Thesis-cam

For reasons I don't yet understand, I decided to convert my entire dissertation to HTML and post it here. In doing so, I lost most all of the figures and many of the equations. Nonetheless, the document is now available, and if I become exceptionally bored, I may begin adding at least some of the figures back in.

This dissertation was originally prepared entirely within the Linux operating system using Applixware 4.3, Octave, and a *little* Matlab, all running under X11R6 for Linux.

Incidentally, the ENTIRE document (including figures, tables, text, everything) takes up only 1.84 Megabytes of disk space. When tar'd and gzip'd, the entire dissertation occupies a mere 878060 bytes. It'll fit on a single floppy. By way of comparison, a journal article I wrote on this work, using only a fraction of the figures and totalling about 11 typed pages took up over 7 MB using Word for Windoze...

-RM

Opening Pages
(Including Title Pages, Abstract, Dedication, Acknowledgements, and the T.O.C.)
Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2 Cardiac Physiology
Chapter 3 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Chapter 4 Optical Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Chapter 5 Animal Anatomy and Preparation Techniques
Chapter 6 Results
Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusions
References
Appendix A QSS Data Files for SNR Simulations
Appendix B fluo-3 and fluo-3/AM Data Sheets
Appendix C Formulation of TES Ringer's Solution
Appendix D TecMag 31P NMR Pulse Sequence
Appendix E Matlab/Octave .m-file Source Code
Appendix F Additional In Vivo NMR Results
Appendix G Letters of Permission
Vita

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