Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design

by John G. Webster (Editor), Amit J. Nimunkar (Editor)

Provides a comprehensive overview of the basic concepts behind the application and designs of medical instrumentation This premiere reference on medical instrumentation describes the principles, applications, and design of the medical instrumentation most commonly used in hospitals. It places great emphasis on design principles so that scientists with limited background in electronics can gain enough information to design instruments that may not be commercially available. The revised edition includes new material on microcontroller-based medical instrumentation with relevant code, device design with circuit simulations and implementations, dry electrodes for electrocardiography, sleep apnea monitor, Infusion pump system, medical imaging techniques and electrical safety. Each chapter includes new problems and updated reference material that covers the latest medical technologies. Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design, Fifth Edition covers general concepts that are applicable to all instrumentation systems, including the static and dynamic characteristics of a system, the engineering design process, the commercial development and regulatory classifications, and the electrical safety, protection, codes and standards for medical devices. The readers learn about the principles behind various sensor mechanisms, the necessary amplifier and filter designs for analog signal processing, and the digital data acquisition, processing, storage and display using microcontrollers. The measurements of both cardiovascular dynamics and respiratory dynamics are discussed, as is the developing field of biosensors. The book also covers general concepts of clinical laboratory instrumentation, medical imaging, various therapeutic and prosthetic devices, and more. Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design, Fifth Edition is an excellent book for a senior to graduate-level course in biomedical engineering and will benefit other health professionals involved with the topic.

Genres: Engineering, Textbooks

928 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1978

Reviews

[Alistair · Rating 4 out of 5]

good, detailed overview of the topics you should be aware of if you're designing medical instruments.

[Jakob Kapala · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this book and the material. I would say its a fairly simple book and sometimes I wished for more, but I found that most things explain themselves if you read and understand the text, which is easy to do because it is well written. I used this for an introductory biophotonics / pseudo-graduate class and it worked well, it was one of my best classes I've ever taken.

[Erik Wheeler · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a standard text used by many instrumentation courses. However, I found the information out of date. There is also insufficient amount of examples and end-of-chapter problems.

[Erik Wheeler · Rating 2 out of 5]

This edition is almost identical to the previous one.