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Summary
Summary
While most books contain some information on related sensors topics, they are limited in their scope on biomedical sensors. Sensors in Biomedical Applications: Fundamentals, Design, Technology and Applications is the first systematized book to concentrate on all available and potential sensor devices of biomedical applications!
Sensors in Biomedical Applications presents information on sensor types in a comprehensive and easy to understand format. The first four chapters concentrate on the basics, lending an understanding to operation and design principles of sensor elements. Introduced are sections on: basic terms, sensor technologies, sensor structure and sensing effects. The next three chapters describe application possibilities: physical sensors, sensors for measuring chemical qualities and biosensors. Finally, a chapter covers biocompatability, in addition to an appendix and glossary.
Sensors in Biomedical Applications is the definitive reference book for a broad audience. All physicists, chemists and biologists interested in the chemical basis and effects of sensors will find this work invaluable. Biomedical engineers and sensor specialists will find the text useful in its pointed analysis of special design, processing and application problems. Physicians practicing with diagnostic tools will want to see the possibilities and limits of biomedical sensors. Finally, students of all of the above areas who wish to learn more about the basics of biomedical sensors need to have this book.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
| Chapter 1. Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1.1 Sensors and Their Characteristics | p. 1 |
| 1.2 Integrated and Smart Sensors: Up-to-Date Requirements | p. 5 |
| 1.3 Special Requirements of Biomedical Applications | p. 6 |
| 1.4 References and Supplementary Reading | p. 9 |
| Chapter 2. Sensor Technologies | p. 11 |
| 2.1 Monolithic Semiconductor Technologies | p. 11 |
| 2.2 Ceramics | p. 18 |
| 2.3 Thin- and Thick-Film Technologies | p. 20 |
| 2.4 Processing of Polymer Films | p. 26 |
| 2.5 Optical-Fiber Technologies | p. 30 |
| 2.6 References | p. 33 |
| Chapter 3. Basic Sensor Structures | p. 35 |
| 3.1 Impedance-Type Structures | p. 36 |
| 3.2 Semiconductor Devices as Sensors | p. 36 |
| 3.3 Sensors Based on Acoustic-Wave Propagation | p. 40 |
| 3.4 Calorimetric Sensors | p. 45 |
| 3.5 Electrochemical Cells as Sensors | p. 47 |
| 3.6 Sensors with Optical Waveguides | p. 55 |
| 3.7 References | p. 61 |
| Chapter 4. Sensing Effects | p. 65 |
| 4.1 Thermoresistive Effects | p. 65 |
| 4.2 Thermoelectric Effect | p. 68 |
| 4.3 Other Thermoeffects Used in Sensors | p. 69 |
| 4.4 Piezoelectric Effect | p. 70 |
| 4.5 Electrets in Capacitive Transducers | p. 72 |
| 4.6 Pyroelectric Effect | p. 73 |
| 4.7 Piezoresistive Effect | p. 75 |
| 4.8 Hall Effect | p. 76 |
| 4.9 Further Methods of Sensing Magnetic Fields | p. 77 |
| 4.10 Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) | p. 77 |
| 4.11 Radiation Induced Effects and Related Sensor Structures | p. 79 |
| 4.12 Adsorption and Absorption of Chemical Species | p. 85 |
| 4.13 Selective Molecular Receptors | p. 87 |
| 4.14 Permeation through Membranes | p. 88 |
| 4.15 Ion-Selective Membranes | p. 90 |
| 4.16 Chemical-Optical Transduction Effects | p. 91 |
| 4.17 References and Supplementary Reading | p. 96 |
| Chapter 5. Physical Sensors and Their Applications in Biomedicine | p. 99 |
| 5.1 Measuring Temperature | p. 99 |
| 5.2 Other Applications of Temperature Sensors | p. 108 |
| 5.3 Mechanical Sensors in Biomedicine | p. 112 |
| 5.4 Sensors in Ultrasound Imaging | p. 124 |
| 5.5 Detectors in Radiology | p. 132 |
| 5.6 Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Field Sensors | p. 144 |
| 5.7 Further Applications of Physical Sensors | p. 151 |
| 5.8 References | p. 162 |
| Chapter 6. Sensors for Measuring Chemical Quantities in Biomedicine | p. 169 |
| 6.1 Sensors for Monitoring Blood Gases and pH | p. 169 |
| 6.2 Optical Oximetry | p. 198 |
| 6.3 Other Applications of Chemical Sensors | p. 208 |
| 6.4 References | p. 219 |
| Chapter 7. Biosensors | p. 223 |
| 7.1 Enzymatic Biosensors | p. 226 |
| 7.2 Affinity Biosensors | p. 261 |
| 7.3 Living Biosensors | p. 281 |
| 7.4 Direct Methods for Monitoring Bioactive Compounds | p. 292 |
| 7.5 References | p. 298 |
| Chapter 8. Biocompatibility of Sensors | p. 307 |
| 8.1 References | p. 310 |
| Chapter 9. Summary and Future Trends | p. 313 |
| 9.1 References | p. 321 |
| Appendix 1 | p. 323 |
| Appendix 2 | p. 325 |
| Appendix 3 | p. 327 |
| Appendix 4 | p. 329 |
| Appendix 5 | p. 331 |
| Appendix 6 | p. 333 |
| Glossary | p. 337 |
| Index | p. 341 |
| About the Author | p. 349 |
