Sensors in Biomedical Applications
Fundamentals, Technology and Applications
by Gabor Harsanyi

Features:

• Comprehensive survey of the biomedical sensors information you need in ONE easy to reference source
• Defines basic terms and aids in understanding design and operation of sensors
• Appendix includes photographically illustrated examples
• Useful as an quick-read "encyclopedia" for the biomedical sensors professional

This 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.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Sensors And Their Characteristics
3. Integrated And Smart Sensors: Up-To-Date Requirements
4. Special Requirements Of Biomedical Applications
5. Sensor Technologies
6. Monolithic Semiconductor Technologies
7. Ceramics
8. Thin- And Thick-Film Technologies
9. Processing Of Polymer Films
10. Optical-Fiber Technologies
11. Basic Sensor Structures
12. Impedance-Type Structures
13. Semiconductor Devices As Sensors
14. Sensors Based On Acoustic-Wave Propagation
15. Calorimetric Sensors
16. Electrochemical Cells As Sensors
17. Potentiometric Sensors
18. Amperometric Sensors
19. Other Types Of Electrochemical Measurements
20. Sensors With Optical Waveguides
21. Sensing Effects
22. Thermoresistive Effects
23. Thermoelectric Effect
24. Other Thermoeffects Used In Sensors
25. Piezoelectric Effect
26. Electrets In Capacitive Transducers
27. Pyroelectric Effect
28. Piezoresistive Effect
29. Hall Effect
30. Further Effects For Sensing Magnetic Field
31. Superconductor Quantum Interference Device (Squid)
32. Radiation Induced Effects And Related Sensor Structures
33. Adsorption And Absorption Of Chemical Species
34. Selective Molecular Receptors
35. Permeation Through Membranes
36. Ion-Selective Membranes
37. Chemical-Optical Transduction Effects
38. Physical Sensors And Their Application In Biomedicine
39. Measuring Temperature
40. Measuring Core Temperature
41. Surface Temperature Mapping
42. Invasive Temperature Measurements
43. Other Applications Of Temperature Sensors
44. Skin Blood Flow Sensor
45. Hot-Film Anemometry For Measuring Blood Flow
46. Respiratory Flow Monitoring By Hot-Film Anemometry
47. Mechanical Sensors In Biomedicine
48. Noninvasive Blood Pressure Measurements
49. Invasive Blood Pressure Sensors
50. Mechanical Sensors In Spirometry
51. Sensors For Pressure Pulses And Movement
52. Measuring Internal Ocular Pressure
53. Acoustic Sensors In Hearing Aids
54. Sensors In Ultrasound Imaging
55. Ultrasound Imaging Modes
56. Ultrasound Transducers And Arrays
57. Doppler-Sonography For Blood Flow Measurements
58. Detectors In Radiology
59. X-Ray Imaging With Sensors
60. X-Ray Sensors In Computer Tomography
61. Detectors In Nuclear Radiology
62. Other Applications Of Nuclear Detectors
63. Biomedical Applications Of Magnetic Field Sensors
64. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging
65. Sensors For Recording Biomagnetism
66. Magnetic Backprojection Imaging
67. Further Applications Of Physical Sensors
68. Electrodynamic Sensors For Blood Flow-Rate
69. Sensors In Ophthalmoscopy
70. Artificial Retina
71. Tactile Sensors For Artificial Limbs
72. Pick-Ups For Bioelectrical Measurements
73. Microwave Tomography
74. Sensors For Measuring Chemical Quantities In Biomedicine
75. Sensors For Monitoring Blood Gases And Ph
76. Operation Principles Of Electrochemical Cells
77. Invasive Electrochemical Sensors
78. Transcutaneous Electrochemical Sensors
79. Optical Fiber Sensors
80. Other Techniques
81. Combined Sensors
82. Optical Oximetry
83. Theoretical Bases Of Blood Oximetry
84. Invasive Oximetry
85. Non-Invasive Ear-Oximetry
86. Pulse Oximetry
87. Other Oximetry Methods
88. Other Applications Of Chemical Sensors
89. Ionic Compounds In Blood And Other Secretions
90. Chemical Parameters Of The Inner Eyelid
91. Monitoring Ph In The Gastric Acid
92. Measuring And Mapping Of Tissue Ph/Po2
93. Miscellaneous Gas Sensor Applications
94. Biosensors
95. Enzymatic Biosensors
96. Theoretical Bases
97. Time-Dependent And Stationary Measuring Methods
98. Transducer Types
99. Multi-Enzyme Reactions, Reagents In Enzymatic Processes
100. Enzyme Immobilization Techniques
101. Operation Characteristics
102. Glucose Sensors
103. Urea Sensors
104. Other Enzymatic Sensor Types
105. Application Perspectives Of Enzymatic Biosensors
106. Affinity Biosensors
107. Operation Principles Of Immunosensors
108. Indirect (Labeled) Immunosensors
109. Direct (Non-Labeled) Immunosensors
110. Dna-Sensors
111. Living Biosensors
112. Microbial Biosensors
113. Tissue-Based Sensors
114. Microphysiometers
115. Neuronal Biosensors
116. Direct Methods For Monitoring Bioactive Compounds
117. Direct Electrochemical Sensing Of Glucose
118. Direct Optical Approaches
119. Infrared Spectroscopy
120. Biocompatibility Of Sensors
121. Summary, Future Trends

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