Introduction to biomedical engineering /

Introduction to biomedical engineering /

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Imprint:San Diego : Academic Press, c2000.
Description:xvii, 1062 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Academic Press series in biomedical engineering
Subject:Biomedical engineering.
Biomedical engineering.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4674603
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Varying Form of Title:Biomedical engineering
Other authors / contributors:Enderle, John D. (John Denis)
Blanchard, Susan M.
Bronzino, Joseph D., 1937-
ISBN:0122386604 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 11. Biomaterials
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Mechanical Properties and Mechanical Testing
  • 11.3. General Classification of Materials Used in Medical Devices
  • 11.4. Degradation of Materials
  • 11.5. Biological Effects
  • 11.6. Impact of Degradation of Materials on the Biological System
  • 11.7. Biocompatibility Testing
  • 11.8. Biomaterials and Device Design Criteria
  • Suggested Reading
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 12. Tissue Engineering
  • 12.1. Cellular Therapies
  • 12.2. Tissue Dynamics
  • 12.3. Stem Cells
  • 12.4. The Cellular Fate Processes
  • 12.5. Cellular Communications
  • 12.6. The Tissue Microenvironment
  • 12.7. Scaling Up
  • 2. Anatomy and Physiology
  • 12.8. Delivering Cell Therapies in a Clinical Setting
  • 12.9. Conclusions
  • 12.10. Glossary
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 13. Biotechnology
  • 13.1. Introduction
  • 13.2. Basic Techniques
  • 13.3. Other Core Technologies
  • 13.4. Medical Applications
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 14. Radiation Imaging
  • 14.1. Introduction
  • 14.2. Emission Imaging Systems
  • 14.3. Instrumentation and Imaging Devices
  • 14.4. Radiographic Imaging Systems
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 15. Ultrasound
  • 2.2. Cellular Organization
  • 15.1. Introduction
  • 15.2. Fundamentals of Acoustic Propagation
  • 15.3. Diagnostic Ultrasonic Imaging
  • 15.4. New Developments
  • 15.5. Biological Effects of Ultrasound
  • 15.6. Therapeutic Ultrasound
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 16. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • 16.1. Introduction
  • 2.3. Tissues
  • 16.2. Nuclear Magnetism
  • 16.3. NMR
  • 16.4. MRI
  • 16.5. Instrumentation for MRI
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 17. Biomedical Optics and Lasers
  • 17.1. Introduction
  • 17.2. Essential Optical Principles
  • 17.3. Fundamentals of Light Propagation in Biological Tissue
  • 2.4. Major Organ Systems
  • 17.4. Physical Interaction of Light and Physical Sensing
  • 17.5. Biochemical Measurement Techniques Using Light
  • 17.6. Fundamentals of Photothermal Therapeutic Effects of Lasers
  • 17.7. Fiber Optics and Waveguides in Medicine
  • 17.8. Biomedical Optical Imaging
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 18. Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology
  • 18.1. Introduction
  • 18.2. The Human Component
  • 2.5. Homeostasis
  • 18.3. Principles of Assistive Technology Assessment
  • 18.4. Principles of Rehabilitation Engineering
  • 18.5. Practice of Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 19. Clinical Engineering and Electrical Safety
  • 19.1. Introduction
  • 19.2. A Historical Perspective
  • 19.3. The Role of the Clinical Engineer
  • 19.4. Safety in the Clinical Environment
  • Exercises
  • 19.5. Electrical Safety
  • 19.6. Electrical Safety Programs
  • 19.7. The Future of Clinical Engineering
  • 19.8. Preparation for Clinical Engineers
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 20. Moral and Ethical Issues
  • 20.1. Introduction
  • 20.2. Morality and Ethics: A Definition of Terms
  • 20.3. Two Moral Norms: Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
  • Suggested Reading
  • 20.4. Redefining Death
  • 20.5. The Terminally Ill Patient and Euthanasia
  • 20.6. Taking Control
  • 20.7. Human Experimentation
  • 20.8. Definition and Purpose of Experimentation
  • 20.9. Informed Consent
  • 20.10. Regulation of Medical Device Innovation
  • 20.11. Ethical Issues in Feasibility Studies
  • 20.12. Ethical Issues in Emergency Use
  • 20.13. Ethical Issues in Treatment Use
  • Contributors
  • 3. Bioelectric Phenomena
  • 20.14. The Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • Index
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. History
  • 3.3. Neurons
  • 3.4. Basic Biophysics Tools and Relationships
  • 3.5. Equivalent Circuit Model for the Cell Membrane
  • 3.6. Hodgkin-Huxley Model of the Action Potential
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 4. Biomedical Sensors
  • 1. Biomedical Engineering: A Historical Perspective
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Biopotential Measurements
  • 4.3. Physical Measurements
  • 4.4. Blood Gases and pH Sensors
  • 4.5. Bioanalytical Sensors
  • 4.6. Optical Biosensors
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 5. Bioinstrumentation
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Evolution of the Modern Health Care System
  • 5.2. Basic Instrumentation System
  • 5.3. Analog Circuits
  • 5.4. Signal Conditioning
  • 5.5. Instrumentation Design
  • 5.6. Computer-Based Instrumentation Systems
  • 5.7. Summary
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 6. Biosignal Processing
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. The Modern Health Care System
  • 6.2. Physiological Origins of Biosignals
  • 6.3. Characteristics of Biosignals
  • 6.4. Signal Acquisition
  • 6.5. Frequency Domain Representation of Biosignals
  • 6.6. The Z Transform
  • 6.7. Digital Filters
  • 6.8. Signal Averaging
  • 6.9. Wavelet Transform and Short-Time Fourier Transform
  • 6.10. Artificial Intelligence Techniques
  • Exercises
  • 1.3. What Is Biomedical Engineering?
  • Suggested Reading
  • 7. Physiological Modeling
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. An Overview of the Fast Eye Movement System
  • 7.3. Westheimer's Saccadic Eye Movement Model
  • 7.4. The Saccade Controller
  • 7.5. Development of an Oculomotor Muscle Model
  • 7.6. A Linear Muscle Model
  • 7.7. A Linear Homeomorphic Saccadic Eye Movement Model
  • 7.8. A Truer Linear Homeomorphic Saccadic Eye Movement Model
  • 1.4. Roles Played by Biomedical Engineers
  • 7.9. Saccade Pathways
  • 7.10. System Identification
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 8. Compartmental Analysis
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Model Postulates
  • 8.3. Compartmental Structure
  • 8.4. Modified Compartmental Analysis
  • 8.5. Convective Transport between Physiologic Compartments
  • 1.5. Professional Status of Biomedical Engineering
  • Exercises
  • Suggested Reading
  • 9. Biomechanics
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Basic Mechanics
  • 9.3. Mechanics of Materials
  • 9.4. Viscoelastic Properties
  • 9.5. Cartilage, Ligament, Tendon, and Muscle
  • 9.6. Clinical Gait Analysis
  • Exercises
  • 1.6. Professional Societies
  • Suggested Reading
  • 10. Cardiovascular Mechanics
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Definition of a Fluid and Basic Principles of Biofluid Mechanies
  • 10.3. Constitutive Modeling of Physiologic Fluids: Blood
  • 10.4. Generation of Flow in the Cardiovascular System: The Human Heart (Cardiology) and the Cardiac Cycle
  • 10.5. Fluid Dynamic Field Equations: Conservation of Mass, Energy, and Momentum
  • 10.6. Hemodynamics in Vascular Channels: Arterial (Time Dependent) and Venous (Steady)
  • 10.7. General Aspects of Control of Cardiovascular Function
  • Exercises
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