Introduction to Bioinstrumentation: With Biological, Environmental, and Medical Applications - Couverture rigide

Ferris, Clifford D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0896030008 ISBN 13 : 9780896030008

Editeur : Humana Press Inc., 1979

Synopsis

The present volume is designed as a practical tutorial survey not only for all those interested in bioinstrumentation and its applications, but also as a text for a one-semester upper-division undergraduate course in instrumentation for bioengineering students. A knowledge of basic physics, basic electronics, and mathematics to elementary linear dif- ferential equations is assumed. The book is well suited for use as a reference source for all research and clinical workers in the fields of biology, medicine, and the environmental sciences who have an ade- quate background in the physical sciences. At the University of Wyo- ming, the text is also used for a course in the interdisciplinary program for graduate study in the neurosciences. The philosophy espoused herein is fundamental system analysis and design, rather than detailed discussion of particular devices produced by commercial manufacturers. Equipment-oriented texts, although initially useful, tend to become obsolete rather rapidly. Basic design and analysis techniques change little with time. Discussion has been limited to devices that have found applications in the biological, environmental, and medical fields. Many transducers used in other disciplines have been omitted. It is not the author's intent to produce a compendium of transducer applications, but rather an introduction to those techniques used in the environmental, biological, and medical sciences.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A practical text on contemporary analog instrumentation. The author guides the reader through the fundamental principles of instrument design, thoroughly treating both linear and nonlinear systems, and reviews the nature and behaviour of the major components of instrumentation including transducers, amplifiers, display and recording equipment, signal processors and telemetry systems. The text describes clearly how these components are integrated into effective devices and systems for the practical measurement of specific variables that characterize whatever physical state may be of interest to an investigator. Many individual applications across a great diversity of fields are described in detail, and helpful self-study exercises are also included. Although the book may readily be used as a general tutorial introduction to contemporary instrumentation by any physical, social or biomedical scientist, and by engineers, the author has drawn his examples chiefly from the literature of biology, the environmental sciences, and clinical medicine, and it is these fields that the reader will derive the maximum benefit.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Humana Press Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0896030008
• ISBN 13: 9780896030008
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 330
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible