Simulation Modelling in Bioengineering: Proceedings of the Biosim '96 Conference Book

	The potential of numerical simulation methods in biomedical research	3
	A quantitative description of the competitive polymerase chain reaction	13
	A mathematical model of premature baby thermoregulation and infant incubator dynamics	23
	Spatially resolved simulation of coronary hemodynamics	39
	Modeling reentrant activity in cardiac tissue	53
	Computational fluid dynamics simulations of the human lung: an overview	69
	Inverse solution of hemodialysis solute kinetics	79
	Simulation and visualization of transient 3D-flow in arteries with an artificial heart valve using Lattice-Boltzmann methods	87
	Finite element analysis of hip prostheses and design of fixation devices for fractures in human femurs	99
	Membrane shear elasticity and depletion of membrane skeleton in red blood cell vesicles	109
	Evaluation of forearm fixation plate design using finite element methods	119
	Comparison of conventional and hybrid modulus press-fit proximal femoral prostheses	127
	Photoelasticity applied to the study of human bones	141
	Numerical analysis, design and manufacturing of external fixators for open-bone human fractures	153
	Finite element analyses of impacted allografts for total hip arthoplasty	165
	Fracture mechanics of bone using the dual boundary element method	175
	3D simulation, visualization, animation and modeling of eye movements, pupillary response and visual evoked potentials for ophthalmological studies	189
	Interactive border detection in cellular images using a Kohonen neural network	201
	Parallel volume projection in 3D medical images	209
	Generation of structure of the aortic bifurcation from magnetic resonance angiogram	217
	Three-dimensional echocardiographic images simulation from a cardiac tissue	227
	Left ventricle 3D reconstruction using Gibbs Random Fields and Simulated Annealing	239
	Algorithms for compressing ultrasonic images and audio Doppler ultrasound at very low bit rates	249
	Visualization of computer-generated arterial model trees	259
	Parametric linear and non-linear modeling techniques for estimating abnormal intra-QRS potentials in the high resolution ECG	271
	Incidence of chaotic behaviour of ventricular late potentials on patient's susceptibility to a catastrophic arrhythmia	281
	The dosimetry of electromagnetic fields near medical equipment using electrical impedance tomography	293
	Propagation of electrical excitation in a ring of cardiac cells: a computer simulation study	303
	Index of Authors	315