Biomedical Engineering

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Electrical Signals in a HeartBiomedical Engineering:
Electrical Signals in a Heart

Università Campus Biomedico di Roma, Rome, Italy
Making sense of the contractions and dilations in the heart requires far more than simply considering how mechanical deformations force blood through hollows...

Physician Moves Modeling into Patient CareBioengineering:
Physician Moves Modeling into Patient Care

LSU School of Medicine, Shreveport, LA
The image of a physician performing a bedside diagnosis might not be one that comes to mind when thinking of the typical person performing computational...

Joined at the HipBiomedical Engineering:
Joined at the Hip

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
As part of a course in biomedical engineering, Dr. Hart gives assignments that require the students to create models in COMSOL Multiphysics. In addition,...

Multiphysics Simulations Help Keep Eyes HealthyBioengineering:
Multiphysics Simulations Help Keep Eyes Healthy

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Researchers have been exploring for an accurate yet non-invasive method of predicting eye diseases at earlier stages than are currently possible. One...

Model Examples

Laser Heating – A Self Guided Tutorial: This tutorial shows how to model transient heat conduction in a glass slab... Fluid-Structure Interaction in a Network of Blood Vessels: This model refers to a portion of the vascular system of a...
Microwave Cancer Therapy: Electromagnetic heating is ideally suited for modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics. This model... Electric Impedance Sensor: Electric impedance measurements are used for imaging and detection. Applications range from...
Absorbed Radiation (SAR) in the Human Brain: Scientists use the SAR (specific absorption rate) to determine the amount... Electric Sensor: This is a model from electric impedance tomography, a method of imaging the interior permittivity...
Peristaltic Pump: In a peristaltic pump, rotating rollers squeeze a flexible tube. As the rollers move along the tube,... Hepatic Tumor Ablation: One method for removing cancerous tumors from healthy tissue is to heat the malignant tissue to...
Magnetic Drug Targeting: Current research on methods to target chemotherapy drugs in the human body includes the... A Transient Analysis of Freeze-drying: Freeze-drying, or lyophilization, is a process for drying heat-sensitive...
Structural Integrity of a Hip Replacement: The most common reason that people have hip-replacement surgery is due to the... Drug Release from a Biomaterial Matrix: In this example, drug-release from a biomaterial matrix to damaged cell tissue...
Degradation of DNA in Plasma: Biotechnology is a rapidly growing area in the pharmaceutical sciences. One example of a... Pacemaker Electrode: This model illustrates the use of COMSOL Multiphysics for modeling of ionic current distribution...