Biophysics

Cartilage injuries in children and adolescents are increasingly observed, with roughly 20% of knee injuries in adolescents requiring surgery.

The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is a site of intense morbidity for millions of people, especially young, pre-menopausal women.

The knee meniscus was once thought to be a vestigial tissue, but is now known to be instrumental in imparting stability, shock absorption, load transmission, and stress distribution within the knee joint.

Disorders related to the intervertebral disc (IVD) are common causes of morbidity and of severe life quality deterioration.

A bulky document on cement science and manufacturing technology is difficult for a college junior to easily understand.

This book offers new engineers and engineering students appropriate and effective strategies to find data, statistics, and research to support decision making.

Recently, immunomodulatory nanomaterials have gained immense attention due to their involvement in the modulation of the body's immune response to cancer therapy.

Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary field that is rapidly evolving and expanding.

The presence of oriented features in images often conveys important information about the scene or the objects contained; the analysis of oriented patterns is an important task in the general framework of image understanding.

Increasingly, biomedical scientists and engineers are involved in projects, design, or research and development that involve humans or animals.

Transport processes represent important life-sustaining elements in all humans.

There are five different types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, vestibular ocular eye movements, optokinetic eye movements, and vergence eye movements.

Evaluating biomedical technology poses a significant challenge in light of the complexity and rate of introduction in today's healthcare delivery system.

In the past 50 years there has been an explosion of interest in the development of technologies whose end goal is to connect the human brain and/or nervous system directly to computers.

Technology is essential to the delivery of health care but it is still only a tool that needs to be deployed wisely to ensure beneficial outcomes at reasonable costs.

Intended as an introduction to the field of biomedical engineering, this book covers the topics of biomechanics (Part I) and bioelectricity (Part II).

The auscultation method is an important diagnostic indicator for hemodynamic anomalies.

Intended as an introduction to the field of biomedical engineering, this book covers the topics of biomechanics (Part I) and bioelectricity (Part II).

Segmentation and landmarking of computed tomographic (CT) images of pediatric patients are important and useful in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), treatment planning, and objective analysis of normal as well as pathological regions.

This textbook is intended for undergraduate students (juniors or seniors) in Biomedical Engineering, with the main goal of helping these students learn about classical control theory and its application in physiological systems.

The book presents recent advances in signal processing techniques for modeling, analysis, and understanding of the heart's electrical activity during atrial fibrillation.

The book presents recent advances in signal processing techniques for modeling, analysis, and understanding of the heart's electrical activity during atrial fibrillation.

Among medical imaging modalities, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) stands out for its excellent soft-tissue contrast, anatomical detail, and high sensitivity for disease detection.

The present book illustrates the theoretical aspects of several methodologies related to the possibility of i) enhancing the poor spatial information of the electroencephalographic (EEG) activity on the scalp and giving a measure of the electrical activity on the cortical surface.

There are five different types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, vestibular ocular eye movements, optokinetic eye movements, and vergence eye movements.

This book provides an introduction to the principles of several of the more widely used methods in medical imaging.

Lung sounds auscultation is often the first noninvasive resource for detection and discrimination of respiratory pathologies available to the physician through the use of the stethoscope.

Heredity performs literal communication of immensely long genomes through immensely long time intervals.

Quantitative Neurophysiology is supplementary text for a junior or senior level course in neuroengineering.

This book is concerned with the study of continuum mechanics applied to biological systems, i.

A medical device is an apparatus that uses engineering and scientific principles to interface to physiology and diagnose or treat a disease.

Take one elephant and one man to the top of a tower and simultaneously drop.

The field of brain imaging is developing at a rapid pace and has greatly advanced the areas of cognitive and clinical neuroscience.

In the last ten years many different brain imaging devices have conveyed a lot of information about the brain functioning in different experimental conditions.

Neural interfaces are one of the most exciting emerging technologies to impact bioengineering and neuroscience because they enable an alternate communication channel linking directly the nervous system with man-made devices.

This book aims to provide vital information about the growing field of bionanotechnology for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as working professionals in various fields.

Breath sounds have long been important indicators of respiratory health and disease.

This short book provides basic information about bioinstrumentation and electric circuit theory.

This is the third in a series of short books on probability theory and random processes for biomedical engineers.

This is the second in a series of three short books on probability theory and random processes for biomedical engineers.

Tremor represents one of the most common movement disorders worldwide.

There are many books written about statistics, some brief, some detailed, some humorous, some colorful, and some quite dry.

The biomedical engineering senior capstone design course is probably the most important course taken by undergraduate biomedical engineering students.

The senses of human hearing and sight are often taken for granted by many individuals until they are lost or adversely affected.

The replacement or augmentation of failing human organs with artificial devices and systems has been an important element in health care for several decades.

This lecture book is intended to be an accessible and comprehensive introduction to random signal processing with an emphasis on the real-world applications of biosignals.

E-health is closely related with networks and telecommunications when dealing with applications of collecting or transferring medical data from distant locations for performing remote medical collaborations and diagnosis.

Dielectrophoresis microfluidic chips have been widely used in various biological applications due to their advantages of convenient operation, high throughput, and low cost.

This book has a two-fold purpose:(1) An introduction to the computer-based modeling of influenza, a continuing major worldwide communicable disease.

The identification and interpretation of the signs of breast cancer in mammographic images from screening programs can be very difficult due to the subtle and diversified appearance of breast disease.