Overview
- Presents a strategic consideration of diverse biomedical signals with needed basics included
- Treats diverse biosignals and explains the needed basics for measurements
- Facilitates understanding and cooperation between engineers and live science
- Offers comprehensive but balanced entrance into the field of biomedical engineering
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)
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Table of contents (2 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Adverse health effects
- Apneic sounds
- Application regions
- Biomedical instrumentation
- Biomedical sensing book
- Biosignal analysis
- Biosignal monitoring
- Blood oxygenation
- Cardiac activity
- Chestpiece
- Contacting force and skin temperature
- Coupling of body sounds
- Coupling of light
- Exposure limits
- Formation of body sounds
- Formation of optic biosignals
- Heart sounds
- Inhomogeneity effects on light
- Inhomogeneity effects on sounds
- Light emission
- Light modulation by physiological phenomena
- Light sink
- Light wavelength
- Lung sounds
- Microphone
- Motion artefacts
- Mutual interrelations of sounds
- Organs at risk
- Penetration depth of light
- Phenomenological physiology
- Physiological mechanisms
- Physiological phenomena acoustic biosignals
- Probing depth of light
- Propagation of light
- Propagation of sounds
- Respiratory activity
- Snoring sounds
- Source-sink distance
- Spatial distribution of body sounds Optic biosignals
- Stethoscope
- Transmission and reflection modes
- Volume effects on light
- Volume effects on sounds
- eye and skin
About this book
The book set develops a bridge between physiologic mechanisms and diagnostic human engineering. While the first volume is focused on the interface between physiologic mechanisms and the resultant biosignals, this second volume is devoted to the interface between biosignals and biomedical sensors. That is, in the first volume, the physiologic mechanisms determining biosignals are described from the basic cellular level up to their advanced mutual coordination level. This second volume, considers the genesis of acoustic and optic biosignals and the associated sensing technology from a strategic point of view. As a novelty, this book discusses heterogeneous biosignals within a common frame. This frame comprises both the biosignal formation path from the biosignal source at the physiological level to biosignal propagation in the body, and the biosignal sensing path from the biosignal transmission in the sensor applied on the body up to its conversion to a, usually electric, signal.
Some biosignals arise in the course of the body’s vital functions while others map these functions that convey physiological data to an observer. It is highly instructive how sound and light beams interact with biological tissues, yielding acoustic and optic biosignals, respectively. Discussed phenomena teach a lot about the physics of sound and physics of light (as engineering sciences), and, on the other hand, biology and physiology (as live sciences). The highly interdisciplinary nature of biosignals and biomedical sensors is obviously a challenge. However, it is a rewarding challenge after it has been coped with in a strategic way, as offered here. The book is intended to have the presence to answer intriguing “Aha!” questions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biomedical Signals and Sensors II
Book Subtitle: Linking Acoustic and Optic Biosignals and Biomedical Sensors
Authors: Eugenijus Kaniusas
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45106-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45105-2Published: 11 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50778-0Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45106-9Published: 03 March 2015
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 217
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Human Physiology, Medical and Radiation Physics, Signal, Image and Speech Processing