Contents

## **Preface XIII**

Chapter 1 **Biomedical Engineering Professional Trail from Anatomy and Physiology to Medicine and Into Hospital Administration: Towards Higher-Order of Translational Medicine and Patient Care 1**  Dhanjoo N. Ghista


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	- **Part 2 Biomaterials and Implants 223**
	- **Part 3 Biomedical Engineering 417**

Chapter 18 **Domain-Specific Software Engineering Design for Diabetes Mellitus Study Through Gene and Retinopathy Analysis 447**  Hua Cao, Deyin Lu and Bahram Khoobehi

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Chapter 8 *In Vitro* **Leukocyte Adhesion in Endothelial Tissue Culture**

**Synthesis, Modification and Applications 247**  Lin Xiao, Bo Wang, Guang Yang and Mario Gauthier

**as a Nanomedical Platform for Cancer-Targeted** 

Scott Cooper, Melissa Dick, Alexander Emmott, Paul Jonak,

**Models Under Flow 191** 

Kingsley Enohumah

**Part 2 Biomaterials and Implants 223**

Chapter 11 **Poly(Lactic Acid)-Based Biomaterials:** 

**Imaging and Therapy 283**

**Eluting Stents 301**

Chapter 10 **Non-Thermal Plasma Surface Modification of Biodegradable Polymers 225** N. De Geyter and R. Morent

Chapter 12 **Multifunctional Magnetic Hybrid Nanoparticles** 

Husheng Yan, Miao Guo and Keliang Liu

Barry M. O'Connell and Michael T. Walsh

Chapter 14 **Biosurfactants and Bioemulsifiers Biomedical and Related Applications –** 

Letizia Fracchia, Massimo Cavallo,

Nikola Jagodić and Ðuro Koruga

Catauro Michelina and Bollino Flavia

Chapter 17 **Diabetes Mechanisms, Detection and Complications**

Chapter 15 **Contact Lenses Characterization by AFM MFM, and OMF 371** 

**Applications 389** 

**Part 3 Biomedical Engineering 417** 

**Monitoring 419**

Chapter 13 **Arterial Mass Transport Behaviour of Drugs from Drug** 

**Present Status and Future Potentials 325**

Maria Giovanna Martinotti and Ibrahim M. Banat

Dušan Kojić, Božica Bojović, Dragomir Stamenković,

Chapter 16 **Synthesis and Characterization of Amorphous and Hybrid**

**Materials Obtained by Sol-Gel Processing for Biomedical** 

Dhanjoo N. Ghista, U. Rajendra Acharya, Kamlakar D. Desai, Sarma Dittakavi, Adejuwon A. Adeneye and Loh Kah Meng

Léonie Rouleau and Richard L. Leask

Chapter 9 **Pain in Osteoarthritis: Emerging Techniques and Technologies for Its Treatment 209** 


### **Part 4 Biotechnology 585**

	- **Part 5 Physiological Systems Engineering in Medical Assessment 779**
