From physics to daily life : applications in biology, medicine, and healthcare /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bressan, Beatrice (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
• Έκδοση: Second edition.
• Θέματα: 2000-2099; Science > History > 21st century.; Science > Social aspects > Forecasting.; Science.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.; Electronic books.; History.

Beatrice Bressan brings together a number of outstanding examples of successful cross-disciplinary technology transfer originating in fundamental physics research, which dramatically impacted progress in biomedical research and clinical applications. Many of these examples were developed at CERN, a...

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• From Physics to Daily Life: Applications in Biology, Medicine, and Healthcare; Contents; Contributors' CVs; Foreword; List of Acronyms; List of Units; 1 Introduction; Part I: Knowledge Management and Technology Transfer in an Organization; 2 Knowledge Management: From Theory to Practice; 2.1 Knowledge-Based and Innovative Organization; 2.2 The Theory of Knowledge; 2.2.1 Tacit and Explicit Knowledge; 2.2.2 The SECI Model and the Knowledge Creation Spiral; 2.2.3 The Two Dimensions and the Two Spirals of Knowledge Creation; 2.2.4 The Five Conditions and the Five Phases in Two Dimensions.
• 2.3 The Core Processes of Managing Knowledge2.3.1 Knowledge Outputs and Outcomes; 2.4 The Knowledge Worker; 2.4.1 The Individual Learning Process; 2.4.2 Scientific, Technological and Social Processes; 2.4.3 Concept Formation and the Hierarchical Levels of Conceptualization; 2.5 The Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, and Transfer Model; 2.6 Knowledge Management: A Case Study of CERN; 2.6.1 The LHC Case Study Survey; Part II: Examples of Knowledge and Technology Transfer; Section 1: Medical Applications; 3 Particle Beams for Cancer; 3.1 Radiations in the Therapy of Solid Tumours.
• 3.2 Conventional Radiation Therapy3.3 Neutrontherapy and Protontherapy; 3.4 Ion Therapy; 3.5 Proton Single-Room Facilities; 3.6 Conclusion; 4 Detection and Imaging; 4.1 Invention of the Multiwire Proportional Chamber; 4.2 Modalities for Medical Imaging; 4.3 Development of the HIDAC Detector; 4.4 The Dual-HIDAC PET Camera; 4.5 Early Developments in Positron Tomography; 4.6 Fully Three-Dimensional PET Acquisition; 4.7 The Partial Ring Tomograph; 4.8 The Birth of Multimodality Instrumentation; 4.9 Conclusion; 5 Micro-Fabricated Sensors; 5.1 3D Silicon Sensors; 5.1.1 3D Sensor Fabrication.
• 5.1.2 3D Silicon Sensors, State of the Art5.2 3D Sensor Applications; 5.2.1 Micro-Dosimetry for Cancer Therapy; 5.2.2 Structural Molecular Biology; 5.2.3 Scattering from Crystals; Section 2: Impact on Life Sciences; 6 Omics: Technologies and Translations; 6.1 Biology from Different Perspectives; 6.1.1 Biology from a Descriptive Discipline to a Holistic, Molecular, and Quantitative Science; 6.1.2 Biology from a Chain-of-Events Perspective to Network Thinking; 6.2 Quantum Leaps in Omics Development; 6.2.1 From Gene and DNA Analysis to Deep Sequencing.
• 6.2.1.1 Single Gene Expression Analysis: Real-Time PCR6.2.1.2 Microarrays-Based Transcriptomics; 6.2.1.3 Deep Sequencing; 6.2.2 Classical Biochemistry Goes -Omics; 6.2.2.1 Proteomics; 6.2.2.2 Metabolites; 6.2.2.3 Metabolomics; 6.3 Omics Output (I): Knowledge Bases; 6.3.1 Human Genome Projects; 6.3.2 Human Proteome Projects; 6.3.3 Human Metabolome Projects; 6.4 Omics Output (II): Translations and Challenges; 6.4.1 Genetics to Diagnostics; 6.4.2 Proteomics to Diagnostics; 6.5 From Omics to 'Know-mics': Translation into Personal and Actionable (gen)omics; 7 Technology Fallout in Bioinformatics.