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Edited by a pioneer in the area of advanced semiconductor materials, this book contains contributions from experts who explore the development and use of sensors in biological and medical applications. It covers advanced sensing and communications, modeling of DNA-derivative architecture, and the use of enzyme and quartz crystal microbalance-based biosensors. The book also addresses biosensors in human behavior measurement, sweat rate wearable sensors, and the future of medical imaging, including developments in spatial and spectral resolution of semiconductor detectors. Contributors discuss application of high-resolution CdTe detectors in gamma ray imaging and recent advances in positron emission tomography technology.
List of contents
Part I: Sensors for Biological ApplicationsAdvanced Sensing and Communication in Biological World. Physics and Modeling of DNA-Derivative Architectures for Long-Wavelength Bio-Sensing. Label-Free Biosensors for Biomedical Applications: The Potential of Integrated Optical Biosensors and Silicon Photonics. Quartz Crystal Microbalance-Based Biosensors. Toward Printable Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies for Cell Analytics. Construction of Enzyme Biosensors Based on a Commercial Glucose Sensor Platform. Future Directions for Breath Sensors. Solid-State Gas Sensors for Clinical Diagnosis.
Part II: Sensors for Medical ApplicationsBiosensors and Human Behavior Measurement: A State-of-the-Art Review. Sweat Rate Wearable Sensors. Future of Medical Imaging. Spatial and Spectral Resolution of Semiconductor Detectors in Medical Imaging. Advances in CMOS SSPM Detectors. High-Resolution CdTe Detectors and Their Application to Gamma-Ray Imaging. Recent Advances in Positron Emission Tomography Technology.
About the author
Krzysztof (Kris) Iniewski is managing R&D at Redlen Technologies Inc., a startup company in Vancouver, Canada. Redlen's revolutionary production process for advanced semiconductor materials enables a new generation of more accurate, alldigital, radiation-based imaging solutions. He is also a president of CMOS Emerging Technologies (www.cmoset.com), an organization of high-tech events covering communications, microsystems, optoelectronics, and sensors.
