1st Edition

High-Performance Computing in Biomedical Research

558 Pages
by CRC Press

558 Pages
by CRC Press

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