Full Description
Engineering in Medicine: Advances and Challenges documents the historical development, cutting-edge research and future perspectives on applying engineering technology to medical and healthcare challenges. The book has 22 chapters under 5 sections: cardiovascular engineering, neuroengineering, cellular and molecular bioengineering, medical and biological imaging, and medical devices.The challenges and future perspectives of engineering in medicine are discussed, with novel methodologies that have been implemented in innovative medical device development being described.This is an ideal general resource for biomedical engineering researchers at both universities and in industry as well as for undergraduate and graduate students.
Contents
Section 1: Cardiovascular Engineering
1. Cardiac tissue engineering
2. Benchtop optical mapping approaches to study arrhythmias
3. A new era for improving cardiothoracic transplantations
4. Cardiac Ablation technologies
5. Visible Heart as a novel means to study cardiac device technologies
6. Cardiac pacemakers
7. Less invasive cardiac surgeries and transcatheter technologies
Section 2: Neuroengineering
8. TMS
9. tDCS
10. Optogentics
11. Neural recording and stimulation devices
12. Seizure Prediction
Section 3: Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
13. Bioengineering Exogenic Organs and Cells for Regenerative Medicine
14. Modelling of cancer cell migration
15. Nano optical biosensing technologies
Section 4: Medical and Biological Imaging
16. Ultrahigh field functional MRI and neuoscience
17. Brain structure and fiber tracking imaging for PD patient at ultrahigh field
18. Advanced metabolic Imaging for studying brain energy and function
19. RF challenges and new solution for ultrahigh filed MRI
20. Ultrahigh field human body imaging
Section 5: Medical Devices
21. The medical device innovation process
22. Teaching innovation: workshops, NPDBD, fellows program, etc
23. 3D printing: role for prototyping and pre-surgical planning
24. The role of a MDC for promoting innovation with an academic institution
25. Virtual prototyping
