Principles of Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurement

by Richard Aston

A contemporary new text for preparing students to work with the complex patient-care equipment found in today's modern hospitals and clinics. It begins by presenting fundamental prerequisite concepts of electronic circuit theory, medical equipment history and physiological transducers, as well as a systematic approach to troubleshooting. The text then goes on to offer individual chapters on common and speciality medical equipment, both diagnostic and therapeutic. Self-contained, these chapters can be used in any order, to fit the instructor's class goals and syllabus.

558 pages, Paperback

First published March 20, 1990

About the author

Richard Aston's great-grandfather immigrated from Wales to Pennsylvania as a coal miner in 1857 and ten of his other relatives worked as bricklayers and builders in the Wyoming Valley. Several were killed on the job. His father, having worked as a builder through the depression of the 1930s encouraged him to follow in his mother's footsteps, so Aston spent twenty-seven years in the classroom teaching. He has been publishing poems for over thirty years in many different journals, anthologies and art catalogs. He also shares poems orally, and often by recitation. He also does technical writing, published as three textbooks and numerous professional engineering papers.

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