Engineering in Medicine Advances and Challenges [Hardcover]

Engineering in Medicine: Advances and Challenges documents the historical development, cutting-edge research and future perspectives on applying engineering technology to medical and healthcare challenges. The book has 22 chapters under 5 sections: cardiovascular engineering, neuroengineering, cellular and molecular bioengineering, medical and biological imaging, and medical devices.The challenges and future perspectives of engineering in medicine are discussed, with novel methodologies that have been implemented in innovative medical device development being described.This is an ideal general resource for biomedical engineering researchers at both universities and in industry as well as for undergraduate and graduate students.

• Presents a broad perspective on the state-of-the-art research in applying engineering technology to medical and healthcare challenges that cover cardiovascular engineering, neuroengineering, cellular and molecular bioengineering, medical and biological imaging, and medical devices
• Presents the challenges and future perspectives of engineering in medicine
• Written by members of the University of Minnesota's prestigious Institute of Engineering in Medicine (IEM), in collaboration with other experts around the world

Section 1: Cardiovascular Engineering 1. Cardiac tissue engineering 2. Benchtop optical mapping approaches to study arrhythmias 3. A new era for improving cardiothoracic transplantations 4. Cardiac Ablation technologies 5. Visible Heart as a novel means to study cardiac device technologies 6. Cardiac pacemakers 7. Less invasive cardiac surgeries and transcatheter technologies

Section 2: Neuroengineering 8. TMS 9. tDCS 10. Optogentics 11. Neural recording and stimulation devices 12. Seizure Prediction

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