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Medical Devices and Data

Technology to Instrument the Body and its Interpretation

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Buch | Softcover
188 Seiten
2026
CRC Press (Verlag)
9781032446950 (ISBN)
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The miniaturization of electronics has driven innovation in medical instruments. This text asks: how do these new instruments work, how do they interpret their data, and when do they err? It also identifies key factors driving innovation. This text is accessible for anyone who would like to understand non-invasive medical instruments.
The miniaturization of electronics has driven a huge innovation in medical instruments. Medical-grade systems are now able to be sent home with patients, alongside small, portable sports, stress and lifestyle monitoring devices.

The core ideas of these devices originated 130 years ago but they are now made cheaply and readily available in consumer devices like smart watches as well as in new diagnostic instruments.

Medical Devices and Data: Technology to Instrument the Body and its Interpretation focuses on three key questions: how do these new instruments work, how do they interpret their data, and when do they err? It also identifies the key factors that are driving this innovation further.

This text is written for those who would like to understand non-invasive medical instruments in more detail. It is written in an accessible manner and no formal background in science, engineering or medicine is required. Some equations are used where necessary, but calculus is avoided. The book explains the key ideas behind the advanced techniques used.

All data, software and figures used in this book are made available online alongside a set of questions for each chapter, for those who wish to use this as a textbook for a course on medical instrumentation.

Key features:



Explores the design and use of medical instrumentation, seeking to explain the data measured and how it relates to body processes.
Discusses what these devices mean: modern instruments give a whole range of indications: from basic (heart rate) to much more complicated (sleep quality score). For users of these devices, this book hope to shed some light on the information available.
Details when results can be trusted and how to cast a critical eye over the accuracy and interpretation of these instruments.

Andy Adler is a Canada Research Professor in biomedical engineering in Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests broadly in the area of biomedical measurement and robust data analysis. He is author of ten book chapters, four patents, eighty eight journal and 190 conference papers. A main focus of his work is technologies to imaging of the body using small applied electrical currents. He has been active in translation of the technology to the bedside, working with start-up and established med-tech companies. He is the editor of Electrical Impedance Tomography, Second Edition (CRC Press, 2021).

Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Beautiful Models, Chapter 3 Oxygen Transport, Chapter 4 Measuring Heart Rate, Chapter 5 Uncertainty, Chapter 6 Ethics and Medical Devices, Chapter 7 Weighing Scales, Chapter 8 Blood Pressure, Chapter 9 Blood Pressure Measurement, Chapter 10 Optical Measurements, Chapter 11 Electrophysiology, Chapter 12 Electrocardiogram, Chapter 13 The Body Electric, Chapter 14 Breath of Life, Chapter 15 Ultrasound, Chapter 16 Stress, Chapter 17 Into the Digital, Chapter 18 Filtering, Chapter 19 Learning Machines, Chapter 20 Heart-Rate Variability, Chapter 21 Weird Problems, Chapter 22 Mean Data? Peak Data?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.7.2026
Zusatzinfo 9 Tables, black and white; 63 Line drawings, black and white; 40 Halftones, black and white; 103 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Angewandte Physik
ISBN-13 9781032446950 / 9781032446950
Zustand Neuware
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