Minimally Invasive Medical Technology

Minimally invasive medicine has the goal of providing health care with minimal trauma. When minimally invasive surgery is utilized, it reduces length of hospital stays, lowers pain, and reduces blood loss. Other minimally invasive techniques minimize radiation exposure, tissue damage, and drug side effects. Professor Webster has collected together contributions from workers in various fields within the sphere of minimally invasive medical technology and the book provides a reference work for those involved with researching, designing and using minimally invasive devices and systems. This book emphasizes the technology required to accomplish minimally invasive medicine and should be of interest to biomedical engineers, medical physicists and health care providers who want to know the technical workings of their devices and instruments.