machine learning, computational fluid dynamics
4. Characterization of collagen architecture from polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (psOCT)
   – Keywords: psOCT, machine learning, MATLAB