1st Edition

High-Performance Computing in Biomedical Research

    Leading researchers have contributed state-of-the-art chapters to this overview of high-performance computing in biomedical research. The book includes over 30 pages of color illustrations. Some of the important topics featured in the book include the following:

    Grand Challenges in Biomedical Computing

    The Use of Spectral Methods in Bidomain Studies

    High Performance Computing, High Speed Networks, and Configurable Computing Environments: Progress Toward Fully Distributed Computing

    Visualization of Bioelectric Phenomena I

    mpact of Massively Parallel Computation on Protein Structure Determination

    Bone Remodeling Around Total Hip Implants

    The Electrocardiographic Inverse Problem

    Models of the Spreading of Excitation in Myocardial Tissue

    High-Performance Computing in Radiation Cancer Treatment

    Finite Element Methods for the Biomechanics of Soft Hydrated Tissues: Nonlinear Analysis and Adaptive Control of Meshes

    Cardiac Propagation Simulation

    Generalized Approach to Inverse Problems in Tomography: Image Reconstruction for Spatially Variant Systems Using Natural Pixels

    Large-Scale Finite Element Analysis of the Beating Heart

    An Anatomical Heart Model with Applications to Myocardial Activation and Ventricular Mechanics

    A Multidimensional Model of Cellular Effects on the Spread of Electronic Currents and on Propagating Action Potentials

    Structured and Unstructured Grid Generation

    Biography

    Theo C. Pilkington, Bruce Loftis, Thomas Palmer and Thomas F. Budinger