Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering

Bringing together fundamental engineering and life science principles, this undergraduate and graduate level textbook provides focused coverage of key concepts in biomedical engineering transport phenomena. It presents basic understanding and theories of transport in biological systems, and then builds on this knowledge to demonstrate real world applications in drug delivery systems, tissue engineering and artificial organs. With numerous homework problems and bibliographies, chapters address such topics as: body fluids, capillary solute transport, physical and flow properties of blood, tissue oxygen transport and pharmacokinetic models.