Overview

Fully updated throughout, this second edition of Physiology, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering provides a multidisciplinary understanding of biological phenomena and the instrumentation for monitoring these phenomena. Now split into two volumes, it provides a comprehensive introduction for undergraduate courses emphasizing the application of the physical sciences to human physiology in a medical context. Volume 1 tackles human biophysical physiology, while Volume 2 explores biomedical engineering and instrumentation. Developed from the authors’ courses in medical biophysics and biomedical instrumentation, this book shows how biophysics and biomedical engineering have advanced modern medicine. It brings together the physical principles underlying human physiological processes and the physical methods used to monitor these processes. Requiring mostly only basic mathematical knowledge, the text supplements mathematical formulae with qualitative explanations and illustrations to encourage an intuitive grasp on the processes discussed. Key Features: Offers a multidisciplinary approach to human biological systems and highlights the application of physics and engineering methods to medicine and biology. Gives readers a solid basis for understanding the physiological processes in the human body. Incorporates a range of numerical problems with worked solutions and provides MATLAB® and some Python code for advanced mathematical analysis of physiological and clinical monitoring systems.

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Author:   Andrew W. Wood (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) ,  Joseph Ciorciari ,  David Sly
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367567675

ISBN 10:   0367567679
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   17 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Volume 1: Human biophysical physiology 1. Introduction to Physiological Systems 2. Molecular Biophysics 3. Membrane Biophysics 4. Excitability and Synapses 5. Skeletal Muscle Biophysics 6. Cardiac Biophysics 7. Rheology of Blood 8. The Vascular System: Blood Flow Patterns in Various Parts of the Circulation 9. Respiratory Biophysics 10. Renal Biophysics and Dialysis 11. The Organisation of the Human Central Nervous System 12. The Biophysics of Sensation – General 13. Vision 14. Audition and Vestibular Sense 15. Chemical Senses Volume 2: Biomedical engineering and instrumentation 1. Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits for Biomedicine 2. Electrodes for Measuring Biogenic Electrical Activity 3. Cardiovascular System Monitoring 4. Respiratory Biophysics 5. Renal Biophysics and Dialysis 6. Cardiopulmonary Perfusion and Advanced Surgical Techniques 7. Physiological Signal Processing 8. Bioelectrical Signals: The Electroencephalogram 9. Magnetic Stimulation and Biomagnetic Signals 10. Medical Imaging 11. Microscopy & Biophotonics 12. Physiological Modelling 13. Biomaterials and Biomechanics 14. Biosensors and Emerging Technologies

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Andrew W. Wood is an Adjunct Professor of Biophysics at Swinburne University of Technology. Dr. Wood is now retired but continues research activities through various collaborations, mostly concerning the safety of “Next G” telecommunications. His research interests include the health effects associated with nonionizing radiation, cellular neuroscience, fluorescence microscopy, and mathematical modelling. Joseph Ciorciari is an Associate Professor of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. David Sly is a neuroscientist and Adjunct Industry Fellow at Swinburne. He is a Chief Operating Officer of Research at the Ear Science Institute Australia.

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