TY - BOOK ID - 215138 TI - Advances in Medical Engineering PY - 2007 VL - 114 SN - 09308989 SN - 1280957913 9786610957910 3540687645 3540687637 3642088279 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Biomedical engineering KW - Research KW - Clinical engineering KW - Medical engineering KW - Bioengineering KW - Biophysics KW - Engineering KW - Medicine KW - Biomedical engineering. KW - Radiology, Medical. KW - Medical records KW - Computer vision. KW - Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. KW - Imaging / Radiology. KW - Health Informatics. KW - Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics. KW - Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. KW - Image Processing and Computer Vision. KW - Data processing. KW - Machine vision KW - Vision, Computer KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Image processing KW - Pattern recognition systems KW - EHR systems KW - EHR technology KW - EHRs (Electronic health records) KW - Electronic health records KW - Electronic medical records KW - EMR systems KW - EMRs (Electronic medical records) KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Clinical radiology KW - Radiology, Medical KW - Radiology (Medicine) KW - Medical physics KW - Medical care KW - Radiology. KW - Health informatics. KW - Optical data processing. KW - Lasers. KW - Photonics. KW - New optics KW - Optics KW - Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation KW - Masers, Optical KW - Optical masers KW - Light amplifiers KW - Light sources KW - Optoelectronic devices KW - Nonlinear optics KW - Optical parametric oscillators KW - Optical computing KW - Visual data processing KW - Bionics KW - Electronic data processing KW - Integrated optics KW - Photonics KW - Computers KW - Clinical informatics KW - Health informatics KW - Medical information science KW - Information science KW - Radiological physics KW - Physics KW - Radiation KW - Optical equipment KW - Data processing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:215138 AB - Continuous improvements in medical imaging together with advanced image processing algorithms, biomechanical simulations and interventional monitoring strategies lead to significant progress in computer-aided diagnosis, treatment planning and therapy. Navigation in image-guided surgery provides significant advantages in accuracy due to today’s sophisticated techniques of patient-data visualization in combination with the flexibility and precision of novel surgical tools like robots and laser scalpels. These tools give finer control over sensitive movements in diseased anatomical areas and therefore, allow more surgical procedures to be performed using minimally invasive techniques than ever before. In this book, research and development trends of physics, engineering, mathematics and computer sciences in biomedical engineering are presented. Contributions from industry, clinics, universities and research labs with foci on medical imaging (CT, MRT, US, PET, SPECT etc.), medical image processing (segmentation, registration, visualization etc.), computer-assisted surgery (medical robotics, navigation), biomechanics (motion analysis, accident research, computer in sports, ergonomics etc.), biomedical optics (OCT, soft-tissue optics, optical monitoring etc.) and laser medicine (tissue ablation, gas analytics, topometry etc.) give insight to recent engineering, clinical and mathematical studies. ER -