Published January, 2013
By Dr. Paola Lecca and Paola Lecca
Publisher: Springer
Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics
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This book surveys six areas in which physics and engineering methods are used to model biological processes: tissue engineering, molecular structure modeling, cell mechanics and adhesion, cancer physics and physico-chemical processes of metabolic interactions.

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Published January, 2013
By Ana Fred, Joaquim Filipe and Hugo Gamboa
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on BiomedicalEngineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2011, held in Rome, Italy, in January 2011. The papers cover a wide rangeof topics and are organized in four general topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices;

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Published January, 2013
By Marc Thiriet
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Biomathematical and Biomechanical Modeling of the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems
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The volumes in this authoritative series present a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations.

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Published January, 2013
By Qing-Hua Qin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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Published January, 2013
By Mel I. Mendelson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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Published January, 2013
By Constantinos Mavroidis and Antoine Ferreira
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Nanorobots can be defined as intelligent systems with overall dimensions at or below the micrometer range that are made of assemblies of nanoscale components with individual dimensions ranging between 1 to 100 nm.

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Published January, 2013
By Valery V. Tuchin, Dmitry A. Zimnyakov and Lihong Wang
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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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.

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Published January, 2013
By Jozef A. Helsen and Yannis Missirlis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Replacement of a failing hip joint or other defective organs in the human body by artificial 'spare parts' has significantly improved our quality of life. Hard tissue replacements (joints, long bones, dental), soft tissue (heart valves) and tissue engineering are included.

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Published January, 2013
By Bharat Bhushan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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This book presents the biophysics of hair. It covers the structure of hair, its mechanical properties, nanomechanical characterization, tensile deformation, tribological characterization, the thickness distribution and binding interactions on hair surface.

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Published January, 2013
By R. M. Natal Jorge, Joao Tavares and Renato Natal Jorge
Publisher: Springer
Series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences
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This book contains extended versions of papers presented at the international Conference VIPIMAGE 2009 - ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image, that was held at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, from 14th to 16th of October 2009.

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