Bücher der Reihe Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering

This book presents the application of pulsed electrical discharges in water and water dispersions of metal nanoparticles in medicine (surgery, dentistry, and oncology), biology and ecology.

It is shown that cholesteric liquid crystals in the synovial liquid play a significant role in the mechanism of intra-articular friction reduction. The results of structural, rheological and tribological research of the creation of artificial synovial liquids containing cholesteric liquid crystals in natural synovial liquids are described.

In the second section, the techniques and equipments, including new ones in development such as Cyclinac , Laser and DWA, are described. The fourth section presents models and the fifth section compares both techniques, showing advantages and disadvantages of each, and their similarities.

Starting with protein folding and protein quality control basics, the reader will learn how misfolded proteins can cause diseases ranging from prion diseases to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease to Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the principles of microscopic imaging through tissue-like turbid media in terms of Monte-Carlo simulation. Microscopic imaging through a tissue-like turbid medium can provide higher resolution than transillumination imaging in which no objective is used.

This book covers recent developments in the non-standard asymptotics of the mathematical narrow escape problem in stochastic theory, as well as applications of the narrow escape problem in cell biology.

Biomedical Signals and Sensors II

Optical Polarization in Biomedical Applications introduces key developments in optical polarization methods for quantitative studies of tissues, while presenting the theory of polarization transfer in a random medium as a basis for the quantitative description of polarized light interaction with tissues.

Written by faculty members at Moscow State University, this updated second edition has succinct and authoritative coverage of an array of biophysical topics and models. It deploys mathematical approaches relevant to a wide range of simulated systems.

This book provides the basics of odor, odor analysis techniques, sensors used in odor analysis and overview of odor measurement techniques. For beginners as well researchers this book is a brief guide for odor measurement and analysis.

NanoBiosensing covers the full scope of the field, combining the newest research results in chemistry, biology, and materials science with biosensing and bioanalysis. The text covers important types of nanomaterials for biosensing applications, as well as sensing principles.

This two-volume set focuses on the interface between physiologic mechanisms and diagnostic human engineering. Readers will gain a technical understanding of the underlying concepts necessary to reasonably interpret the corresponding biosignals.

Provides the professional with an overview of current methodologies in the field, with emphasis on the implementation of current research.

This book reviews the neural theory and translates them into digital models. It gives applications in image recognition, foveation, image fusion and information extraction, and includes Python scripts that help readers replicate results presented in the text.

This book deals with medical and biological physics. A survey is given on properties and applications of biocompatible materials. The are used to substitute malfunctional human organs.

This book presents the biophysics of hair. It covers the structure of hair, its mechanical properties, nanomechanical characterization, tensile deformation, tribological characterization, the thickness distribution and binding interactions on hair surface.

Detailed report on a topic that has already attracted much popular interest. Provides fascinating reading for physicists, biologists and general readers alike.

This book describes how biomolecules contribute to the operations of synapses and perform other computationally relevant functions inside dendrites. It presents new ideas that address puzzling open questions, and offers new insights into disorders of the mind.

With growing connections between physics and the life sciences, this text introduces the terminology and the biological systems physicists encounter. It sets out the dynamics of complex systems, and provides a problem-solving challenge from the literature.

Photonics of biopolymers discusses the processes of energy transformation in photoexcited proteins, nucleic acids, membranes and model systems. The author addresses, among other topics: Light absorption, screening and reabsorption; Much of the information stems from the author's own wide experience in the field.

Provides the reader with an up to date insight of the current state of the art in the field of lipid bilayer research and the important insights derived for the understanding of the complex and varied behaviour of biological membranes and its function.

This book summarizes the functioning of complex signaling pathways in different tissues and organs of the body in both health and disease. Containing over 150 figures, it presents the latest research findings as a guide to drug design and tissue engineering.

A presentation of the most elementary form of pulsatile flow as an important prerequisite for the study of other flow applications in biological systems.

Equally important will be coverage of applied aspects of b- logical and medical physics and biomedical engineering such as molecular el- tronic components and devices, biosensors, medicine, imaging, physical prin- ples of renewable energy production, advanced prostheses, and environmental control and engineering.

Makes connections between diseases, drugs and signaling in those chapters not specifically devoted to pathogens. Reviews background in first 5 chapters then offers chapters on cancers and apoptosis and on bacteria and viruses.

This monograph addresses, in a systematic and pedagogical manner, the mathematical methods and the algorithms required to deal with the molecularly based problems of bioinformatics.

This introduction to computer simulation and data analysis in molecular biology and biophysics is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It covers many of the major quantitative topics in modern molecular and cell biology and biophysics.

In- tended for undergraduate courses in biophysics, biological physics, physiology, medical physics, and biomedical engineering, this is an introduction to statistical physics with examples and problems from the medical and biological sciences.