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Biomedical Engineering: An Exploratory Analysis Of The Field, Meredith Ayers, Nestor Osorio
Biomedical Engineering: An Exploratory Analysis Of The Field, Meredith Ayers, Nestor Osorio
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Technological advances have a significant impact in medical sciences. biomedical engineering, which is a multi-faceted field that includes engineering, biology, chemistry, computer science, and several areas of the medical sciences among others, is the topic of this study. With a humble beginning over a century ago and formally created in the early years of the 1960s, biomedical engineering has become a strong, highly competitive and productive field. Its literature has worldwide coverage with an accelerated increase after 2000.
In this study, the authors explore two issues: First, what constitute the subject domain of Biomedical Engineering and second with the use …