The development of biomedical engineering as experienced by one biomedical engineer

This personal essay described the development of the field of Biomedical Engineering from its early days, from the perspective of one who lived through that development. It describes the making of a major invention using data that had been rejected by other scientists, the re-discovery of an obscure...

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Published in:Biomedical engineering online 2012-12, Vol.11 (1), p.94-94
Main Author: Newell, Jonathan C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical engineering
Biomedical Engineering - education
Biomedical Engineering - history
Biomedical engineers
Biomedical instrumentation
Cell culture
College students
Control theory
Data processing
Electric Impedance
Electrical impedance imaging
Electricity
Engineers
Evolution
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Hypotheses
imaging
Impedance spectroscopy
Impedance tomography
Internet
Jonathan C Newell
Letter to the Editor
Lung - diagnostic imaging
Lung - physiology
Medical imaging equipment
Medical instruments
Methods
Newell
Pulmonary arteries
Radiography
Respiratory distress syndrome
Services
Teaching
Technical support
Technological change
Tissue engineering
Tomography
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Summary:This personal essay described the development of the field of Biomedical Engineering from its early days, from the perspective of one who lived through that development. It describes the making of a major invention using data that had been rejected by other scientists, the re-discovery of an obscure fact of physiology and its use in developing a major medical instrument, the development of a new medical imaging modality, and the near-death rescue of a research project. The essay concludes with comments about the development and present status of impedance imaging, and recent changes in the evolution of biomedical engineering as a field.
ISSN:1475-925X
1475-925X
DOI:10.1186/1475-925X-11-94