Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- THE EDITORS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Contents -- Basic Physics of Physical Sensors -- Chapter 1 Physical Measurements of the Human Body -- Chapter 2 Disturbance Phenomena in Pressure Measurement -- Chapter 3 Physiologic Flows and Their Measurement -- State of the Art -- Chapter 4 Transducers for In Vivo Measurement of Force, Strain and Motion -- Chapter 5 Recent Developments in Pressure Measurements -- Chapter 6 A Review of Current Optical Techniques for Biomedical Physical Measurements -- Applications of Physical Sensors in Life Sciences -- Chapter 7 The Application of Physical Sensors to Studies of the Cardiovascular System -- Chapter 8 Integrated Circuit Force Transducers for Chronic Implantation -- Chapter 9 Laser Doppler Velocimetry Using Fiber Optics with Applications to Transparent Flow and Cardiovascular Circulation -- Chapter 10 Obtaining Proprioceptive Information From Natural Limbs: Implantable Transducers vs. Somatosensory Neuron Recordings -- Index