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Biomechatronics in Medicine and Healthcare

Editat de Raymond Tong Kaiyu
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 aug 2011
This book presents experts’ insights into the emerging technologies and developments that are being or will be utilized in the medical profession to meet a variety of clinical challenges. It demonstrates the application of biomechatronics to provide better care and service. It also incorporates new and exciting multidisciplinary areas of research across the medical and engineering fields, such as robotic therapeutic training system for stroke rehabilitation, exoskeletons for daily activities on persons with disability, functional electrical stimulation, and wireless active capsule endoscopy. Each chapter provides substantial background material relevant to the particular subject.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789814241618
ISBN-10: 981424161X
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: 99 b/w images and 35 color images
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Jenny Stanford Publishing
Colecția Jenny Stanford Publishing

Public țintă

Academic and Postgraduate

Cuprins

Preface.  Contents.  An Introduction to Biomechatronics.  What is Biomechatronics?  Why Study Biomechatronics?  Conclusions.  A Wearable Exoskeletal Rehabilitation Robot for Interactive Therapy.  Introduction.  What is Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation?  Review of Rehabilitation Robots for the Upper-Extremity.  Robotic Upper-extremity Repetitive Trainer–RUPERT.  Robot Controller and Therapy Modes.  A Virtual Reality-Based Biofeedback Interface.  Clinical Study.  Conclusion.  Development of Gait-Assisted Robot WPAL (Wearable Power-Assist Locomotor) for Paraplegia.  Introduction.  Overview of Gait Reconstruction of Sci With Orthoses.  Introduction of Walking Ability and Prediction of Walking Ability of Primewalk.  Limitation of Orthosis and Future of Robotics.  Advantages to Introduce Robotics to Sci Gait Reconstruction.  Conclusion.  Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation of Hand Function After Stroke with the HapticKnob and the Hand CARE.  Introduction.   Hand function after stroke.  Robot-assisted Rehabilitation of Hand Function.  Promises of robot-assisted therapy of hand function.  Conclusions.  A Novel Continuous Intention-Driven Rehabilitation Robot and Its Training Effectiveness.  Introduction.  Rehabilitation Robotic System with Continuous Intention Driven Control.  Evaluation on Training Effectiveness.  Conclusions.  Future Studies.  Acknowledgement.  Hand Rehabilitation Robot using Electromyography.  Introduction to Rehabilitation Robots.  Design of the Hand Rehabilitation Robot.  Experiment Procedure.  Pilot Clinical Evaluation of Hand Functions of ELDERLY and Stroke Subjects.  Conclusion.  Acknowledgement.  Functional Electrical Stimulation Leg Exercise: From Technology to Therapy.  Introduction.  Exercise for People with Neurological Disabilities.  Electrical Stimulation of Muscles.  Fes-Evoked Exercise.  Technical Development of Fes Exercise Machines.  Conclusions.  Combined Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) and Robotic System Driven by User Intention for Post-Stroke Wrist Rehabilitation.  Introduction.  The Combined Fes-Robot System.  System Performance Evaluation.  Fes-Robot Assisted Wrist Training.  Conclusions.  Acknowledgement.  Development of Robots for Active Rehabilitation of the upper Limbs on the Transverse Plan for Stroke Patients.  Introduction.  Our Planar Rehab Robot for Upper Limbs.  Evaluation of Benefits for Rehabilitation with Robots.  Future Development.  Conclusions.  Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Systems and Augmented Feedback.  Introduction.  Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy.  Robotic Devices.  Augmented Feedback.  Conclusions.  Isokinetic Exercise Machine Using High Performance MR Fluid Brake and Iso-Contraction Exercise.  Introduction.  Conventional Isokinetic Exercise & Proposed Iso-contraction Exercise.  Experimental Setup.  Isokinetic Exercise.  Iso-Contraction Exercise.  Conclusions.  Robotic-Assisted Technology for Medical Training Purposes.  Motor Control and Learning.  Recent Advances in Medical Training.  Assessment of Clinical Competence as an Approach to Provide Quantitative Information.  Reproduction of Task Conditions as an Approach to Provide Multimodal Feedback.  Conclusions.  Wireless Active Capsule Endoscope: State-of-the-Art and Challenges.  Introduction.  Major Working Wireless Capsule Endoscope.  Wireless Active Capsule Endoscope.  Conclusion and Future Prospect.  Color Inserts.  Index.

Recenzii

"This book introduces the biomechatronics in rehabilitation engineering. It covers from the basic principles to various applications which is very helpful for students and people working in this area."
—Prof. Shangkai Guo, Tsinghua University

Notă biografică

Dr. Raymond Tong Kaiyu received his PhD in bioengineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, in 1998. He joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999 and the Department of Health Technology and Informatics as an associate professor in 2008. His research interests include rehabilitation robot and functional electrical stimulation system for persons who have suffered stroke. His research and innovation have received Faculty Award on Research and Scholarly Activities(FHSS, PolyU) in 2009; Grand Award from HKIE innovation awards for young members(The Hong Kong Institute of Engineers) in 2008; Gold award from Brussels Eureka 2007 (also known as the 56th World Exhibition of Innovation, Research and Industrial Innovation); Gold award from the 5th China International Invention Exhibition 2004; and Certificate of Merit in Consumer Product Design from the Hong Kong Award for Industry 2003. He teaches subjects related to bioinstrumentation, medical devices, clinical electrophysiology, medical device regulatory (FDA, ISO, MDD), and intellectual property (Patent).

Descriere

This book presents experts’ insights into the emerging technologies and developments that are being or will be utilized in the medical profession to meet a variety of clinical challenges. It demonstrates the application of biomechatronics to provide better care and service.