Understanding The Human Machine: A Primer For BioengineeringWorld Scientific Publishing Company, 7 ott 2004 - 412 pagine This introductory book for undergraduate students poses a question: What is bioengineering all about? After offering a reference frame and defining the objectives (chapter 1), “physiology” (chapter 2) is presented as a source material followed by “signals” (chapter 3) and “signal pick up” (chapter 4). Chapter 5 deals with the biological amplifier. Reading the signal and the need for mathematical models are the subject matter, respectively, of chapters 6 and 7; they only provide guidance. The last chapter tries to look ahead. Sometimes, the subject is treated in relative depth; at times, the visit is more superficial. Formation rather than information is favored. Historical shots supply background material and spicy insights. Style is light, sprinkled with a little humor. There are exercises which allow students to learn independently. |
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... , processed and displayed. Eventually, feedback signals modify different input levels according to information obtained from the different outputs. an individual, organ or cell, is the source producing signals. Chapter 1. Introduction 9.
... , processed and displayed. Eventually, feedback signals modify different input levels according to information obtained from the different outputs. an individual, organ or cell, is the source producing signals. Chapter 1. Introduction 9.
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... output. The heart as a pump is reviewed by means of the pressure-volume loops, a clear cut engineering concept borrowed from thermodynamics, which leads into new insights of cardiac performance with significant clinical consequences ...
... output. The heart as a pump is reviewed by means of the pressure-volume loops, a clear cut engineering concept borrowed from thermodynamics, which leads into new insights of cardiac performance with significant clinical consequences ...
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... output — to the systemic circulation. The latter is a highly complex network, extended deeply into every tissue and presenting a finite, measurable and variable hindrance to the blood flow. Physiologists call it peripheral resistance, R ...
... output — to the systemic circulation. The latter is a highly complex network, extended deeply into every tissue and presenting a finite, measurable and variable hindrance to the blood flow. Physiologists call it peripheral resistance, R ...
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... output valves as these pressures become higher than the arterial blood pressures, so starting the ejection phase. Hence, valve opening is a passive phenomenon, with a pressure gradient being the only driving mechanism (no muscle or tiny ...
... output valves as these pressures become higher than the arterial blood pressures, so starting the ejection phase. Hence, valve opening is a passive phenomenon, with a pressure gradient being the only driving mechanism (no muscle or tiny ...
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... output or the total flow, coronary and cerebral flows — The direct Fick method In a previous section above, blood flow was presented as one of the variables in the CVS. Here, we want to be more specific. The total flow or cardiac output ...
... output or the total flow, coronary and cerebral flows — The direct Fick method In a previous section above, blood flow was presented as one of the variables in the CVS. Here, we want to be more specific. The total flow or cardiac output ...
Sommario
1 | |
13 | |
What They Are | 217 |
4 Signal Pick Up | 271 |
5 Biological Amplifier | 299 |
Reading the Signals | 337 |
The Need of Mathematical Models | 349 |
8 Rounding Up and Looking Ahead | 359 |
References | 365 |
Index | 383 |
List of Figures | 393 |
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Understanding the Human Machine: A Primer for Bioengineering Max E. Valentinuzzi Anteprima limitata - 2004 |
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