Medicine by design : the practice and promise of biomedical engineering /
Annotation A heart that once beat erratically has regained its natural rhythm. A woman paralyzed by an automobile accident is now able to resume her favorite hobby. Physicians using a robotic surgeon named da Vinci perform lifesaving operations. These are some of the feats of biomedical engineering,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The rise of a new field
- The new generation
- Beyond the artificial heart
- The pump and its pipes
- To breathe again
- The wires
- Moving into the brain
- The da Vinci
- The virtual surgeon
- Bones
- The pictures
- Seeing the unseen
- The business
- Weng's wars
- Tissues
- Body builders
- The road ahead.