Medical Instrumentation Application and Design

by John G. Webster

This book provides biomedical engineers with the premiere reference on medical instrumentation as well as a comprehensive overview of the basic concepts. The revised edition features new material on infant apnea monitors, impedance anemography, the design of cardiac pacemakers and disposable defibrillator electrodes and their standards. Each chapter includes new problems and updated reference material that covers the latest medical technologies. The chapters have also been revised with new material in medical imaging, providing biomedical engineers with the most current techniques in the field. Table of contents basic concepts of medical instrumentation basic sensors and principles amplifiers and signal processing the origin of bio potentials bio potential electrodes bio potential amplifiers blood pressure and sound measurement of flow and volume of blood measurements of the respiratory system chemical biosensors clinical laboratory instrumentation medical imaging systems therapeutic and prosthetic devices electrical safety appendix index

Genres: Engineering

734 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1978

Reviews

[Alistair · Rating 4 out of 5]

good, detailed overview of the topics you should be aware of if you're designing medical instruments.

[Jakob Kapala · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this book and the material. I would say its a fairly simple book and sometimes I wished for more, but I found that most things explain themselves if you read and understand the text, which is easy to do because it is well written. I used this for an introductory biophotonics / pseudo-graduate class and it worked well, it was one of my best classes I've ever taken.

[Erik Wheeler · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a standard text used by many instrumentation courses. However, I found the information out of date. There is also insufficient amount of examples and end-of-chapter problems.

[Erik Wheeler · Rating 2 out of 5]

This edition is almost identical to the previous one.