SPECIAL ISSUES
The Journal has an active programme of commissioned Special Issues focussing on key topics including a forthcoming Special Issue on "Bone Tissue Engineering" to be published in 2010.
2010, Volume 224
2009, Volume 223
2008, Volume 222
Previous Special Issues
2010, VOL. 224
Mircotechnologies for Surgery, issue H6. Guest-edited by Peter N Brett and Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena.
This Special Issue has arisen from the completion of a successful research network study supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK. This had the aim to identify how the increasing challenges in surgery could be supported by new micro and novel technologies. It identified that pressures on cost, the anticipation of the far reaching needs of the ageing population, and working beyond thresholds of human dexterity, such as in minimal access surgery, were areas of frequent concern. While modern procedures are adapting to the benefits of minimal access methods, interfaces with the surgeon that increase perception and dexterity do not yet support the task well.
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Image Guided Surgery, issue H5. Guest-edited by Patrick Finlay.
The first generation of large, disruptive machines are in the process of being replaced by a new generation of smaller, surgeonfriendly systems, carefully integrated into the surgical workflow. Advances in sensor technology are allowing in-situ information to be supplied directly to the surgical team, and real-time sensing is just starting to be used to modulate the pre-operative surgical. The papers published in this Special Issue illustrate these latest trends across several surgical disciplines and some of the papers also look to the development pipeline to systems with increasing intelligence.
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Special section on Ultransonic Imaging and Therapy, issue H2. Guest Edited by Peter N wells.
This special issue is aimed primarily at mechanical engineers who need authoritative reviews of the applications of ultrasonics in diagnostic and therapeutic medicine. The emphasis is on the mechanical aspects of the various technologies – after all, ultrasound is a mechanical wave; the discussion of the electronics of the instrumentation is mainly at the level of block diagrams, rather than circuit details.
This special issue is intended to cover the subject quite comprehensively, so that it will serve as the only source to which mechanical engineers seeking a review of any of the current mainstream aspects of the subject will usually need to refer, at least for the next three to five years.
The special issue is free to download until the end of March 2010.
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2009, VOL. 223
Special section on Engineering the Upper Limb, issue H7. Guest-edited by GR Johnson, A Bull, and C Holt.
The specialist section of this issue contains papers on upper limb biomechanics presented at the IMechE Conference ‘Engineering the Upper Limb’ held in London in April 2008. The majority of papers in this Special Section concern the shoulder complex, with the remaining two being devoted to wrist and hand. This balance reflects the increased interest in shoulder biomechanics over the last few years, with real progress in understanding and in the development of novel prostheses. We hope that this issue will be of interest to all of the readership and that it may stimulate further interest in upper limb biomechanics.
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Biomedical Engineering Education, issue H4. Guest-edited by T Joyce.
The papers published in this Special Issue cover a wide spectrum: from a macro view of biomedical engineering programmes in an entire country, to the pedagogical issues inherent in the design, development, delivery, and evaluation of a single biomedical engineering module.
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2008, VOL. 222
Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Biofluid Mechanics, issue H4. Guest-edited by AW Khir, SJ Sherwin and TJ Pedley
This Special Issue demonstrates a variety of theortical, computational, and computational, and experimental research techniques which are currently being used to understand the dynamics of fluids within the cardiovascular, urinary, and respiratory systems.
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Current Concepts and Clinically Significant Outcomes of Recent Research into Spinal Mechanics., issue H2. Guest-edited by M Pearcy, C Adam, R Thompson and R Wilcox.
This Special Issue has compiled papers that lead from an anatomical study of spinal muscles, through techniques for measuring the mechanical response of the spine and for simulating activities to gain an insight into its behaviour, to a number of studies investigating current treatments to assess their validity.
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PREVIOUS SPECIAL ISSUES
2007, Vol. 221
2006, Vol. 220
2005, Vol. 219
2003, Vol. 217
2001, Vol.215
2000, Vol. 214
| Millenium, issue H1. Guest-edited by T Unsworth. |
1999, Vol. 213
1998, Vol. 212
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