Medical Technology category: 1603 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This book provides a cohesive overview of the current technological advances in computational radiology, and their applications in orthopaedic interventions.
Contributed by the leading researchers in the field, this volume covers not only basic computational radiology techniques such as statistical...
Chocolate and Health
Chemistry, Nutrition and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Following on from their previous volume on Chocolate as Medicine, Philip K. Wilson and W. Jeffrey Hurst edit this companion volume, Chocolate and Health, providing a comprehensive overview of the chemistry, nutrition and bioavailability of cacao and chocolate.
The book begins with a brief historical...
Pharma-Nutrition
An Overview
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Natural products and functional/medical foods are now widely acknowledged as having an effect on the microbiome of the intestine, which in turn influences the outcome of certain disease. This book reviews the impact and effects of natural products and functional/medical foods (nutritional programming)...
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine
New Approaches and New Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
The Computational Biomechanics for Medicine titles provide an opportunity for specialists in computational biomechanics to present their latest methodologiesand advancements. Thisvolumecomprises twelve of the newest approaches and applications of computational biomechanics, from researchers in Australia,...
Mechanics of Biomaterials
Fundamental Principles for Implant Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Teaching mechanical and structural biomaterials concepts for successful medical implant design, this self-contained text provides a complete grounding for students and newcomers to the field. Split into three sections: Materials, Mechanics and Case Studies, it begins with a review of sterilization,...
Aqueous Lubrication
Natural and Biomimetic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Man lubricates mostly with oil. Nature lubricates exclusively with water. Pure water is a poor lubricant, but the addition of proteins, especially glycoproteins, can modify surfaces to make them far more lubricating at slow speeds. Understanding how nature does this, and the physical structures involved,...
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine
Imaging, Modeling and Computing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The Computational Biomechanics for Medicine titles provide an opportunity for specialists in computational biomechanics to present their latest methodologies and advancements. This volume comprises eighteen of the newest approaches and applications of computational biomechanics, from researchers in...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
This book presents for the first time, the scattered novel results that have been achieved in very recent years in study on various thin calcium phosphate coatings produced by very diverse techniques. The comparison of thin calcium phosphate coatings with the thick plasma-sprayed ones is also included...
The Liver
Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The Liver: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants takes a novel approach to the science of oxidative stress in liver disease by recognizing that diseases are multifactorial and oxidative stress is a single component. It highlights oxidative stress in relation to other processes, such as apoptosis,...
Radiation Exposure and Image Quality in X-Ray Diagnostic Radiology
Physical Principles and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
This completely updated second edition of Radiation Exposure and Image Quality in X-ray Diagnostic Radiology provides the reader with detailed guidance on the optimization of radiological imaging. The basic physical principles of diagnostic radiology are first presented in detail, and their application...
Health Information Science
5th International Conference, HIS 2016, Shanghai, China, November 5-7, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2016, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2016. The 13 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The scope of the...
by Fahimuddin Shaik, Amit Kumar, D.Sravan Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book highlights recent findings on and analyses conducted on signals and images in the area of medicine. The experimental investigations involve a variety of signals and images and their methodologies range from very basic to sophisticated methods. The book explains how signal and image processing...
Advances in Bionanomaterials
Selected Papers from the 2nd Workshop in Bionanomaterials, BIONAM 2016, October 4-7, 2016, Salerno, Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book reports on multidisciplinary research focusing on the analysis, synthesis and design of bionanomaterials. It merges the biophysicists’, the biochemists’ and bioengineers’ perspectives, covering the study of the basic properties of materials and their interaction with biological systems,...
by Huw D Summers
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The application of nanotechnology to medicine is revolutionizing healthcare. This book focuses on the science and engineering driving this revolution, the fabrication of nanostructures for diagnosis and therapy, advanced imaging at the molecular scale and the application of nanoscale physics to bring...