Biomedical and Life Physics: Proceedings of the Second Gauss Symposium, 2–8th August 1993, Munich - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3322850196 ISBN 13: 9783322850195

Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 2012

Synopsis

D. N. Ghista (Based on the Opening Address at the International Conference on Biomedical Physics & Mathematics of the Gauss Symposium, August 2, 1993 at Ludwig Maximillians Universitiit, Munchen, Germany) The traditional practice of Biomedical physics has now expanded to involve multiple aspects of medical practice: development of systems and technology in medical monitoring (e. g. , PET visualization of brain receptors to identify neuronal dysfunction), diagnosis (e. g. , computer-aided echocardiographic texture analysis to detect myocardial infarcts), organ­ support (e. g. , peritoneal dialysis), and therapeutic function (e. g. , encapsulation of insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells for treatment of diabetes). However, is Biomedical Physics a relatively new field? Not really, although we may have opened up new vistas of it, as presented in this book. Let us recall some early and well-known physician-cum-biomedical physicists. Both physical and physiological scientists will know of Jean Poiseuille (1799-1869), physician and physiologist; he measured blood pressure with a mercury manometer while being a medical student in Paris, received his medical degree in 1928, and then went on to describe the law of viscous flow (applicable to arteriolar flow).

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Dr. Dhanjoo N. Ghista ist Professor am Department of Medical Physics & Engineering der United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3322850196
• ISBN 13: 9783322850195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 561
• Editor: Ghista Dhanjoo N.