Full Description
Minimally invasive medicine has the goal of providing health care with minimal trauma. When minimally invasive surgery is utilized, it reduces the length of hospital stays, lowers costs, lowers pain, and reduces blood loss. Other minimally invasive techniques minimize radiation exposure, tissue damage, and drug side effects.
Collecting contributions from workers in various fields within the sphere of minimally invasive medical technology, this book provides essential information for those involved with researching, designing, and using minimally invasive devices and systems. It emphasizes the technology required to accomplish minimally invasive medicine. The book will be of interest to biomedical engineers, medical physicists, and health care providers who want to know the technical workings of their devices and instruments.
Contents
Chemical Sensors. Neuro-Electric Signal Recording. Pressure Sensors. X-Ray-Based Imaging. Nuclear Medicine. MRI. Biomagnetic and Bioelectic Imaging. Ultrasound. Multimodal Imaging. General Techniques and Applications. Endoscopic Surgery. Image-Guided Surgery. Virtual and Augmented Reality in Medicine. Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics. Ablation. Neuromuscular Stimulation. Helical Tomotherapy. Drug Delivery. Index
