Bücher der Reihe Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering

This book presents the state-of-the-art in biomimetics, integrating a variety of application fields including biophysics, surface sciences, medicine and architecture. Covers materials and structures in nanotechnology and biomaterials research, and much more.

The first book to bring together experts in epilepsy, bio-engineering and dynamical systems theory, to discuss the possibility of treating epilepsy by controlling mechanisms that cause seizures. It includes a unique reference database with more than 1000 references, including hard-to-access references in the Russian literature.

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.

This field offers intrinsically a wide scope of applications for laser based methods regarding structuring and modification of materials. The book covers the most important laser lithographic methods and various biomimetics application scenarios ranging from coatings and biotechnology to construction, medical applications and photonics.

As well as its didactic presentation of the field, this volume covers the commercial applications of biomimetics, detailing all of the most important effects and covering a number of examples including roughness-induced superomniphobic surfaces.

Infrared spectroscopy is a new and innovative technology to study protein folding/misfolding events in the broad arsenal of techniques conventionally used in this field.

The papers collected in this hugely useful volume cover the principle physical and biological aspects of radiation therapy and in addition, address practical clinical considerations in the planning and delivering of that therapy.

In modern medicine, imaging is the most effective tool for diagnostics, treatment planning and therapy. Almost all modalities have went to directly digital acquisition techniques and processing of this image data have become an important option for health care in future.

Infrared spectroscopy is a new and innovative technology to study protein folding/misfolding events in the broad arsenal of techniques conventionally used in this field.

Because of their ability to differentiate and develop into functional vasculature, stem cells hold tremendous promise for therapeutic applications.

Biomechanics of the Brain will present an introduction to brain anatomy for engineers and scientists.

More profound understanding of the nature of light and light-matter interactions in biology has enabled many applications in the biology and medical fields.

Life is produced by the interplay of water and biomolecules. This book deals with the physicochemical aspects of such life phenomena produced by water and biomolecules, and addresses topics including "Protein Dynamics and Functions", "Protein and DNA Folding", and "Protein Amyloidosis".

More profound understanding of the nature of light and light-matter interactions in biology has enabled many applications in the biology and medical fields.

Biomedical Signals and Sensors II

The main topics include: fluorescence imaging, confocal imaging, micro-endoscope, polarization imaging, hyperspectral imaging, OCT imaging, multimodal imaging and spectroscopic systems.

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.

A much-needed work that provides an authoritative overview of the fundamental biological facts, theoretical models, and current experimental developments in this fascinating area. The main challenge in the field of cell motility is to develop a complete physical description on how and why cells move.

Recent studies have shown that novel processing and modeling techniques may be used to create patient-specific prostheses, artificial tissues, and other implants using data obtained from magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, or other imaging techniques.

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.

This guide to laser interactions with a variety of biological cells and tissues delivers a practical analytical tool for assessing interference effects. It includes mathematical models and solutions to recognized problems in biomedical diagnostics.

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.

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.

Learn about the many biological and medical applications of ultrashort laser pulses. The authors highlight and explain how the briefness of these laser pulses permits the tracing of even the fastest processes in photo-active bio-systems. They also present a variety of applications that rely on the high peak intensity of ultrashort laser pulses.

Learn about the many biological and medical applications of ultrashort laser pulses. The authors highlight and explain how the briefness of these laser pulses permits the tracing of even the fastest processes in photo-active bio-systems. They also present a variety of applications that rely on the high peak intensity of ultrashort laser pulses.

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.

The topic of this book is the development of automated and inexpensive tools that transfer medical tests from a specialized clinical laboratory directly to the point of care, using biochip technology. They can use this book as a review of the field and as a guide for the development of novel biochip technology for point of care medicine.

Furthermore, image registration enables the estimation of the breathing-induced motion and the description of the temporal change in position and shape of the structures of interest by establishing the correspondence between images acquired at different phases of the breathing cycle.

This book gives an overview of recent developments in RS and SERS for sensing and biosensing considering also limitations, possibilities and prospects of this technique.