This comprehensive text is suitable for researchers and graduate students of a ‘hot’ new topic in medical physics.
Written by the world’s leading experts, this book aims to present recent developments in plasma medicine, both technological and scientific, reviewed in a fashion accessible to the highly interdisciplinary audience consisting of doctors, physicists, biologists, chemists and other scientists, university students and professors, engineers and medical practitioners.
The book focuses on major topics and covers the physics required to develop novel plasma discharges relevant for medical applications, the medicine to apply the technology not only in-vitro but also in-vivo testing and the biology to understand complicated bio-chemical processes involved in plasma interaction with living tissues.
Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Plasma Medicine (pages 1–17):
Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Plasma Physics and Plasma Chemistry for Biological and Medical Applications (pages 19–79):
Chapter 3 Selected Concepts in Biology and Medicine for Physical Scientists (pages 81–164):
Chapter 4 Major Plasma Disharges and their Applicability for Plasma Medicine (pages 165–267):
Chapter 5 Mechanisms of Plasma Interactions with Cells (pages 269–292):
Chapter 6 Plasma Sterilization of Different Surfaces and Living Tissues (pages 293–338):
Chapter 7 Plasma Decontamination of Water and Air Streams (pages 339–388):
Chapter 8 Plasma Treatment of Blood (pages 389–402):
Chapter 9 Plasma?assisted Healing and Treatment of Diseases (pages 403–433):
Chapter 10 Plasma Pharmacology (pages 435–446):
Chapter 11 Plasma?assisted Tissue Engineering and Plasma Processing of Polymers (pages 435–482):