Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics

by Orjan G. Martinsen, Arto Heiskanen

Overview

Key Features Second edition of this well regarded tet, with increased emphasis on bioelectricity, Clear explanation and development of key principles and mathematics to make the subject accessible to non-Physicists, New coverage of excitable tissue electrical properties, passive tissue electrical properties, geometrical analysis, dipole-dipole analytical solutions for transfer impedance, broader coverage of Cole theory, Geselowitz theory and multivariate statistical models, Clinical examples and problems to reinforce understanding, with solutions for adopting instructors from http://textbooks.elsevier.com

Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics is a complete introduction to the use and effects of electricity in tissue. Written for student and professional biomedical engineers and those working in biological and medical sciences and physics, it enables readers to understand and compare the various methods of bioimpedance and bioelectricity measurement and the models that can be used to describe and interpret the electrical behavior of biological tissues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128191071
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/24/2023
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ørjan G. Martinsen received his M.Sc. and PhD in electronic engineering from the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo, with both of his theses focusing on the electrical properties of human skin. Since completing his PhD in 1995, Martinsen has held a permanent position in the same department and currently leads the electronics research section and is Coordinator of the Oslo Bioimpedance Group. As well as his work at the university, Martinsen also holds a part time research position in the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Engineering at Oslo University Hospital, his main research interest being electrical bioimpedance.

With Sverre Grimnes he is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance (www.bioimpedance.net).

Sverre Grimnes graduated in 1963 as an electronic engineer from the Technical University of Trondheim. He spent four years at SI, Oslo followed by a year at Sorbonne in Paris before moving to the University of Oslo’s Department of Chemistry. From 1973-2001 he was Head of the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering at Rikshospitalet and since 1984 has also been Professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo.

His research interests include electrical and physiological properties of human skin, patient electrical safety, and bioimpedance basic theory and instrumentation.

Professor Grimnes authored a hugely successful Norwegian book series on Medical Technology and has been awarded the Herman P Schwan Award and the Kings Gold Medal of Merit.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Electrolytics
3. Dielectrics
4. Passive Tissue Electrical Properties
5. Excitable Tissue Electrical Properties
6. Geometrical Analysis
7. Instrumentation and Measurement Data and Models
8. Selected Applications
9. History of Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This new edition of a well-established classic is detailed, accurate and packed with information.

Editorial Reviews

Physicists (U. of Oslo) Grimnes and Marinsen became frustrated at the amount of time and effort they had to expend to find the basic information about bioimpedence, and so produced an introductory textbook for graduate students in biomedical engineering and biophysics. They draw from the several disciplines that are needed to explain and explore the subject, and use a unified set of terms. Their emphasis is on systems with galvanic contact to the tissue, not so much on the interaction between tissue and electromagnetic fields and waves. They keep their treatment down to one volume by excluding magnetism, limiting themselves to sine wave and step function variables rather than embarking on a more general treatment by the theory of Laplace transforms, and limiting the number of application examples. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"…an excellent reference for students and researchers in those areas that make use of the concepts of bioimpedance and bioelectricity … (it provides), in a single work, an opportunity …to understand and compare the various methods of bioimpedance and bioelectricity measurement, as well as the several models used to describe and interpret the electrical behavior of biological tissues." —Review of the First Edition, Annals of Biomedical Engineering

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