chapter 1 CHEMICAL SENSORS / chapter 2 NEURO-ELECTRIC SIGNAL RECORDING / chapter 3 PRESSURE SENSORS / chapter 4 X-RAY-BASED IMAGING / chapter 5 NUCLEAR MEDICINE / chapter 6 MRI / chapter 7 BIOMAGNETIC AND BIOELECTRIC IMAGING / chapter 8 ULTRASOUND / chapter 9 MULTIMODAL IMAGING / chapter 10 GENERAL TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS / chapter 11 ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY / chapter 12 IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY / chapter 13 VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY IN MEDICINE / chapter 14 MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL ROBOTICS / chapter 15 ABLATION -- chapter 16 NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATION / chapter 17 HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY -- chapter 18 DRUG DELIVERY.