Thesis
Modelling blood flow and oxygen transport in the human cerebral cortex
- Abstract:
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Dementia, a stepwise deterioration of cognitive function, affects over 700,000 people in the UK, resulting in over 60,000 deaths and a cost of over £1.7 billion each year. It is believed to have a combination of vascular and degenerative origins and to have correlations with localised lesions, or infarctions, in the brains of affected patients. Mini-strokes are one of the causes for this disease as the presence of ischemia is highly related to the risk factors for dysfunction of the neurov...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:6320
- Deposit date:
- 2012-07-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Su, S
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- Some figures have been removed from this version of the thesis for copyright reasons.
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