This book contains 20 chapters, with figures and diagrams, that cover a broad topic within Biomedical Engineering.

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1. Biomedical equipment project


• 2. Patient and operator safety


• 3. Nerve propagation and muscle contraction


• 4. Cardiac electrophysiology ablation equipment


• 5. Pacemaker project


• 6. Arterial dynamics


• 7. Ventilatory mechanics measures


• 8. Dialysis equipment


• 9. Biosensors


• 10. Equipment for laboratory analysis


• 11. Electroencephalogram and states of consciousness


• 12. Organs and equipment for measuring balance


• 13. Virtual navigation for neurosurgery


• 14. Cochlear implants


• 15. Neural networks


• 16. Positron emission tomography (PET)


• 17. Medical images in a digital environment


• 18. Management of biomedical equipment


• 19. Laboratory practices

• Rafael Guarga


• Franco Simini


• Franco Simini


• Franco Simini


• Gustavo Brum


• Walter Reyes


• Julio Arzuaga et al.


• Ricardo Armentano


• Javier Hurtado and Franco Simini


• José Pedro Podestá and Liliana Gadola


• Juan Bussi


• Horacio Venturino


• Daniel Cibils


• Hamlet Suárez, Franco Simini and Pablo Musé


• Gregory Randall and Álvaro Gómez


• Mario Svirsky and Hamlet Suárez


• Eduardo Mizraji


• Henry Engler


• Jacques Fauquex


• Franco Simini and Alberto Gómez


• Santiago González, Jorge Lobo, Daniel Geido and Franco Simini