Biomedical Engineering: Frontier Research and Converging Technologies

✍ Scribed by Hanjoong Jo, Ho-Wook Jun, Jennifer Shin, SangHoon Lee (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 506
• Series: Biosystems & Biorobotics 9
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides readers with an integrative overview of the latest research and developments in the broad field of biomedical engineering. Each of the chapters offers a timely review written by leading biomedical engineers and aims at showing how the convergence of scientific and engineering fields with medicine has created a new basis for practically solving problems concerning human health, wellbeing and disease. While some of the latest frontiers of biomedicine, such as neuroscience and regenerative medicine, are becoming increasingly dependent on new ideas and tools from other disciplines, the paradigm shift caused by technological innovations in the fields of information science, nanotechnology, and robotics is opening new opportunities in healthcare, besides dramatically changing the ways we actually practice science. At the same time, a new generation of engineers, fluent in many different scientific “languages,” is creating entirely new fields of research that approach the “old” questions from a new and holistic angle. The book reports on the scientific revolutions in the field of biomedicine by describing the latest technologies and findings developed at the interface between science and engineering. It addresses students, fellows, and faculty and industry investigators searching for new challenges in the broad biomedical engineering fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nanoparticles for Imaging and Non-viral Gene Therapy....Pages 3-18
Nanoparticles for Pancreatic Islet Imaging....Pages 19-40
Dendritic Nanomaterials for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications....Pages 41-75
Nanomaterials for Diagnostic Imaging of the Brain....Pages 77-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Cellular Interactions with Self-assembled Biomaterials and Composites for Bone Tissue Engineering....Pages 93-123
Engineering Integrative Stem Cell and Biomaterial Therapies for Peripheral Artery Disease....Pages 125-156
Modulation of Innate Immune Response for Tissue Engineering....Pages 157-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Lipid-Based Nanoparticles for Vaccine Applications....Pages 177-197
Bioengineered Human Heart and Skeletal Muscles on Chips: Methods and Applications....Pages 199-208
Organ-on-a-Chip Platforms for Drug Screening and Tissue Engineering....Pages 209-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Hemodynamics and Mechanobiology of Aortic Valve Calcification....Pages 237-261
Functional Stem Cell Biomechanics: Application of Biophysical Techniques and Multi-content 3D Image Analysis....Pages 263-291
Neuroregeneration: Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Strategies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases....Pages 293-325
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Biomedical in vivo Optical Imaging for Disease Espying and Diagnosis....Pages 329-355
Therapeutic Uses of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma: Cancer and Wound....Pages 357-385
Cancer Imaging for Therapy Assessment....Pages 387-405
Advanced Stents for Cardiovascular Applications....Pages 407-426
Recent Advances in Regenerative Approaches to Intervertebral Disc Degeneration....Pages 427-444
Pacing the Heart with Genes: Biological Pacing as an Alternative to Electronic Devices....Pages 445-460
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
Robotic Systems for Minimally Invasive Diagnosis and Therapy....Pages 463-487
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
Robotics for Healthcare....Pages 489-509
Back Matter....Pages 511-511

✦ Subjects

Biomedical Engineering; Nanotechnology; Health Informatics; Neurosciences; Molecular Medicine; Biological Networks, Systems Biology