World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/12 General Subjects

Front Matter....Pages -
Assessment of Neuromuscular Function with a New Ground Reaction Force Platform Using Power Spectrum Analysis Technique....Pages 1-4
Evaluation of safety observance in using of Intravenous Contrast media In Iran....Pages 5-8
Biomedical Physics Education of Medical and Healthcare Personnel the Cyprus Experience....Pages 9-11
A Distribution Strategy for Imaging Centers in the Costa Rican Public Health System....Pages 12-15
Intelligent Tutoring Systems Based on Ontologies and 3D Visualization Platforms in the Teaching of the Human Anatomy....Pages 16-19
The Importance of a Safety Culture in Healthcare Facilities for the Development of an Incident Investigation System....Pages 20-23
A mobile biosensor using living cells for water quality analysis....Pages 24-26
Training of Qualified Medical Physicists: Problems and Struggles in AFOMP Region....Pages 27-29
Changes in the Water Content of the Skin during the Early Neonatal Period....Pages 30-33
Teaching Signal Processing to the Medical Profession....Pages 34-36
The Beginnings of a Subject on the “Development of Medical Devices” within the “European Higher Education Area” Framework....Pages 37-40
Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology: A ’Learning-by-Doing Approach’....Pages 41-44
Strengthening Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) in East Africa....Pages 45-47
More Attention to Risk Class I Medical Devices Navigation Arm Systems and Equipment Trolleys....Pages 48-50
Developing a Database of Generic Specifications for Medical Equipment for Healthcare Institutions in a Developing Country....Pages 51-53
A Medical Biophysics Conceptual Base for Medical / Healthcare / Technology Students at the Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk Uni., Brno....Pages 54-56
Assessment on a Safe use of a Home Telemedicine System regarding Electromagnetic Compatibility....Pages 57-60
Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Assessments in Biomedical Education....Pages 61-64
Planning of Medical Physicists Education for Radiotherapy in Russia....Pages 65-67
Creating an Independent International Medical Physics Board....Pages 68-70
Biomedical Engineering Education and Training in Nigeria....Pages 71-74
Medical Devices Put to Test - How Safe and Intuitive are Blood Sugar Meters?....Pages 75-76
Health Technology Management in a Developing Country Like the Philippines....Pages 77-80
Improving the Methodological Approach to Evaluate the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Primary Health Care in Cuba....Pages 81-84
Problem Based Practical Courses (PBPC) Combine Student Motivation, Self-structuring and Responsibility in Biomedical Education....Pages 85-88
Developed and applications of a novel ceramic-controlled piezoelectric due to an implant of Pt-wire into the body of single disk of BaTiO 3 ceramic....Pages 89-92
Towards Appropriate Selection and Procurement of Medical Devices: A Proposed Model for Health Care Planners....Pages 93-96
Education and Training of Medical Physicists in Europe and the Countries of North America: Similarities-Differences-General Guidelines....Pages 97-100
Educational Development of Biomedical Engineering in China....Pages 101-104
Health Technology Assessment for a Service Contract: a new method for decisional tools....Pages 105-108
Cleaning Evaluation and Cross-Contamination in Drug Repackaging Systems....Pages 109-111
Electromagnetic Fields - A Basic Carcinogenic Factor of Children Oncology....Pages 112-114
Abnormal Mass Detection in a Real Breast Model: A Computational Tactile Sensing Approach....Pages 115-118
Biomedical Physics Education for the Healthcare Profession: Quality and Safety as the Starting Points....Pages 119-122
Biomedical Physics Education for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiographers in Europe - A Review....Pages 123-126
From biomedical research to viable products on the health care market - a North Sweden model called CMTF....Pages 127-130
Web 2.0 and Medical Physics....Pages 131-133
Bioengineering assessment of acupuncture....Pages 134-137
Collaboration between academia, manufacturers and healthcare services for development and adoption of medical devices with regard to costs and effects....Pages 138-140
EFOMP Project ’Biomedical Physics Education for the Healthcare Professions’ - An Update for WC2009....Pages 141-144
Biomedical Device Learning Needs of General Nurses in First Cycle Programs in the Czech Republic....Pages 145-147
Professional Training of Medical Physicists in AFOMP - The Role of IOMP PRC....Pages 148-150
E-Health Readiness Assessment Methodology (EHRAM)....Pages 151-154
Medical Natural Sciences: a new academic program to train biomedical researchers....Pages 155-158
A Module for Virtual Training: Calibration of High Energy Photon and Electron Beams According the IAEA Code of Practice TRS 398....Pages 159-161
Status and Perspectives of Qualification in Radiation Oncology Physics in Bangladesh....Pages 162-165
HTA (Health Technology Assessment): A Means to Reach Governance Goals and to Guide Health Politics on the Topic of Clinical Risk Management....Pages 166-169
Clinical simulation - Complementary Study Strategy in Medical Technological Education....Pages 170-172
Medical Physics Education in Bangladesh and Cooperation with Germany....Pages 173-176
Temporal distribution of atrial arrhythmic episodes....Pages 177-179
Development and Evaluation of a Formal-Analytical Usability Analysing Tool for Medical Devices and Systems....Pages 180-183
Health Technology Assessment of Home Monitoring for the Continuity of Care of patient suffering from congestive heart failure....Pages 184-187
RFId-based tracking and safety system....Pages 188-191
Bioethics and Empowerment in health management....Pages 192-195
Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation Research Collaboration between Universiti Kuala Lumpur, deNuo Sdn. Bhd. and Flinders University, Australia....Pages 196-199
Multidisciplinary School as a BME Teaching Option....Pages 200-203
Medical Physics Education and Training: Regional and International Challenges....Pages 204-207
Biomedical Physics Education for Healthcare Professions: A Lithuanian Contribution....Pages 208-211
EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics with Multilingual Dictionary....Pages 212-214
Estimation Accuracy of Human COG Trajectory Using Accelerometer....Pages 215-216
An analysis for electrical noise of electric bulb shaped fluorescent tube to maintain security level of medical use RFID tag....Pages 217-220
A Model for Effective and Efficient Teleteaching of Medical Physics....Pages 221-222
Issues in E-Health Cost Impact Assessment....Pages 223-226
Increasing Preload Reduced Actin-Myosin Interaction in Isolated Beating Rat Whole Heart Under Hypoxia....Pages 227-230
The Current Status of Medical Physics in Asia-Oceania....Pages 231-232
Strategy for Radiotherapy Development in Russia....Pages 233-235
VERT: Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training....Pages 236-238
Technology behind Video Lectures for Biomedical Engineering....Pages 239-242
A setup for checking electromagnetic interference between implantable cardiac pacemaker and RFID UHF....Pages 243-246
Vibration stimuli to planta pedis is effective to fall prevention....Pages 247-250
Risk Assessment in Radiotherapy - Lessons from Systems Engineering....Pages 251-254
Web site Development for EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia and Multilingual Dictionary....Pages 255-256
Improving the interpretation of Patent Data by the employment of the Semantic- Web formalism in the specific context of Biomedical Technology....Pages 257-260
Development and Application of New Storage-Technologies for Effective and Secure Cryobanking....Pages 261-263
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasound Experience from the EMIT and EMITEL e-Learning and e-Encyclopedia Projects....Pages 264-266
SEMIO: an expert system for monitoring critical hospital infrastructures....Pages 267-270
An e-learning experience for medical education in Mediterranean countries....Pages 271-274
Bioengineering Education in Romania....Pages 275-276
Employees’ Commitment for ISO 9000 Implantation in a Philanthropic General Hospital: A Case Study by Multiple Correspondence Analysis....Pages 277-280
Text Mining for Automatic Lexical Analysis of Layman Text of Biomedical Argument....Pages 281-284
Magnetic Resonance (MR) Safety and Compatibility - Survey of Methods and Standards for Testing and Marking Medical Devices....Pages 285-287
EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia Links with EMERALD e-Learning Modules....Pages 288-290
Medical Physics Training Programme at Chulalongkorn University and Evaluation of Its Effectiveness....Pages 291-294
The Role of National Radiation Regulatory Agencies in the Education and Training of Medical Physicists in the Republic of the Philippines....Pages 295-297
Incident reports to BfArM support the importance of usability for patient safety....Pages 298-300
Application of Neuro-Fuzzy Technology in Medical Diagnosis: Case Study of Heart Failure....Pages 301-304
Implementation of the 3R-strategy in the case of the development of a novel active lung model....Pages 305-308
Classification of Cardiac Arrhythmias Using PNN Neural Network Based on ECG Feature Extraction....Pages 309-311
Future of personalized therapies in diabetes mellitus: A crossroads among EHR, knowledge management and digital healthcare....Pages 312-315
EHR access rights and the role of the patient....Pages 316-319
Electronic Medical Equipment: Statistics and Analysis of Patent Data for Technology Assessment....Pages 320-323
Assessment and Development of Competency of Clinical Engineering Practitioners - South East Asian Experience....Pages 324-326
Forgotten Costs: - The Dilemma of Medical Equipment Economy in Developing Countries....Pages 327-329
Present Status of Medical Radiological Physics in Bulgaria....Pages 330-331
The enhancement of the radiotherapy resources in Osaka, Japan; based on the Japanese structure surveys in 2003 and 2005....Pages 332-335
IOMP Model Curriculum for postgraduate (MSc-level) education programme on Medical Physics....Pages 336-339
Autism and Technology: an approach to new technology-based therapeutic tools....Pages 340-343
Biomedical Engineering as a Major within Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - Pros and Cons....Pages 344-344
Towards Patient Empowerment - Can the Patient Really Decide?....Pages 345-348
Human resources as an important factor in the management of medical equipment: Institutions involved and their expertise in Peru....Pages 349-352
Development of an electronic device based on the concept of masked voice....Pages 353-355
Investigation of Intraindividual Difference in Vigilance Index of Saccade Based on Rated Facial Sleepiness....Pages 356-359
Ultra Small Disposable Incontinence Sensor with RFID Tag....Pages 360-361
A home-based care model of cardiac rehabilitation using digital technology....Pages 362-365
Medical Process Management - An Innovative Master of Science Program Addressing the Challenges Faced by Health Care Systems....Pages 366-367
Biomedical Engineering Education and Training in India - A Need for New Approach....Pages 368-371
Accreditation and Certification in Biomedical Engineering in the Czech Republic....Pages 372-375
The Regulation of the Clinical Engineering Profession as an Important Contribution to Quality Assurance in Health Care....Pages 376-378
Infant Travel for Obtaining Medical Assistance: Factors Suggested by Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Associative Ellipsoid....Pages 379-382
Teaching and Learning of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Ukrainian Medical Universities....Pages 383-384
A simple laboratory method for teaching how electrocardiogram is generated....Pages 385-387
Development of Portable Monitoring Device with an Accelerometer and GPS Receiver for Health Management....Pages 388-389
Cooperative Installation of the Medical Physics Online Study Program “Master of Advanced Physical Methods in Radiotherapy”....Pages 390-392
Women in Science in Europe: EU Policies for the Promotion of Women Scientists and the Role of the European Platform of Women Scientists in Shaping Them....Pages 393-396
Indicators for Evaluating and Measuring the Impact of Healthcare Infrastructure and Technology Management on Investments, Service Delivery and Quality of Care....Pages 397-400
A Microprocessor-based Biofeedback Emotion System....Pages 401-403
Global Courseware for Visualization and Processing Biosignals....Pages 404-407
An Ontology Architecture for HL7 V3: Pitfalls and Outcomes....Pages 408-410
What Is Needed to Finally Achieve Semantic Interoperability?....Pages 411-414
Incorporating Interoperability Functionality for Increasing Patient Safety with PCA-Included Multiple Infusion Therapy....Pages 415-418
Collaborative Clinical Engineering Internship Program between an Academic Institution and a Teaching Hospital....Pages 419-422
Development of a Heart Rate Monitor Based on an Ear Phone....Pages 423-425
Evaluation of Mixed Reality Sickness by Changing the Time Lag between Real Images and Virtual Images in an Advanced Driver Assistance System....Pages 426-429
Certification of Clinical Engineers in Sweden....Pages 430-431
Research on Trusted Personal Health and Wellness Information in Ubiquitous Health Information Space....Pages 432-435
Incremental Semantic Enrichment of Narrative Content in Electronic Health Records....Pages 436-438
Patient Empowerment by Ontology-Based Multi-lingual Systems....Pages 439-442
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): A Method for Coping with Low Frequency Noise Annoyance....Pages 443-445
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