This 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. 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.
Books in the series emphasize 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 is 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.
BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL PHYSICS,
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Series Editors
Masuo Aizawa, Tokyo Institute Technology,
Tokyo, Japan
Robert H. Austin, Princeton, NJ, USA
James Barber, Wolfson Laboratories, Imperial
College of Science Technology,
London, UK
Howard C. Berg, Cambridge, MA, USA
Robert Callender, Department of Biochemistry,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx,
NY, USA
George Feher, Department of Physics, University
of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Ivar Giaever, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
NY, 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,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
Lakewood, CO, 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, AZ, USA
Xiang Yang Liu, Department of Physics, Faculty of
Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore,
Singapore
David Mauzerall, Rockefeller University, New York,
NY, USA
Eugenie V. Mielczarek, Department of Physics
and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax,
USA
Markolf Niemz, Medical Faculty Mannheim,
University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
V. Adrian Parsegian, Physical Science Laboratory,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Linda S. Powers, University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ, USA
Earl W. Prohofsky, Department of Physics, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Tatiana K. Rostovtseva, NICHD,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Andrew Rubin, Department of Biophysics,
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Michael Seibert, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
Nongjian Tao, Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
David Thomas, Department of Biochemistry, University
of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Editor-in-Chief
Bernard S. Gerstman, Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/3740
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. 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.
Books in the series emphasize 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 is 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.
BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL PHYSICS,
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Series Editors
Masuo Aizawa, Tokyo Institute Technology,
Tokyo, Japan
Robert H. Austin, Princeton, NJ, USA
James Barber, Wolfson Laboratories, Imperial
College of Science Technology,
London, UK
Howard C. Berg, Cambridge, MA, USA
Robert Callender, Department of Biochemistry,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx,
NY, USA
George Feher, Department of Physics, University
of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Ivar Giaever, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
NY, 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,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
Lakewood, CO, 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, AZ, USA
Xiang Yang Liu, Department of Physics, Faculty of
Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore,
Singapore
David Mauzerall, Rockefeller University, New York,
NY, USA
Eugenie V. Mielczarek, Department of Physics
and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax,
USA
Markolf Niemz, Medical Faculty Mannheim,
University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
V. Adrian Parsegian, Physical Science Laboratory,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Linda S. Powers, University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ, USA
Earl W. Prohofsky, Department of Physics, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Tatiana K. Rostovtseva, NICHD,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Andrew Rubin, Department of Biophysics,
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Michael Seibert, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
Nongjian Tao, Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
David Thomas, Department of Biochemistry, University
of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Editor-in-Chief
Bernard S. Gerstman, Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/3740