BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL PHYSICS,
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
The fields of biological and medical physics and biomedical engineering are broad, multidisciplinary and
dynamic. They lie at the crossroads of frontier research in physics, biology, chemistry, and medicine. The
Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering Series is intended to be comprehensive, covering a
broad range of topics important to the study of the physical, chemical and biological sciences. Its goal is to
provide scientists and engineers with textbooks, monographs, and reference works to address the growing need
for information.
Books in the series emphasise established and emergent areas of science including molecular, membrane,
and mathematical biophysics; photosynthetic energy harvesting and conversion; information processing; physical principles of genetics; sensory communications; automata networks, neural networks, and cellular automata.
Equally important will be coverage of applied aspects of biological and medical physics and biomedical
engineering such as molecular electronic components and devices, biosensors, medicine, imaging, physical
principles of renewable energy production, advanced prostheses, and environmental control and engineering.
Editor-in-Chief:
Bernard S. Gerstman, Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
Editorial Board:
Masuo Aizawa, Department of Bioengineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Robert H. Austin, Department of Physics,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
James Barber, Wolfson Laboratories,
Imperial College of Science Technology,
London, UK
Howard C. Berg, Department of Molecular
and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Callender, Department of Biochemistry,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, New York, USA
George Feher, Department of Physics,
University of California, San Diego,
La Jolla, California, USA
Hans Frauenfelder,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Ivar Giaever, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York, USA
Pierre Joliot, Institute de Biologie
Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond
de Rothschild, Paris, France
Lajos Keszthelyi, Biological Research Center,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Szeged, Hungary
Paul W. King, Biosciences Center
and Photobiology Group, National Renewable
Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Gianluca Lazzi
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Aaron Lewis, Department of Applied Physics,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Stuart M. Lindsay, Department of Physics
and Astronomy, Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona, USA
Xiang Yang Liu, Department of Physics,
Faculty of Science,
National University of Singapore, Singapore
David Mauzerall, Rockefeller University,
New York, New York, USA
Eugenie V. Mielczarek, Department of Physics
and Astronomy, George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Markolf Niemz, Medical Faculty Mannheim,
University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
V. Adrian Parsegian, Physical Science
Laboratory, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Linda S. Powers, University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Earl W. Prohofsky, Department of Physics,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Tatiana K. Rostovtseva,
NICHD, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Andrew Rubin, Department of Biophysics,
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Michael Seibert, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Nongjian Tao, Biodesign Center
for Bioelectronics and Biosensors,
Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
David Thomas, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Minnesota Medical School,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/3740
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
The fields of biological and medical physics and biomedical engineering are broad, multidisciplinary and
dynamic. They lie at the crossroads of frontier research in physics, biology, chemistry, and medicine. The
Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering Series is intended to be comprehensive, covering a
broad range of topics important to the study of the physical, chemical and biological sciences. Its goal is to
provide scientists and engineers with textbooks, monographs, and reference works to address the growing need
for information.
Books in the series emphasise established and emergent areas of science including molecular, membrane,
and mathematical biophysics; photosynthetic energy harvesting and conversion; information processing; physical principles of genetics; sensory communications; automata networks, neural networks, and cellular automata.
Equally important will be coverage of applied aspects of biological and medical physics and biomedical
engineering such as molecular electronic components and devices, biosensors, medicine, imaging, physical
principles of renewable energy production, advanced prostheses, and environmental control and engineering.
Editor-in-Chief:
Bernard S. Gerstman, Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
Editorial Board:
Masuo Aizawa, Department of Bioengineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Robert H. Austin, Department of Physics,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
James Barber, Wolfson Laboratories,
Imperial College of Science Technology,
London, UK
Howard C. Berg, Department of Molecular
and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Callender, Department of Biochemistry,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, New York, USA
George Feher, Department of Physics,
University of California, San Diego,
La Jolla, California, USA
Hans Frauenfelder,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Ivar Giaever, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York, USA
Pierre Joliot, Institute de Biologie
Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond
de Rothschild, Paris, France
Lajos Keszthelyi, Biological Research Center,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Szeged, Hungary
Paul W. King, Biosciences Center
and Photobiology Group, National Renewable
Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Gianluca Lazzi
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Aaron Lewis, Department of Applied Physics,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Stuart M. Lindsay, Department of Physics
and Astronomy, Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona, USA
Xiang Yang Liu, Department of Physics,
Faculty of Science,
National University of Singapore, Singapore
David Mauzerall, Rockefeller University,
New York, New York, USA
Eugenie V. Mielczarek, Department of Physics
and Astronomy, George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Markolf Niemz, Medical Faculty Mannheim,
University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
V. Adrian Parsegian, Physical Science
Laboratory, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Linda S. Powers, University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Earl W. Prohofsky, Department of Physics,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Tatiana K. Rostovtseva,
NICHD, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Andrew Rubin, Department of Biophysics,
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Michael Seibert, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Nongjian Tao, Biodesign Center
for Bioelectronics and Biosensors,
Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
David Thomas, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Minnesota Medical School,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/3740