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Biomedical Engineering Principles is a fundamentally unique introduction in biomedical engineering. It achieves a synthesis of engineering information and data from the life sciences to describe transport problems in the human body in terms of principles most familiar to engineers. No other book is available which offers a quantitative treatment of biomedical transport processes at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level. After a review of pertinent historical developments in medicine, a basic quantitative characterization of the human body – stressing the physical, chemical, and flow properties of blood – is given. Next, the author examines the modeling of fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer processes in the body. A more detailed treatment of mass transfer across biological membranes, especially the kidneys and lungs, is then presented. Finally, the volume considers two major developments within biomedical engineering, artificial kidneys and blood oxygenators.
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