Seamless Healthcare Monitoring Advancements in Wearable, Attachable, and Invisible Devices

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Synopsis

This book shares the knowledge of active and prestigious worldwide researchers and scholars in the field of healthcare monitoring as authors investigate historical developments, summarize latest advancements, and envision future prospects on wearable, attachable, and invisible devices that monitor diverse physiological information. The coverage of the book spans multiple disciplines, from biomechanics, to bioelectricity, biochemistry, biophysics and biomaterials. There is also wide coverage of various physical and chemical quantities such as electricity, pressure, flow, motion, force, temperature, gases, and biomarkers. Each chapter explores the background of a specific monitoring device, as well as its physical and chemical principles and instrumentation, signal processing and data analysis, achieved outcomes and application scenarios, and future research topics. There are chapters on:Electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, and electromyogramsMeasurement of flow phenomenonLatest wearable technologies for the quantification of human motionVarious forms of wearable thermometersMonitoring of gases and chemical substances produced during metabolism…and more!This book is appropriate and accessible for students and scientists, as well as researchers in biomedical engineering, computer engineers, healthcare entrepreneurs, administrative officers, policy makers, market vendors, and healthcare personnel. It helps to provide us with insights into future endeavors, formulate innovative businesses and services, and will help improve people’s health and quality of life.

Book details

Author:
Toshiyo Tamura, Wenxi Chen
ISBN:
9783319693620
Related ISBNs:
9783319693613
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2018-10-14
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
Springer International Publishing, Cham 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Medicine, Nonfiction, Technology