Medical Technology category: 1603 books
by David H. Sliney, Stephen L. Trokel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This text was designed for the physicians, nurses, technical personnel, and staff members of medical facilities using lasers for surgical, therapeutic, and diagnostic purposes. The objective is to provide an understanding of the potential health and safety hazards associated with the use of medical...
Advances for Prosthetic Technology
From Historical Perspective to Current Status to Future Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book focuses on the advances in transtibial prosthetic technology and targets research in the evolution of the powered prosthesis such as the BiOM, which was derived from considerable research and development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The concept of the book spans the historical...
The Big Unlock
Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-Based Care Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Along with a shift towards value-based care, a digital transformation is under way in health care. However, health care enterprises are having a hard time keeping up with advances in information technology.
Organizations that could once spend months or years developing a strategy to deliver...
Universal Access and Assistive Technology
Proceedings of the Cambridge Workshop on UA and AT ’02
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The first Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) was held at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in March 2002. It was inspired by the earlier, highly successful Cambridge Workshops on Rehabilitation Robotics organised by the late Robin Jackson. Robin was the founder of Rehabilitation...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
The proceeding is a collection of research papers presented at the International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology (ICoSSEET2014), a conference dedicated to address the challenges in the areas of sports science, exercise, sports engineering and technology including...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The proceeding is a collection of research papers presented at the 2nd International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology (ICoSSEET2015), a conference dedicated to address the challenges in the areas of sports science, exercise, sports engineering and technology including...
Breathing Race into the Machine
The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared...
by John J. Trinckes, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
The healthcare industry is under privacy attack. The book discusses the issues from the healthcare organization and individual perspectives. Someone hacking into a medical device and changing it is life-threatening. Personal information is available on the black market. And there are increased medical...
by Susan Arias, Sujata K. Bhatia
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book investigates the potential medical benefits natural biomaterials can offer in developing countries by analyzing the case of Bolivia. The book explores the medical and health related applications of Bolivian commodities: quinoa, barley, sugarcane, corn, sorghum and sunflower seeds. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Despite advances in materials and sterilisation, patients who receive biomaterials of medical device implants are still at risk of developing an infection around the implantation site. This book reviews the fundamentals of biomaterials and medical device related infections and methods and materials...
Celiac Disease and Gluten
Multidisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Celiac Disease and Gluten: Multidisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities is a unique reference work—the first to integrate the insights of the causes and effects of celiac disease from the chemistry of reaction-causing foods to the diagnosis, pathogenesis, and symptoms that lead to proper diagnoses...
Advancements of Medical Electronics
Proceedings of the First International Conference, ICAME 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The book is a collection of peer-reviewed scientific papers submitted by active researchers in the 1st International Conference on Advancements of Medical Electronics (ICAME2015). The conference is organized jointly by the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering,...
Advanced Robotics for Medical Rehabilitation
Current State of the Art and Recent Advances
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Focussing on the key technologies in developing robots for a wide range of medical rehabilitation activities – which will include robotics basics, modelling and control, biomechanics modelling, rehabilitation strategies, robot assistance, clinical setup/implementation as well as neural and muscular...
Computational Anatomy Based on Whole Body Imaging
Basic Principles of Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book deals with computational anatomy, an emerging discipline recognized in medical science as a derivative of conventional anatomy. It is also a completely new research area on the boundaries of several sciences and technologies, such as medical imaging, computer vision, and applied mathematics....