Presenting the latest innovations, this text highlights advances in tissue, musculoskeletal, locomotive, orthopedic, occupational, ergonomic, sports, cardiovascular, cardiac, and pulmonary biomechanics. Based on years of teaching experience, the author uses illustrative examples and detailed explanations to show how mechanics disciplines can be applied to a wide range of clinical applications, including the analysis of physiological and organ-system processes; the creation of physiologically compatible organ-assist systems and devices; the performance of pre-surgical analysis in order to...

D. N. Ghista (Based on the Opening Address at the International Conference on Biomedical Physics & Mathematics of the Gauss Symposium, August 2, 1993 at Ludwig Maximillians Universitiit, Munchen, Germany) The traditional practice of Biomedical physics has now expanded to involve multiple aspects of medical practice: development of systems and technology in medical monitoring (e. g., PET visualization of brain receptors to identify neuronal dysfunction), diagnosis (e. g., computer-aided echocardiographic texture analysis to detect myocardial infarcts), organ support (e. g., peritoneal...