Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications

Foreword

The Arithmetic of Life

Have you ever dived among the molecular landscapes of a rock sample through the “lens” of an electron microscope? Seen into the pitch darkness with an infrared camera? Traveled down your intestine with a miniature pill camera? Examined the toe of a baby scheduled to be born in five months? The world is full of mystery and wonder that’s beyond the reach of our traditional five senses.

Now the time has come for us all to see and feel the magic beyond, inside, and outside of ourselves. Sensing in and around humans is the story of uncovering, discovering, and recovering, whether we’re capturing the signal of our heart beat, measuring oxygen levels in our blood flow, detecting the electrical impulses that bring life ...