Sensors in Biomedical Applications Fundamentals Technology and Applications

Gabor Harsanyi9781566768856, 1566768853

While most books contain some information on related sensors topics, they are limited in their scope on biomedical sensors. Sensors in Biomedical Applications: Fundamentals, Design, Technology and Applications is the first systematized book to concentrate on all available and potential sensor devices of biomedical applications!Sensors in Biomedical Applications presents information on sensor types in a comprehensive and easy to understand format. The first four chapters concentrate on the basics, lending an understanding to operation and design principles of sensor elements. Introduced are sections on: basic terms, sensor technologies, sensor structure and sensing effects. The next three chapters describe application possibilities: physical sensors, sensors for measuring chemical qualities and biosensors. Finally, a chapter covers biocompatability, in addition to an appendix and glossary.Sensors in Biomedical Applications is the definitive reference book for a broad audience. All physicists, chemists and biologists interested in the chemical basis and effects of sensors will find this work invaluable. Biomedical engineers and sensor specialists will find the text useful in its pointed analysis of special design, processing and application problems. Physicians practicing with diagnostic tools will want to see the possibilities and limits of biomedical sensors. Finally, students of all of the above areas who wish to learn more about the basics of biomedical sensors need to have this book.

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Table of contents :
TABLE OF CONTENTS……Page 5
FOREWORD……Page 9
PREFACE……Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……Page 17
1. Introduction……Page 19
2. Sensor Technologies……Page 29
3. Basic Sensor Structures……Page 53
4. Sensing Effects……Page 83
5. Physical Sensors and Their Applications in Biomedicine……Page 117
6. Sensors for Measuring Chemical Quantities in Biomedicine……Page 187
7. Biosensors……Page 241
8. Biocompatibility of Sensors……Page 325
9. Summary and Future Trends……Page 331
Appendices……Page 341
GLOSSARY……Page 355
ABOUT THE AUTHOR……Page 359
INDEX……Page 361