Biomedical engineering

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

This volume presents the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam which was held from June 16-18, 2014 in Ho Chi Minh City.

This book contains invited lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XIX Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2013.

Exploring the synthesis, characterization, surface manipulation, electron transfer and biological activity of silver nanoparticles, this book examines the fundamentals of the properties and synthesis of these particles.

During the last years computational methods lead to new approaches that can be applied within medical practice.

This book offers readers a comprehensive biomaterials-based approach to achieving clinically successful, functionally integrated vasculogenesis and myogenesis in the heart.

This book explores critical principles and new concepts in bioengineering, integrating the biological, physical and chemical laws and principles that provide a foundation for the field.

This book describes how the principle of self-sufficiency can be applied to a reconfigurable modular robotic organism.

This book provides readers with basic principles of the electrochemistry of the electrodes used in modern, implantable neural prostheses.

This book provides a cutting-edge overview of the latest developments in Brain-Computer-Interfaces (BCIs), reported by leading research groups.

This book focuses on new research fields of diamond, from its growth to applications.

This book addresses important biomaterials which are commonly used to fabricate scaffolds and it describes two major protocols employed in scaffold fabrication.

This volume describes the state-of-knowledge in the study of the relationships between mechanical loading states in tissues and common pathophysiologies related to increase in mass of adipose tissues and/or hyperglycemia which eventually lead to obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, metabolic inflammations, certain types of cancer and other related diseases.

This book brings together the most up-to-date information on the fabrication techniques, properties, and potential applications of low dimensional silicon carbide (SiC) nanostructures such as nanocrystallites, nanowires, nanotubes, and nanostructured films.

The book presents an integrative review of paleoneurology, the study of endocranial morphology in fossil species.

This book describes a comprehensive framework for hardware/software co-design, optimization, and use of robust, low-cost, and cyberphysical digital microfluidic systems.

This book summarizes the properties and applications of conventional and commercially available fiber-forming, bioresorbable polymers, as well as those currently under study, for use as biotextiles.

This volume presents the contributions of the third International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology (Meditech 2014), held in in Cluj-Napoka, Romania.

This book contains the full papers presented at the MICCAI 2013 workshop Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging.

This book combines a scholarly introduction with state-of-the-art research in the characterization of Internet addiction.

Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

New computerized approaches to various problems have become critically important in healthcare.

New computerized approaches to various problems have become critically important in healthcare.

This book presents the complete formulation of a new advanced discretization meshless technique: the Natural Neighbour Radial Point Interpolation Method (NNRPIM).

This volume describes new frontiers in medical and service robotics in the light of recent developments in technology to advance robot design and implementation.

Nicola Salvi's thesis offers a remarkably cogent view of highly sophisticated NMR methods.

This book summarizes the main methods of experimental stress analysis and examines their application to various states of stress of major technical interest, highlighting aspects not always covered in the classic literature.

This book presents an innovative concept for the realization of sensors based on a planar metamaterial microwave array and shows their application in biomedical analysis and treatment.

Water and moisture undermine strong adhesion to polar surfaces.

This monograph presents a short course in computational geometry and topology.

Bionics means learning from the nature for the development of technology.

This book contains the outcome of the international meeting on instability, control and noise generated by massive flow separation that was organized at the Monash Center, in Prato, Italy, September 4-6, 2013.

A network is a mathematical object consisting of a set of points that are connected to each other in some fashion by lines.

This book explores the design of ultra wideband (UWB) technology for wireless body-area networks (WBAN).

This book describes a global assessment of stem cell engineering research, achieved through site visits by a panel of experts to leading institutes, followed by dedicated workshops.

The present book discusses topics related to research and development of materials and devices at nanoscale size and their respective application in medicine and biomedicine.

This book covers the main mathematical and numerical models in computational electrocardiology, ranging from microscopic membrane models of cardiac ionic channels to macroscopic bidomain, monodomain, eikonal models and cardiac source representations.

This book provides a broad overview of the topic Bioinformatics with focus on data, information and knowledge.

This book provides a thorough overview of cutting-edge research on electronics applications relevant to industry, the environment and society at large.

Environmental conditions and pressurized spacesuits expose astronauts to problems of fatigue during lengthy extravehicular activities, with adverse impacts especially on the dexterity, force and endurance of the hands and arms.

Exploring the structure and mechanics of aging soft tissues, this edited volume presents authoritative reviews from leading experts on a range of tissues including skin, tendons, vasculature and plantar soft tissues.

This book contains thirteen contributions from invited experts of international recognition addressing important issues in shape analysis in medical image analysis, including techniques for image segmentation, registration, modelling and classification and applications in biology, as well as in cardiac, brain, spine, chest, lung and clinical practice.

This book contains the full papers presented at the MICCAI 2013 workshop Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations (MWBIVPCS 2013).

This volume presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI).

This volume presents the processing of the 15th ICMBE held from 4th to 7th December 2013, Singapore.

Synthetic Biology is already an object of intensive debate.

This monograph reports on advances in the measurement and study of autonomic nervous system (ANS) dynamics as a source of reliable and effective markers for mood state recognition and assessment of emotional responses.

This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of controlled drug delivery systems, covering the most important innovative applications.

Magnesium Biomaterials provides a succinct up-to-date overview of Magnesium biomaterial development, critically examines the types of in vitro experiments that may be performed, and investigates the numerous variables that affect Magnesium biodegradation when undertaking these experiments.

This book contains mainly the selected papers of the First International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2012.