Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics (Biomedical Engineering) [Paperback]

S. Grimnes (Author), O. G. Martinsen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 19, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0123032601 | ISBN-13: 978-0123032607 | Edition: 1

Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics is unique in providing all the information needed to follow the interdisciplinary subjects of bioimpedance and bioelectricity without having to be a graduate student in the relevant fields. For the first time, one book offers the broadest possible introduction to all use and effects of electrical fields in tissue, dealing with the most basic chemical and physical functions of life. Very few books have covered the dielectric and electrochemical side of the subject, despite its importance; Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics does. It also includes the electrical engineering concepts of network theory and the complex math needed. Up to now, there has been work done by physicists and engineers on one side, doctors and biologists on the other, this book fills the gap, providing the knowledge for both groups.

Key Features
* is one complete source and reference guide to a complex and disparate field
* gives the reader the latest research and applications
* is highly illustrated, with an indepth explanation of all mathematics

Editorial Reviews

Review

.an excellent reference for students and researchers in those areas that make use of the concepts of bioimpedance and bioelectricity . (it provides), in a single work, an opportunity .to understand and compare the various methods of bioimpedance and bioelectricity measurement, as well as the several models used to describe and interpret the electrical behavior of biological tissues.
Review of the First Edition, Annals of Biomedical Engineering --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics is unique in providing all the information needed to follow the interdisciplinary subjects of bioelectricity and bioimpedance, without having to be a graduate student in all the relevant fields. For the first time, one book offers the broadest possible introduction to all use and effects of electrical fields in tissue, dealing with the most basic chemical and physical functions of life. Very few books have covered the dielectric and electrochemical side of the subject, despite its importance. This book does so, starting from the duality of the electrical properties of tissue. Grimnes and Martinsen have succeeded in bringing together the physical and medical approaches, and show how using models from both fields can elucidate the whole subject.


Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics:

* is one complete source and reference guide to a complex and disparate field
* gives the reader the latest research and applications
* is highly illustrated, with an indepth explanation of all mathematics

Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics will be essential reading for graduate and postgraduate students in biomedical engineering or biophysics. Scientific personnel in research institutes and industrial research departments (producing medical and electrochemical instrumentation) will find the book invaluable. Medical doctors in neurology, cardiology, dermatology, electrophysiology, cell physiology and clinical chemistry will also find this a complete reference tool.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (April 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0123032601
• ISBN-13: 978-0123032607
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,646,982 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #10 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Bioelectricity

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars for an experimentalist in biology or physics, May 22, 2006

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This review is from: Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics (Biomedical Engineering) (Paperback)

Instead of delving into research papers on this subject, the authors offer this book. It is a specialised and useful summary of what is known about bioelectricity. The circuits are simple, at least to an electric engineer. But then, she would be unlikely to know the biological aspects covered here.

The level of physics is also straightforward. Simple dieletric models and usages of Maxwell's Equations. Nothing to scare off the physics student.

Significant portions of the book are addressed to the experimenter. Giving help about instrumentation and designs. Plus descriptions of the types of data you are likely to get, and how to analyse these.

Well suited for an experimentalist in either biology or physics.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Probably not for clinicians, March 8, 2007

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This review is from: Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics (Biomedical Engineering) (Paperback)

Although the book is intended for persons in the biological sciences it is very unlikely to be of much help to those in medical and clinical practice hoping to understand better the applications and interpretation of bioimpedance.