Perspectives in Biomedical Engineering : Proceedings of a Symposium Organised in Association with the Biological Engineering Society and Held in the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, June 1972

Work in Bioengineering commenced at the University of Strathclyde in the Department of Mechanical Engineering some seventeen years ago in close cooperation with surgeons and physicians in Glasgow's teaching hospitals. Multidisciplinary medical/engineering project teams drawn from several of the relevant specialties worked in the University engineering laboratories, the hospital wards, the operating theatres and the medical research departments. The activity received organisational recognition in 1962 by the formation of a Medical Research Council Biomechanics Group. In the past ten years this has grown into an independent research and post-graduate teaching department-the Bioengineering Unit. The Unit is now in its new building, the Wolfson Centre which was funded by the Wolfson Trust and formally opened by Lady Wolfson on June 21st, 1972. To commemorate the occasion a Symposium was organised in association with the Biological Engineering Society during which recent advances and perspectives of developments world wide were discussed in the main areas of the Unit's activities. Participation was gratifying: 256 attended, consisting of representatives from Belgium, Front Matter....Pages i-xx Opening Remarks and Welcome to Participants....Pages 1-2 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Heart Replacement and Circulatory Support....Pages 5-14 Cardiac Assist Devices, Total Artificial Heart and Unconventional Dialysis....Pages 15-20 Development and Testing of Prosthetic Heart Valves: Cardiovascular Simulation and Life Support Systems....Pages 21-28 Perspectives in Cardiovascular Analysis and Assistance....Pages 29-33 Maintenance Haemodialysis and Preventive Measures in Renal Disease....Pages 35-38 Recent Trends in Biocompatible Materials and Microcapsular Absorbents for Kidney Function Replacement....Pages 39-43 The Risk in Estimating Biocompatibility....Pages 45-48 Comments on Haemodialysis....Pages 49-53 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Biomechanics in the Clinic....Pages 63-66 Clinical and Biomechanical Aspects of Current Prosthetic Practice....Pages 67-72 Tradeoffs at the Man-Machine Interface in Cybernetic Prostheses/Orthoses....Pages 73-77 Modular Concepts in Prosthetics/Orthotics....Pages 79-80 Footprint Patterns During Walking....Pages 81-90 Design Aspects of Endo-Prostheses for the Lower Limb....Pages 91-94 Biomechanical Aspects of Orthopaedic Implants....Pages 95-101 The Lubrication of Human Joints....Pages 103-107 A Note on Weeping Lubrication....Pages 109-110 Intravital Measurement of Forces in the Human Spine: Their Clinical Implications for Low Back Pain and Scoliosis....Pages 111-119 Recent Measurements of the Intra-Abdominal Pressure....Pages 121-122 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 Failure Characteristics of Bone and Bone Tissue....Pages 131-134 A Note on the Histology of Cement Lines....Pages 135-138 The Structure of the Bone Cartilage Junction....Pages 139-145 Bioengineering Orientated Studies on the Structure of Human Hip Joint Cartilage....Pages 147-152 Variations in the Physico-Chemical and Mechanical Properties of Human Articular Cartilage....Pages 153-160 Motion in the Hip: The Relationship of Split Line Patterns to Surface Velocities....Pages 161-164 Stress-Strain-Time Relations for Soft Connective Tissues....Pages 165-172 Preliminary Studies on Mechanochemical-structure Relationships in Connective Tissues Using Enzymolysis Techniques....Pages 173-176 Preliminary Results on Immobilisation-Induced Stiffness of Monkey Knee Joints and Posterior Capsule....Pages 177-179 Biomechanics of the Oral Tissues....Pages 181-185 Multi-Component Materials....Pages 187-192 Dynamic Characteristics of the Human Body....Pages 193-202 Estimation of the Inertial Property Distribution of the Human Torso from Segmented Cadaveric Data....Pages 203-213 Dynamic Characteristics of the Tissues of the Head....Pages 215-222 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 Comments on Clinical Measurements....Pages 233-234 Sonar....Pages 235-240 Kinetography and Its Application in Heart Studies....Pages 241-250 Displacement Cardiographic Studies of Ischaemic Heart Disease....Pages 251-253 Ballistocardiography: Promise and Practice....Pages 255-259 Multivariate Analysis in Medicine and Biology....Pages 261-265 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 Computer Processing of Electrocardiograms....Pages 267-271 Scan: A Data-Handling System for Use in Medical Research....Pages 273-278 Interactive Computing....Pages 279-280 Studies on Human Ocular Tremor....Pages 281-292 Intra-Partum Monitoring: An Obstetrician’s View and a Physicist’s Response....Pages 293-300 Summary Report of the Symposium Address....Pages 305-311 Back Matter....Pages 313-314