MuBeta Laboratory Student Profile


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Aidan Jamison

PhD student
MuBeta Laboratory

Address: DBE, Monash University Clayton
Phone: +61 (0)3 990 51927
Fax: +61 (0)3 990 59724
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Qualifications: B.E. (Mech.) Monash 2008

PhD topic: Imaging of flow and shear in vasculature disease models

Details:
Modeling of biological systems, both computationally and experimentally, is becoming more common as technological advances enable more accurate results to be obtained. However the ability to accurately measure blood flow velocities, and thus the shear stresses on vessel walls, in an in vivo environment, introduces several hurdles. This research initially investigates flow within microchannels using particle image velocimetry (PIV), with red blood cells (RBCs) as the tracer particles. It will then progress to investigate exteriorised blood vessels, with these experiments being conducted at the SPring-8 synchrotron in Japan, to enable the flow within the opaque vessels to be determined.

Paper(s) currently in progress:

  1. Fouras, A., Jamison, R.A., Dubsky, S., Irvine, S.C., Siu, K.K.W., Yagi, N. & Hourigan, K. "Towards in-vivo Measurement of vascular wall shear using X-ray Velocimetry", In preparation for submission to Nature Methods.

Publications:

  1. Irvine, S.C., Paganin, D.M., Jamison, R.A., Dubsky, S. & Fouras, A. (2009) Vector tomographic X-ray phase contrast velocimetry utilizing dynamic blood speckle. Submitted to Optics Express.
  2. Dubsky, S., Jamison, R.A., Irvine, S.C., Siu, K.K.W., Hourigan, K. & Fouras, A. (2009) Computed tomographic X-ray velocimetry. Submitted to Applied Physics Letters.
  3. PDF Download Jamison, R.A., Sheard, G.J., Ryan, K. & Fouras, A. (2009) The validity of axisymmetric assumptions when investigating pulsatile biological flows, ANZIAM Journal, 50, C713–C728.
    Also in Proc. 14th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC'08), Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 13-16 July 2008.

Conferences/Seminars:

  1. PDF Download Chua, C.S., Sheard, G.J., Dubsky, S., Higgins, S., Jamison, R.A., Fouras, A. & Hourigan, K. (2009) Particle image velocimetry of non-axisymmetric stenosis models, in Proc. 8th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry — PIV09, Melbourne, Australia, 25–28 August 2009.
  2. PDF Download Jamison, R.A., Fouras, A., Dubsky, S., Irvine, S.C., Siu, K.K.W., & Hourigan, K. (2009) Synchrotron X-ray PIV of blood flow in an optically opaque bifurcation model, in Proc. 8th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry — PIV09, Melbourne, Australia, 25–28 August 2009.
  3. PDF Download Jamison, R.A., Sheard, G.J. & Ryan, K., (2007) Non-axisymmetric flow development in pulsatile blood flow through an aneurysm, In Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (Eds: P. Jacobs, T. McIntyre, M. Cleary, D. Buttsworth, D. Mee, R. Clements, R. Morgan & C. Lemckert; School of Engineering, The University of Queensland, ISBN: 978-1-864998-94-8), Crown Plaza, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 3-7 December 2007, 353-360.

aidan with poster Teaching experience:

  • Tutor: MEC4427 Systems Integrity & Maintenance, Monash University Clayton (S2 2008; S2 2009)
  • Tutor: MEC4404/IND4337/MAE4404 Professional Practice, Monash University Clayton (S1 2009)
  • Tutor: MEC2404 Fluid Mechanics I, Monash University Clayton (S2 2008)

Notable achievements:

  • Winner of a Research Month HDR poster competition prize (2008)
    PDF View Aidan's winning poster (194kb)

Affiliations:

  • Fluids Laboratory for Aeronautical and Industrial Research (FLAIR), Monash University
  • Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute (Baker IDI)