Biomedical engineering

Biomechanics as a scientific activity is not new.

The need for better implant materials was a stimulus for the increa- sing knowledge of Biomaterial Scientists.

There is a tendency of an increasing number of signals and derived variables to be incorporated in the monitoring of patients during anesthesia and in intensive care units.

In the 1960s a firm rationale was developed for using raised temperatures to treat malignant disease and there has been a continuous expansion of the field ever since.

The complete volume 12 of Medical Progress through Technology is devoted to the work of colleagues in Japan.

By definition Biomechanics is the application of engineering methods to study the mechanical aspects of living beings.

This report, Anticipating and Assessing Health Care Technology, is the first report from the STG Commission on Future Health Care Technology.

As noted in the Foreword, this report is the second of several volumes resulting from this study of future health care technology.

This book focuses on the most recent advances in the application of visualization and simulation methods to understand the flow behavior of complex fluids used in biomedical engineering and other related fields.

This book describes the state of the art on computational modeling and fabrication in Tissue Engineering.

Growth in the pharmaceutical market has slowed down - almost to a standstill.

Research into gastrointestinal motility has received renewed interest in part due to recent advances in the techniques for measuring the structure and function of gastrointestinal cells, tissue and organs.

The application of methodological approaches and mathematical formalisms proper to Physics and Engineering to investigate and describe biological processes and design biological structures has led to the development of many disciplines in the context of computational biology and biotechnology.

Sleep medicine has been developing for more than 40 years.

The computational modelling of deformations has been actively studied for the last thirty years.

Since the early 20th century, medical imaging has been dominated by monochrome imaging modalities such as x-ray, computed tomography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging.

Nanophotonics has emerged rapidly into technological mainstream with the advent and maturity of nanotechnology available in photonics and enabled many new exciting applications in the area of biomedical science and engineering that were unimagined even a few years ago with conventional photonic engineering techniques.

This book addresses patient-specific modeling.

Traditional research methodologies in the human respiratory system have always been challenging due to their invasive nature.

IT Convergence and Services is proceedings of the 3rd FTRA International Conference on Information Technology Convergence and Services (ITCS-11) and the FTRA International Conference on Intelligent Robotics, Automations, telecommunication facilities, and applications (IRoA-11).

Recent technological breakthrough in the field of Terahertz radiation has triggered new applications in biology and biomedicine.

This book presents novel and advanced technologies for medical sciences in order to solidify knowledge in the related fields and define their key stakeholders.

This book collects the state-of-art and new trends in image analysis and biomechanics.

As a new interdisciplinary research area, "e;image-based geometric modeling and mesh generation"e; integrates image processing, geometric modeling and mesh generation with finite element method (FEM) to solve problems in computational biomedicine, materials sciences and engineering.

Biomateriomics is the holistic study of biological material systems.

This book addresses the possibilities and challenges in mimicking biological membranes and creating membrane-based sensor and separation devices.

This book presents a collection of chapters describing the state of the art on computational modelling and fabrication in tissue engineering.

This book offers an overview of state-of-the-art in non amplified DNA detection methods and provides chemists, biochemists, biotechnologists and material scientists with an introduction to these methods.

This volume consists of the state-of-the-art reports on new developments in micromechanics and the modeling of nanoscale effects, and is a companion book to the recent Kluwer volume on nanomechanics and mul- scale modeling (it is entitled Trends in Nanoscale Mechanics).

The sixteen chapters included in this book were written by invited experts of international recognition and address important issues in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision, including: Object Recognition, Object Detection, Object Tracking, Pose Estimation, Facial Expression Recognition, Image Retrieval, Data Mining, Automatic Video Understanding and Management, Edges Detection, Image Segmentation, Modelling and Simulation, Medical thermography, Database Systems, Synthetic Aperture Radar and Satellite Imagery.

A CMOS Self-Powered Front-End Architecture for Subcutaneous Event-Detector Devices presents the conception and prototype realization of a Self-Powered architecture for subcutaneous detector devices.

Future robots are expected to work closely and interact safely with real-world objects and humans alike.

This book contains extended versions of papers presented at the international Conference VIPIMAGE 2009 - ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image, that was held at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, from 14th to 16th of October 2009.

This book focuses on the mechanobiological principles in tissue engineering with a particular emphasis on the multiscale aspects of the translation of mechanical forces from bioreactors down to the cellular level.

This book introduces the recent progress that has resulted from utilizing the idea of "e;element-block polymers"e;.

Biomateriomics is the holistic study of biological material systems.

This book summarizes the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on "e;Nanoengineered Systems for Regenerative Medicine"e; that was organized under the auspices of the NATO Security through Science Program.

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The authors of this book analyze the influence of specific everyday life situations and contexts on the emotional state of people and the ways in which this can impact measurements of user experience.

In the course of the years the volumes in the Acoustical Imaging Series have developed to become well-known and appreciated reference works.

Biosensors are analytical devices in which speci?

Nanorobots represent a nanoscale device where proteins such as DNA, carbon nanotubes could act as motors, mechanical joints, transmission elements, or sensors.

This book reports the majority of lectures given during the NATO Advanced Study Institute ASI-982996, which was held at the European Scientific Institute of Archamps (ESI, Archamps - France) from November 15 to November 27, 2007.

Availability of advanced computational technology has fundamentally altered the investigative paradigm in the field of biomechanics.

The aim of this book is to present pedestrian injuries from a biomechanical perspective.

The aim of volume 7 of Human Cell Culture is to provide clear and precise methods for growing primary cultures of adult stem cells from various human tissues and describe culture conditions in which these adult stem cells differentiate along their respective lineages.