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Biomedical instrumentation and measurements
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“Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements” (Second edition) by L. Cromwell, F. J. We&e!! and E. A. Pfeiffer, Prentice-Hall Inc., New Jersey, U.S.A., 1980, ISBN o-13-076448-5. 5lO+xvi pp. (214.25). Most physicians and surgeons, certainly those with day-to-day responsibility for treating patients, tend to drift into handling diagnostic and therapeutic gadgets, with a very patchy idea of the basic theory behind their design and construction. Doubtless this is why equipment is bought in such a haphazard way and so often never seems to work properly after its first repair. For such people this book is to be thoroughly recommended as a reference manual, explaining both the basic data to be measured and the machine assemblies to do the measuring. It is very comprehensive and covers cardiology, respiratory function, electroencephalography and electromyography, intensive-care monitoring, bio-telemetry, radiology and radio-isotopes, clinical laboratory equipment, and, to be thoroughly up-to-date, computer applications to instrumentation, including the use of microprocessors. Moreover, the first four chapters deal with general aspects of instrumentation, including the use of transducers and electrodes. So for anyone looking for a concise lucid account of a topic like cardiac pacemakers, EEG measurements or cofnputerised axial tomography, this is the answer. Undoubtedly there are some minor misprints, and the purist might be slightly irritated at some of the medical simplification which are obviously made with non-graduates (medical) in mind. But these are very minor quibbles. The price is admittedly rather daunting, so potential buyers will no doubt browse carefully before making up their minds. J. H. MITCHELL
Medical Imaging Techniques (Monograph No. 28), edited by B. W. Watson, Peter Peregrinus, London, 1979 (fl4.50 in the U.K., f 17.00 elsewhere), This is the latest volume in a series of monographs on Medical Electronics and consists of monographs 28-33 which are devoted to Medical Imaging Tech531 Int. J. Bio-M&al comprfing (11)(1980)531-532 @I Elsevier/Nortb-Holland Scientific Publishers Ltd.
REVIEWS
“Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements” (Second edition) by L. Cromwell, F. J. We&e!! and E. A. Pfeiffer, Prentice-Hall Inc., New Jersey, U.S.A., 1980, ISBN o-13-076448-5. 5lO+xvi pp. (214.25). Most physicians and surgeons, certainly those with day-to-day responsibility for treating patients, tend to drift into handling diagnostic and therapeutic gadgets, with a very patchy idea of the basic theory behind their design and construction. Doubtless this is why equipment is bought in such a haphazard way and so often never seems to work properly after its first repair. For such people this book is to be thoroughly recommended as a reference manual, explaining both the basic data to be measured and the machine assemblies to do the measuring. It is very comprehensive and covers cardiology, respiratory function, electroencephalography and electromyography, intensive-care monitoring, bio-telemetry, radiology and radio-isotopes, clinical laboratory equipment, and, to be thoroughly up-to-date, computer applications to instrumentation, including the use of microprocessors. Moreover, the first four chapters deal with general aspects of instrumentation, including the use of transducers and electrodes. So for anyone looking for a concise lucid account of a topic like cardiac pacemakers, EEG measurements or cofnputerised axial tomography, this is the answer. Undoubtedly there are some minor misprints, and the purist might be slightly irritated at some of the medical simplification which are obviously made with non-graduates (medical) in mind. But these are very minor quibbles. The price is admittedly rather daunting, so potential buyers will no doubt browse carefully before making up their minds. J. H. MITCHELL
Medical Imaging Techniques (Monograph No. 28), edited by B. W. Watson, Peter Peregrinus, London, 1979 (fl4.50 in the U.K., f 17.00 elsewhere), This is the latest volume in a series of monographs on Medical Electronics and consists of monographs 28-33 which are devoted to Medical Imaging Tech531 Int. J. Bio-M&al comprfing (11)(1980)531-532 @I Elsevier/Nortb-Holland Scientific Publishers Ltd.