Population Balances in Biomedical Engineering: Segregation Through the Distribution of Cell States (McGraw-Hill's Biomedical Engineering)

The population balance modeling is a statistical approach for achieving accurate counts of any populations. It is an efficient way of counting traffic on roadways as well as to bacteria in lakes. In the biomedical world, it is used to count cell populations for the creation of biomaterials. Despite their undisputed accuracy, they have been underutilized for design and control purposes due to two main reasons: a) they are hard to solve and b) the functions that describe single-cell mechanisms and appear as parameters in these models are typically unknown. Population Balances in Biomedical Engineering: Segregation through the Distribution of Cell States offers a framework for developing and solving simple models that are essential to determining the distribution of properties of cell populations and analyzing their underlying dynamic behavior.This rigorous resource takes a quantitative approach to overcoming obstacles that researchers face in building models that accurately approximate properties and classification of various cell populations. Coverage includes: Population balancing techniques for filamentous organisms, Control points of steady-state and transient solutions, Methods for analysis of the underlying behavior of cellular systems.