Biolectricty

Barr Roger C. Plonsey Robert

ISBN 10: 0306462354 / ISBN 13: 9780306462351

Published by Springer

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pp. xvi + 389.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biolectricty
• Publisher: Springer
• ISBN 10: 0306462354
• ISBN 13: 9780306462351
• Condition: Used

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Synopsis

In the first edition of "Bioelectricity", Plonsey and Barr provided an introduction to electrophysiology following a quantitative approach. In this second edition they address new discoveries in the field of ion channels. It describes the principles of electrical fields, using basic principles from science and engineering while taking the biological applications into consideration. This book thus provides an introduction to the quantitative description of underlying electrophysiology with illustrative application to cardiac electrophysiology and functional electrical stimulation. This book can be used as a bridge to more advanced texts, particularly those that stress a quantitative approach.

Review

Praise for Previous Editions:

"This fine text, by two well-known bioengineering professors at Duke University, is an introduction to electrophysiology aimed at engineering students. Most of its chapters cover basic topics in electrophysiology: the electrical properties of the cell membrane, action potentials, cable theory, the neuromuscular junction, extracellular fields, and cardiac electrophysiology. The authors discuss many topics that are central to biophysics and bioengineering [and] the quantitative methods [they] teach will surely be productive in the future."

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology

"The authors’ goal in producing this book was to provide an introductory text to electrophysiology, based on a quantitative approach. In attempting to achieve this goal, therefore, the authors have opened the book with a useful, and digestible, introduction to various aspects of the mathematics relevant to this field, including vectors, introduction to Laplace, Gauss’s theorem, and Green’s theorem. This book will be useful for students in medical physics and biomedical engineering wishing to enter the field of electrophysiological investigation. It will also be helpful for biologists and physiologists who wish to understand the mathematical treatment of the processes and signals at the center of the interesting interdisciplinary field."

Medical and Biomedical Engineering and Computing