Biomedical Diagnostic Science and Technology

✍ Scribed by Wai Tak Law, Naim Akmal

• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 440
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Containing modern innovations in the design and application of sensing devices, Biomedical Diagnostic Science and Technology is a state-of-the-art source for analytical, organic, medicinal, physical, surface, and colloid chemists and biochemists; molecular and cell biologists; geneticists; applied and industrial microbiologists; virologists; endocrinologists; electronic, materials, chemical, and mechanical engineers and bioengineers; pharmacists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Electrochemical Biosensors......Page 16
Improved-Accuracy Biosensor Strip for Accu-ChekTM AdvantageRegisteredmark......Page 44
Redox Monomers and Polymers for Biosensors......Page 78
Amperometric Microcells for Diagnostic Enzyme Activity Measurements......Page 96
Flow-Through Immunoassay System for Rapid Clinical Diagnostics*......Page 108
Optical Sensor Arrays for Medical Diagnostics......Page 136
Optochemical Nanosensors for Noninvasive Cellular Analysis......Page 154
Ultrasensitive and Specific Optical Biosensors Inspired by Nature......Page 180
Evanescent-Wave Biosensors......Page 202
Glow-Discharge-Treated Quartz Crystal Microbalance as Immunosensor......Page 218
Diagnostic Polymer Reagents Carrying DNA......Page 230
Electrochemical Gene Sensors......Page 242
Sensing of Second Messengers Using Oligopeptides......Page 258
Recombinant Photoproteins in the Design of Binding Assays......Page 274
Particle Valency Strip Assays......Page 286
“Smart” Materials for Colorimetric Detection of Pathogenic Agents......Page 306
Reagentless Diagnostics: Near-IR Raman Spectroscopy......Page 322
Noninstrumented Quantitative Devices Using Detection Film Built on Woven Fabric......Page 338
A Survey of Structural and Nonreactive Components Used in the Research, Development, and Manufacture of Solid-Phase Medical Diagnostic Reagents......Page 346
Current Status and Future Prospects of Dry Chemistries and Diagnostic Reagents......Page 358
Water-Soluble Phospholipid Polymers as a Novel Synthetic Blocking Reagent in an Immunoassay System......Page 368
Biocompatible Phospholipid Polymers for Prevention of Unfavorable Bioreactions on the Surface of Medical Devices......Page 382
Site-Directed Immobilization of Proteins on Surfaces: Genetic Approaches......Page 396
Polymeric Microspheres and Related Materials for Medical Diagnostics......Page 408
Index......Page 428