Biomedical and Life Physics

Proceedings of the Second Gauss Symposium, 2¿8th August 1993, Munich
Herausgegeben:Ghista, Dhanjoo N.

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Produktbeschreibung

D. N. Ghista (Based on the Opening Address at the International Conference on Biomedical Physics & Mathematics of the Gauss Symposium, August 2, 1993 at Ludwig Maximillians Universitiit, Munchen, Germany) The traditional practice of Biomedical physics has now expanded to involve multiple aspects of medical practice: development of systems and technology in medical monitoring (e. g. , PET visualization of brain receptors to identify neuronal dysfunction), diagnosis (e. g. , computer-aided echocardiographic texture analysis to detect myocardial infarcts), organ support (e. g. , peritoneal dialysis), and therapeutic function (e. g. , encapsulation of insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells for treatment of diabetes). However, is Biomedical Physics a relatively new field? Not really, although we may have opened up new vistas of it, as presented in this book. Let us recall some early and well-known physician-cum-biomedical physicists. Both physical and physiological scientists will know of Jean Poiseuille (1799-1869), physician and physiologist; he measured blood pressure with a mercury manometer while being a medical student in Paris, received his medical degree in 1928, and then went on to describe the law of viscous flow (applicable to arteriolar flow).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin / Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-322-85019-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 170mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 945g
• ISBN-13: 9783322850195
• ISBN-10: 3322850196
• Artikelnr.: 36120981

Autorenporträt

Dr. Dhanjoo N. Ghista ist Professor am Department of Medical Physics & Engineering der United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain.

Inhaltsangabe

Metabolic Control, Gowth, and Optimization.- to Session Metabolic Regulatory Systems.- Metabolic Control Analysis Using Transient State Data.- Control of Dynamics and Steady State: Applications to Multidrug Resistance.- Parameter Space Classification of Solutions to a Mathematical Model for the Cortisol Secretion System in Normal Man.- Optimization of Glycogen Design in the Evolution of Metabolism.- Tumor Growth and Treatment Planning: A Novel Simulation Approach.- Maximization of Enzymic Activity under Consideration of Various Constraints.- Metabolic Control Theory.- Determining Elementary Modes of Functioning in Biochemical Reaction Networks at Steady State.- On Inferring the Kinetic Scheme of an Ion Channel from Postsynaptic Currents.- Mathematical Modelling of Red Blood Cell Enzyme Deficiencies as an Example for Large-Scale Parameter Changes in Biochemical Reaction Systems.- Simulation of Dioxygen Free Radical Reactions: Their Importance in the Initiation of Lipid Peroxidation.- Residual Sodium and Potassium Fluxes Through Red Blood Cell Membranes.- Electrocardiography: Processes and Analyses.- The Role of Natural Selection and Evolution in the Game of the Pentose Phosphate Cycle.- The Forward and Inverse Problems of Electrocardiography.- Simulation of the Spread of Excitation in the Myocardial Tissue.- A Hybrid Model of Propagated Excitation in the Ventricular Myocardium.- Extracardiac Field due to Propagated Excitation in the Ventricular Myocardium.- Spatio-Temporal Constraints in Inverse Electrocardiography.- When is the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography Well-Posed.- Local Regularization and Adaptive Methods for the Inverse Problem.- On Regularization Parameters for Inverse Problems in Electrocardiography.- Gastrointestinal Mechanisms and Disorders.- The Forces Exerted on the Duodenum and Sphincter of Oddi During ERCP, and Sphincterotomy.- Small Bowel Propulsion: Transport of a Solid Bolus.- Regulatory Role of the Adrenergic Synapse Within a Neural Circuit.- Duodenal Bioelectrical Waxing and Waning Activity.- Drug Delivery Systems.- Drug Delivery Systems: Technology and Clinical Applications.- Recent Developments in Drug Delivery Systems.- Port-Catheter Systems: Design, Advantages, and Applications.- Hydrocephalus Management With a Flow-Control Shunt: Overdrainage and Proximal Obstruction: Controllable Complications of Shunting.- Subtle Energies.- to the Microvita Section.- The Origins of Mind.- Microvita: A New Approach to Matter, Life and Health.- The Quantum Field of the Healing Force.- Is Another Physics Needed to Explain Fundamental Fluctuations in Physical Measurements?.- Consciousness.- Scientific Research into Consciousness.- The Challenge of Consciousness Study.- First-Person Experience and the Scientific Exploration of Consciousness.- The Near-Death Experience and the Nature of Consciousness.- Experimental Evidence Suggestive of Anomalous Consciousness Interactions.- Theoretical Speculations and Energy Phenomena Associated with Spiritual Healing.- Towards a Science of Consciousness.- Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Delivery.- Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Delivery.- Recent Developments and Open Problems in Feedback Control of the Glucose System in Diabetes.- Autonomic Dysfunction in Diabetes Mellitus.- Physiologic Modelling of Type-2-Diabetes for Medical Education.- Rechargeable Glucose Biosensors.- The Influence of Temperature on pH-Responsive Chemical Valve Systems: Thermodynamic Aspects for Drug Delivery.- Control Algorithms for a Wearable Artificial Pancreas.- Adaptive Glycaemia Control Using Neural Networks.- Neuromuscular Remodelling in Development and Ageing.- Neuromuscular Remodelling During Development and Aging.- Synaptic Plasticity During Aging of the Neuromuscular Junction.- Neuromuscular Remodelling in the Adult Induced by Small Physiologic Changes in the Locomotor Activity.- Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Regulation of Gene Expression in Spinal Motoneurons.