Book description
This comprehensive text is suitable for researchers and graduate
students of a 'hot' new topic in medical physics.
Written by the world's leading experts, this book aims to present
recent developments in plasma medicine, both technological and
scientific, reviewed in a fashion accessible to the highly
interdisciplinary audience consisting of doctors, physicists,
biologists, chemists and other scientists, university students and
professors, engineers and medical practitioners.
The book focuses on major topics and covers the physics required to
develop novel plasma discharges relevant for medical applications, the
medicine to apply the technology not only in-vitro but also in-vivo
testing and the biology to understand complicated bio-chemical
processes involved in plasma interaction with living tissues.
Alexander Fridman, Ph. D., Dr. Sci., is a Nyheim Chair
Professor and director of the A. J. Drexel Plasma Institute, working
on new plasma approaches to material treatment, fuel conversion,
environmental control and bio-medical applications. He is one the
pioneers of Plasma Medicine, President of the International Society on
plasma Medicine. Dr. Fridman is author of six books and over 450
publications in scientific journals. He has received numerous awards,
including Stanley Kaplan Distinguished Professorship of University of
Illinois and George Soros Distinguished Professorship in Physics, the
DuPont research award, Chernobyl award, University of Illinois and
Drexel University Outstanding Research awards, Kurchatov Gold Medal
for Achievements in Science and Technology.
Gary Friedman, PhD, is a Professor of Electrical Engineering as
well as Professor of Surgery in Drexel University. He is Associate
Director of the Drexel Plasma Institute, leading the direction of
plasma medicine. He is a world renowned specialist in novel
engineering methods in medicine, especially in plasma medicine. He is
an author of pioneering works related to bio-physics and bio-chemistry
of plasma interactions with living tissue. He made significant
contribution in plasma applications for wound treatment. Dr. Gary
Friedman also has extensive experience in modeling and design of
magnetic devices.
