Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering Proceedings of the World Congres
New Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering will be an edited work taken from the 1st Annual World Congress of Chinese Biomedical Engineers - Taipei, Taiwan 2002. As the economy develops rapidly in China and the Asian-Pacific population merges into the global
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TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL BOOK SERIES Series Editor: Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey
Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering: Signal Processing and Physiological Systems Modeling Suresh R. Devasahayam Models of the Visual System Edited by George K. Hung and Kenneth J. Ciuffreda PDE and Level Sets: Algorithmic Approaches to Static and Motion Imagery Edited by Jasjit S. Suri and Swamy Laxminarayan Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering: Proceedings of the World Congress for Chinese Biomedical Engineers Edited by Ned H.C. Hwang and Savio L-Y. Woo
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Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering Proceedings of the World Congress for Chinese Biomedical Engineers
Edited by
Ned H. C. Hwang Division of Medical Engineering Research National Health Research Institutes Taipei, Taiwan
and
Savio L-Y. Woo Musculoskeletal Research Center University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Springer Science+Business Media, L L C
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frontiers in biomedical engineering/edited by Ned H . C . Hwang and Savio L . Y . Woo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-4739-2 I S B N 978-1-4419-8967-3 (eBook) D O I 10.1007/978-1-4419-8967-3 1. Biomedical engineering—Congresses. I. Hwang, Ned H . C. II. Woo, Savio L - Y . R856.A2F76 2003 610\28—dc22 2003061172
This volume includes a CD-ROM—attached to the back cover—on which some of the artwork from the volume appears in color. I S B N 978-1-4613-4739-2 ©2003 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in 2003 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2003
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Contributors Kai Nan An, Ph.D., Biomechanics Laboratory, Division of Orthopedic Research, Mayo Clinic/ Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota Susan Fugett Abu-Abs, Ph.D., Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota James F Antaki, Ph.D., Departments of Bioengineering and Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Harvey S Borovetz, Ph.D., Departments of Bioengineering and Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Edmund Y. S. Chao, Ph.D., O
