Biomedical engineering

The Computational Biomechanics for Medicine titles provide an opportunity for specialists in computational biomechanics to present their latest methodologies and advancements.

This work represents an inventive attempt to apply recent advances in nanotechnology to identify and characterise novel polymer systems for drug delivery through the skin.

This thesis reports on a novel system forextracellular recordings of the activity of excitable cells, which relies on anorganic, charge-modulated field-effect transistor (FET) called OCMFET.

This handbook focuses on the entire development process of biomedical microsystems that promote special interactions with cells.

This book discusses the design of neural stimulator systems which are used for the treatment of a wide variety of brain disorders such as Parkinson's, depression and tinnitus.

This book collates past and current research on one of the most promising emerging modalities for breast cancer detection.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.

This book offers an overview of the main questions arising when biomedical decision-making intersects ethical decision-making.

The state of the art in Biopharmaceutics, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics Modeling is presented in this new second edition book.

This book equips students with a thorough understanding of various types of sensors and biosensors that can be used for chemical, biological, and biomedical applications, including but not limited to temperature sensors, strain sensor, light sensors, spectrophotometric sensors, pulse oximeter, optical fiber probes, fluorescence sensors, pH sensor, ion-selective electrodes, piezoelectric sensors, glucose sensors, DNA and immunosensors, lab-on-a-chip biosensors, paper-based lab-on-a-chip biosensors, and microcontroller-based sensors.

This book describes a new family of bio-polymergels made from cytoskeletal proteins - actin, microtubule, andtropomyosin.

This book summarizes various approaches for theautomatic detection of health threats to older patients at home living alone.

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of microfluidic approaches and applications in pharmatechnology.

In this book, leading authors in the field discuss developments of Ambient Assisted Living.

This book is a timely report on current neurotechnology research.

This book provides an introduction to qualitative and quantitative aspects of human physiology.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014.

This book tackles the problem of overshoot and undershoot in blood glucose levels caused by delay in the effects of carbohydrate consumption and insulin administration.

This book covers the development of biotechnology based on carbon nanostructures, with a focus on nanotubes, addressing also fullerenes and amorphous carbons.

How and why to write a movement?

This book presents a comprehensive framework for model-based electrical stimulation (ES) controller design, covering the whole process needed to develop a system for helping people with physical impairments perform functional upper limb tasks such as eating, grasping and manipulating objects.

Providing many unique MATLAB codes and functions throughout, this book covers the basics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), leading to an in-depth understanding of the concepts and tools required for analysis and interpretation of Phase Contrast MR Angiography (PC-MRA).

This book is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary resource for the latest information on implantable medical devices, and is intended for graduate students studying electrical engineering, electronic instrumentation, and biomedical engineering.

This textbook summarizes the basic knowledge of atomic, nuclear, and radiation physics that professionals working in medical physics and biomedical engineering need for efficient and safe use of ionizing radiation in medicine.

Synthetic biology is a dynamic, young, ambitious, attractive, and heterogeneous scientific discipline.

This book reports on the latest technological and clinical advances in the field of neurorehabilitation.

Food products are complex in nature which makes their analysis difficult.

This book surveys the most recent advances in physics-inspired cell movement models.

This book comprehensively addresses the physics and engineering aspects of human physiology by using and building on first-year college physics and mathematics.

Medical and Service Robotics integrate the most recent achievements in mechanics, mechatronics, computer science, haptic and teleoperation devices together with adaptive control algorithms.

This book provides a cohesive overview of the current technological advances in computational radiology, and their applications in orthopaedic interventions.

This book describes for researchers in the fields of compiler technology, design and test, and electronic design automation the new area of digital microfluidic biochips (DMBs), and thus offers a new application area for their methods.

Innovation in medicine and healthcare is an interdisciplinary research area, which combines the advanced technologies and problem solving skills with medical and biological science.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to carbon nanomaterials, from synthesis and functionalization to applications in advanced biomedical devices and systems.

This book is a self-contained, tutorial-based introduction to quantum information theory and quantum biology.

The basic mathematics of computerized tomography, the CT scan, are aptly presented for an audience of undergraduates in mathematics and engineering.

Describing several new biometric technologies, such as high-resolution fingerprint, finger-knuckle-print, multi-spectral backhand, 3D fingerprint, tongueprint, 3D ear, and multi-spectral iris recognition technologies, this book analyzes a number of efficient feature extraction, matching and fusion algorithms and how potential systems have been developed.

This unique text introduces students and researchers to the world of misfolded proteins, toxic oligomers, and amyloid assemblages, and the diseases of the brain that result.

This book describes new circuits and systems for implantable biomedical applications and explains the design of a batteryless, remotely-powered implantable micro-system, designed for long-term patient monitoring.

This book presents the theory of soft matter to students at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

This book provides readers with an integrative overview of the latest research and developments in the broad field of biomedical engineering.

This book develops and analyses computational wear simulations of the total ankle replacement for the stance phase of gait cycle.

This comprehensive volume explores functions, pathologies, and applications of stem cells in relation to the niches in which they develop.

5thInternational Symposium on the Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the 2015SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This is the first text that deals specifically with TMJ TJR.

This volume presents the current state of laser-assisted bioprinting, a cutting edge tissue engineering technology.

Computational modeling allows to reduce, refine and replace animal experimentation as well as to translate findings obtained in these experiments to the human background.

This book describes a new, "e;e-Health"e; approach to stroke rehabilitation.

This Brief focuses on the synthesis, functionalization techniques, optical properties and biomedical application of gold nanostars (GNS).

This unique book presents a historical and philatelic survey of Earth exploration from space.