Published 2000
Table of Contents:
“...-- Roles played by biomedical engineers -- Professional status of biomedical engineering -- Professional societies -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Anatomy and physiology -- Introduction -- Cellular organization -- Tissues -- Major organ systems -- Homeostasis -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Bioelectric phenomena -- Introduction -- History -- Neurons -- Basic biophysics tools and relationships -- Equivalent circuit model for the cell membrane -- Hodgkin-Huxley model of the action potential -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Biomedical sensors -- Introduction -- Biopotential measurements -- Physical measurements -- Blood gases and pH sensors -- Bioanalytical sensors -- Optical biosensors -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Bioinstrumentation -- Introduction -- Basic instrumentation system -- Analog circuits -- Signal conditioning -- Instrumentation design --
Computer-based instrumentation systems -- Summary -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Biosignal
processing -- Introduction -- Physiological origins of biosignals -- Characteristics of biosignals -- Signal acquisition -- Frequency domain representation of biosignals -- The z transform -- Digital filters -- Signal averaging -- Wavelet transform and short-time fourier transform -- Artificial intelligence techniques -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Physiological modeling -- Introduction -- An overview of the
fast eye movement system -- Westheimer's saccadic eye movement model -- The saccade controller -- Development of an oculomotor muscle model -- A linear muscle model -- A linear homeomorphic saccadic eye movement model -- A truer linear homeomorphic saccadic eye movement model -- Saccade pathways -- System identification -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Compartmental analysis -- Introduction -- Model postulates -- Compartmental structure -- Modified compartmental analysis -- Convective transport between physiologic compartments -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Biomechanics -- Introduction -- Basic mechanics -- Mechanics of materials -- Viscoelastic properties -- Cartilage, ligament, tendon, and muscle -- Clinical gait analysis -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Cardiovascular mechanics -- Introduction -- Definition of a fluid and basic principles of biofluid mechanics -- Constitutive modeling of physiologic fluids: blood -- Generation of flow in the cardiovascular system: the human heart (cardiology) and the cardiac cycle -- Fluid dynamic field equations: conservation of mass, energy, and momentum -- Hemodynamics in vascular channels: arterial (time dependent) and venous (steady) -- General aspects of control of cardiovascular function -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Biomaterials -- Introduction -- Mechanical properties and mechanical testing -- General classification of materials used in medical devices -- Degradation of materials -- Biological effects -- Impact of degradation of materials on the biological system -- Biocompatibility testing -- Biomaterials and device design criteria -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Tissue engineering -- Cellular therapies -- Tissue dynamics -- Stem cells -- The cellular fate
processes -- Cellular communications -- The tissue microenvironment -- Scaling up -- Delivering cell therapies in a clinical setting -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Biotechnology -- Introduction -- Basic techniques -- Other core technologies -- Medical applications -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Radiation
imaging -- Introduction -- Emission
imaging systems -- Instrumentation and
imaging devices -- Radiographic
imaging systems -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Ultrasound -- Introduction -- Fundamentals of acoustic propagation -- Diagnostic ultrasonic
imaging -- New developments -- Biological effects of ultrasound -- Therapeutic ultrasound -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance
imaging -- Introduction -- Nuclear magnetism -- NMR -- MRI -- Instrumentation for MRI -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Biomedical optics and lasers -- Introduction -- Essential optical principles -- Fundamentals of light propagation in biological tissue -- Physical interaction of light and physical sensing -- Biochemical measurement techniques using light -- Fundamentals of photothermal therapeutic effects of lasers -- Fiber optics and waveguides in medicine -- Biomedical optical
imaging -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology -- Introduction -- The human component -- Principles of assistive technology assessment -- Principles of rehabilitation engineering -- Practice of rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Clinical engineering and electrical safety -- Introduction -- A historical perspective -- The role of the clinical engineer -- Safety in the clinical environment -- Electrical safety -- Electrical safety
programs -- The future of clinical engineering -- Preparation for clinical engineers -- Exercises -- Suggested reading -- Moral and ethical issues -- Introduction -- Morality and ethics: a definition of terms -- Two moral norms: beneficence and nonmaleficence -- Redefining death -- The terminally ill patient and euthanasia -- Taking control -- Human experimentation -- Definition and purpose of experimentation -- Informed consent -- Regulation of medical device innovation -- Ethical issues in feasibility studies -- Ethical issues in emergency use -- Ethical issues in treatment use -- The Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 -- Exercises -- Suggested reading....
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