BookSudip Paul, editor.
Summary: This book illustrates the significance of biomedical engineering in modern healthcare systems. Biomedical engineering plays an important role in a range of areas, from diagnosis and analysis to treatment and recovery and has entered the public consciousness through the proliferation of implantable medical devices, such as pacemakers and artificial hips, as well as the more futuristic technologies such as stem cell engineering and 3-D printing of biological organs. Starting with an introduction to biomedical engineering, the book then discusses various tools and techniques for medical diagnostics and treatment and recent advances. It also provides comprehensive and integrated information on rehabilitation engineering, including the design of artificial body parts, and the underlying principles, and standards. It also presents a conceptual framework to clarify the relationship between ethical policies in medical practice and philosophical moral reasoning. Lastly, the book highlights a number of challenges associated with modern healthcare technologies.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Basic Overview of Human Physiology
Chapter 2. Basics of Bioelectronics. Collection methods
Chapter 3. Overview of Medical Physics
Chapter 4. Biosensors and Transducers
Chapter 5. Biomaterials and its medical applications
Chapter 6. Bioinstrumentation and its design aspects
Chapter 7. Techniques related to disease diagnosis and therapeutics
Chapter 8. Biosignals and its significance
Chapter 9. Medical imaging and image processing
Chapter 10. Pathophysiology of diseases causing physical disability
Chapter 11. Rehabilitation engineering
Chapter 12. Robotics and its applications
Chapter 13. Calibration, repair and safety aspects
Chapter 14. Medical ethics and policies
Chapter 15. Modern diagnostics tools.