Minimally Invasive Medical Technology

1 Chemical Sensors. 2 Neuro-Electric Signal Recording. 3 Pressure Sensors. 4 X-Ray-Based Imaging. 5 Nuclear Medicine. 6 MRI. 7 Biomagnetic and Bioelectic Imaging. 8 Ultrasound. 9 Multimodal Imaging.10 General Techniques and Applications. 11 Endoscopic Surgery. 12 Image-Guided Surgery. 13 Virtual and Augmented Reality in Medicine. 14 Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics. 15 Ablation. 16 Neuromuscular Stimulation. 17 Helical Tomotherapy. 18 Drug Delivery. Index

Synopsis

This book emphasizes the technology required to accomplish minimally invasive medicine and will be of interest to biomedical engineers, medical physicists and health care providers who want to know the technical workings of their devices and instruments.