Introduction to biomedical engineering biomechanics and bioelectricity. Part II /
Intended as an introduction to the field of biomedical engineering, this book covers the topics of biomechanics (Part I) and bioelectricity (Part II). Each chapter emphasizes a fundamental principle or law, such as Darcy's Law, Poiseuille's Law, Hooke's Law, Starling's law, lever...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
c2009.
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering (Online),
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| Online Access: | Abstract with links to full text |
Table of Contents:
- Ohm's law: current, voltage and resistance
- Introduction
- Charge
- Electric field
- Current
- Voltage
- Ohm's law
- Fluid analogies
- Sign conventions for voltage and current
- Resistivity of bulk materials
- Diodes and other non-Ohmic circuit elements
- Power loss in resistors
- Problems
- Kirchhoff 's voltage and current laws: circuit analysis
- Introduction
- Kirchhoff 's voltage law (KVL)
- Kirchhoff 's current law (KCL)
- Resistive circuit analysis using the branch current method
- Problems
- Operational amplifiers
- Introduction
- Operational amplifiers
- Dependent sources
- Some standard op amp circuits
- Inverting amplifier
- Noninverting amplifier
- Voltage follower
- Problems
- Coulomb's law, capacitors and the fluid/electrical analogy
- Coulomb's law
- Capacitors
- Flow into and out of capacitors
- Analogy between fluid and electrical circuits
- Scaling the analog pairs
- Problems
- Series and parallel combinations of resistors and capacitors
- Introduction
- Resistors in series
- Resistors in parallel
- Capacitors in series
- Capacitors in parallel
- Voltage divider
- Current divider
- Problems
- Thevenin equivalent circuits and first-order (RC) time constants
- Thevenin equivalent circuits
- Electrical behavior of capacitors
- RC time constants
- Problems
- Nernst potential: cell membrane equivalent circuit
- Introduction
- Cell membrane structure
- Mechanisms of transport
- Nernst potential
- Equivalent circuit for the membrane
- Action potentials
- Problems
- Fourier transforms: alternating currents (AC) and the frequency domain
- Introduction, sinusoids
- Fourier series for arbitrary repeating waveforms
- FFT: calculating the discrete Fourier transform
- Problems
- Major project
- Background (and preliminaries)
- Modeling the cardiovascular system
- Overview of major project
- Notebook requirements
- Grading and checkoff dates
- Our model
- Approximations
- Calculation of R and C values
- Matlab model
- Electrical circuit analog
- Bibliography.