part Section I. Anatomical Physics -- chapter 1 Physics of the Cell Membrane -- chapter 2 Protein Signaling -- chapter 3 Cell Biology and Biophysicsof the Cell Membrane -- chapter 4 Cellular Thermodynamics -- chapter 5 Action Potential Transmission and Volume Conduction -- part Section II. Physics of Perception -- chapter 6 Medical Decision Making -- chapter 7 Senses -- chapter 8 Somesthesis -- chapter 9 Hearing -- chapter 10 Vision -- chapter 11 Electroreception -- part Section III. Biomechanics -- chapter 12 Biomechanics -- chapter 13 Artificial Muscle -- chapter 14 Cardiovascular System -- chapter 15 Control of Cardiac Output and Arterial Blood Pressure Regulation -- chapter 16 Fluid Dynamics of the Cardiovascular System -- chapter 17 Fluid Dynamics -- chapter 18 Modeling and Simulation of the Cardiovascular System to Determine Work Using Bond Graphs -- chapter 19 Anatomy and Physics of Respiration -- part Section IV. Bioelectrical Physics -- chapter 20 Electrodes -- chapter 21 Recording of Bioelectrical Signals: Theory and Practice -- part Section V. Diagnostic Physics -- chapter 22 Medical Sensing and Imaging -- chapter 23 Electrocardiogram: Electrical Information Retrieval and Diagnostics from the Beating Heart -- chapter 24 Electroencephalography: Basic Concepts and Brain Applications -- chapter 25 Bioelectric Impedance Analysis -- chapter 26 X-ray and Computed Tomography -- chapter 27 Confocal Microscopy -- chapter 28 Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- chapter 29 Positron Emission Tomography -- chapter 30 In Vivo Fluorescence Imaging and Spectroscopy -- chapter 31 Optical Coherence Tomography -- chapter 32 Ultrasonic Imaging -- chapter 33 Near-Field Imaging -- chapter 34 Atomic Force Microscopy -- chapter 35 Scanning Ion ConductanceMicroscopy -- chapter 36 Quantitative Thermographic Imaging -- chapter 37 Intracoronary Thermography -- chapter 38 Schlieren Imaging: Optical Techniques to Visualize Thermal Interactions with Biological Tissues -- chapter 39 Helium Ion Microscopy -- chapter 40 Electron Microscopy: SEM/TEM -- part Section VI. Physics of AccessoryMedicine -- chapter 41 Lab-on-a-Chip -- chapter 42 The Biophysics of DNA Microarrays -- chapter 43 Nuclear Medicine -- chapter 44 Biophysics in Regenerative Medicine.