BACKGROUND T1 mapping is widely used today in CMR, however, it underestimates true T1 values and its measurement error is influenced by several acquisition parameters. The purpose of this study was the extraction of accurate T1 data through the utilization of comprehensive, parallel Simulations for QUAntifying RElaxation Magnetic Resonance constants (SQUAREMR) of the MOLLI pulse sequence on a l...

The idea of assigning effective properties to an inhomogeneous medium, for example a composite material or a suspension of particles in fluid, is well known [4, 9, 14], but some methods used to calculate these effective properties have been sources of controversy over the years. In particular, the appearance of non-convergent integrals (or sums) in several calculational schemes has generated ma...

Enhanced network services often involve preferential allocation of resources such as transmission capacity (“bandwidth”) and buffer space to packets belonging to certain flows or traffic classes. Such services are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks if access to those resources is granted based on information that can be forged, such as source and destination addresses and port numbers. Tra...

Analysis and Synthesis of Expressive Guitar Performance Raymond Vincent Migneco Advisor: Youngmoo Edmund Kim, Ph.D. The guitar is one of the most popular and versatile instruments used in Western music cultures. Dating back to the Renaissance era, the guitar can be heard in nearly every genre of Western music, and is arguably the most widely used instrument in present-day rock music. Over the s...