Sensors are the eyes, ears, and more, of the modern engineered product or system-including the living human organism. This authoritative reference work, part of Momentum Press's new Sensors Technology Series, edited by Joe Watson, will offer a comprehensive review of biomedical sensors and their associated instrumentation systems now commonly used in modern medicine. Readers will find invaluable data and guidance on a wide variety of sensors used in biomedical applications, from fluid flow sensors, to ultrasound sensors, to chemical analysis sensors. New developments in biomaterials-based sensors that mimic natural bio systems will be covered as well, and the reader will find ample references throughout for further reading and research.
Sensors Technology Series Editor-in-Chief's Preface
Preface
1 Biomedical Sensors: Temperature Sensor Technology
2 Flow Sensors for Liquids
3 Flow Sensors for Respiratory Gases
4 Biomedical Sensors oflonizing Radiation
INDEX
Professor Deric Powell Jones, BSc DIC PhD was born in Monmouthshire, South Wales, and received the degrees of BSc in physics and PhD in the super- conductivity of alloys from Imperial College, London. He worked as a medical physicist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and then as a lecturer at the Medical School. During more than twenty-five years spent at St. Bartholomew's he became a reader in the University of London and head of Medical Electronics and Physics in the Medical School. His research interesrs include the application of optoelectronic techniques in anesthesia and surgery and also the development of new techniques for physiological measurements in respiration and ophthalmology He is a fellow of the UK Institute of Physics and of the UK Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and a chartered engineer and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Professor Jones is currently affiliated to the Biomedical Engineering Department at City University, London.
