TY - CHAP AU - Shuichi Ino AU - Mitsuru Sato ED - Domenico Campolo Y1 - 2010-01-01 PY - 2010 T1 - A Novel Soft Actuator using Metal Hydride Materials and Its Applications in Quality-of-Life Technology N2 - Biomedical Engineering is a highly interdisciplinary and well established discipline spanning across engineering, medicine and biology. A single definition of Biomedical Engineering is hardly unanimously accepted but it is often easier to identify what activities are included in it. This volume collects works on recent advances in Biomedical Engineering and provides a bird-view on a very broad field, ranging from purely theoretical frameworks to clinical applications and from diagnosis to treatment. BT - New Developments in Biomedical Engineering SP - Ch. 27 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/7602 DO - 10.5772/7602 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -