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Written in a style accessible to a broad readership, including students, life scientists and clinicians, as well as physical scientists and engineers
Includes key concepts exemplified by illustrations using cutting-edge imaging, modelling, and measurement technologies
Offers a highly concise and relevant textbook focusing on core areas of cardiovascular mechanics
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
With a focus on explaining the underlying principles, this book examines the physiology and mechanics of circulation, mechanobiology and the biomechanics of different components of the cardiovascular system, in-vivo techniques, in-vitro techniques, and the medical applications of this research.
Written for undergraduate and postgraduate students and including sample problems at the end of each chapter, this interdisciplinary text provides an essential introduction to the topic. It is also an ideal reference text for researchers and clinical practitioners, and will benefit a wide range of students and researchers including engineers, physicists, biologists and clinicians who are interested in the area of cardiovascular biomechanics.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queens Medical Research Institute , Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Peter R. Hoskins
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University of Sheffield, Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease/Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicin, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Patricia V. Lawford
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School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Barry J. Doyle
About the editors
Pat Lawford is Professor of Physiological Modelling. She has spent 35 years in cardiovascular biomechanics including experimental techniques and modelling and is centrally involved in recent efforts in the 'Virtual Physiologic Human' project. She is a biologist by training and brings that understanding to her work in biomechanics. This biological background will complement the physics and engineering background of the co-editors. She has extensive teaching experience. This includes 25 years’ experience in MSc teaching to medical physics including 15 years as programme director. She is currently involved in leading postgraduate taught courses within the Faculty of Medicine. She is also a member of a new Institute for in-silico measurement (Insigneo) where she is involved in developing postgraduate taught courses.
Barry Doyle is a Research Fellow of cardiovascular biomechanics. He trained in Bioengineering and has successfully established himself as a figure in the area of patient-specific modelling. To date, he has published the following as first author: 12 journal articles, one full book, two book chapters, and 31 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He has published numerous other works as co-author. The majority of his publications are within the top 10 percentage of most frequently cited in their area, with one particular publication in the top 20 most cited articles since 2009, and also in the top ten most cited papers on aneurysmal biomechanics. His works has received many awards, most notably, the Mimics Innovation Award in 2009 for his work on cardiovascular biomechanics. Doyle was appointed as Honorary Fellow of The University of Edinburgh in 2010 in recognition of his research efforts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cardiovascular Biomechanics
Editors: Peter R. Hoskins, Patricia V. Lawford, Barry J. Doyle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46407-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46405-3Published: 23 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83513-6Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46407-7Published: 16 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 462
Number of Illustrations: 220 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Medical and Radiation Physics, Human Physiology