World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering September 7 - 12, 2009 Munich, Germany (eBook)

Preface 6
Table of Contents 9
Assessment of Neuromuscular Function with a New Ground Reaction Force Platform Using Power Spectrum Analysis Technique 18
Evaluation of safety observance in using of Intravenous Contrast media In Iran 22
Biomedical Physics Education of Medical and Healthcare Personnel the Cyprus Experience 26
A Distribution Strategy for Imaging Centers in the Costa Rican Public Health System 29
INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS BASED ON ONTOLOGIES AND 3D VISUALIZATION PLATFORMS IN THE TEACHING OF THE HUMAN ANATOMY 33
The Importance of a Safety Culture in Healthcare Facilities for the Development of an Incident Investigation System 37
A mobile biosensor using living cells for water quality analysis 41
Training of Qualified Medical Physicists: Problems and Struggles in AFOMP Region 44
Changes in the Water Content of the Skin during the Early Neonatal Period 47
Teaching Signal Processing to the Medical Profession 51
The Beginnings of a Subject on the “Development of Medical Devices” within the “European Higher Education Area” Framework 54
Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology: A ’Learning-by-Doing Approach’ 58
Strengthening Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) in East Africa 62
More Attention to Risk Class I Medical Devices Navigation Arm Systems and Equipment Trolleys 65
Developing a Database of Generic Specifications for Medical Equipment for Healthcare Institutions in a Developing Country 68
A Medical Biophysics Conceptual Base for Medical / Healthcare / Technology Students at the Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk Uni., Brno 71
Assessment on a Safe use of a Home Telemedicine System regarding Electromagnetic Compatibility 74
Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Assessments in Biomedical Education 78
Planning of Medical Physicists Education for Radiotherapy in Russia 82
Creating an Independent International Medical Physics Board 85
Biomedical Engineering Education and Training in Nigeria 88
Medical Devices Put to Test – How Safe and Intuitive are Blood Sugar Meters? 92
Health Technology Management in a Developing Country Like the Philippines 94
Improving the Methodological Approach to Evaluate the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Primary Health Care in Cuba 98
Problem Based Practical Courses (PBPC) Combine Student Motivation, Self-structuring and Responsibility in Biomedical Education 102
Developed and applications of a novel ceramic-controlled piezoelectric due to an implant of Pt-wire into the body of single di 106
Towards Appropriate Selection and Procurement of Medical Devices: A Proposed Model for Health Care Planners 110
Education and Training of Medical Physicists in Europe and the Countries of North America: Similarities-Differences-General Guidelines 114
Educational Development of Biomedical Engineering in China 118
Health Technology Assessment for a Service Contract: a new method for decisional tools. 122
Cleaning Evaluation and Cross-Contamination in Drug Repackaging Systems 126
Electromagnetic Fields – A Basic Carcinogenic Factor of Children Oncology 129
Abnormal Mass Detection in a Real Breast Model: A Computational Tactile Sensing Approach 132
Biomedical Physics Education for the Healthcare Profession: Quality and Safety as the Starting Points 136
Biomedical Physics Education for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiographers in Europe – A Review 140
From biomedical research to viable products on the health care market - a North Sweden model called CMTF . 144
Web 2.0 and Medical Physics 148
Bioengineering assessment of acupuncture 151
Collaboration between academia, manufacturers and healthcare services for development and adoption of medical devices with regard to costs and effects 155
EFOMP Project ‘Biomedical Physics Education for the Healthcare Professions’ – An Update for WC2009 158
Biomedical Device Learning Needs of General Nurses in First Cycle Programs in the Czech Republic 162
Professional Training of Medical Physicists in AFOMP - The Role of IOMP PRC 165
E-Health Readiness Assessment Methodology (EHRAM) 168
Medical Natural Sciences: a new academic program to train biomedical researchers 172
A Module for Virtual Training: Calibration of High Energy Photon and Electron Beams According the IAEA Code of Practice TRS 398 176
Status and Perspectives of Qualification in Radiation Oncology Physics in Bangladesh 179
HTA (Health Technology Assessment): A Means to Reach Governance Goals and to Guide Health Politics on the Topic of Clinical Risk Management 183
Clinical simulation - Complementary Study Strategy in Medical Technological Education 187
Medical Physics Education in Bangladesh and Cooperation with Germany 190
Temporal distribution of atrial arrhythmic episodes 194
Development and Evaluation of a Formal-Analytical Usability Analysing Tool for Medical Devices and Systems 197
Health Technology Assessment of Home Monitoring for the Continuity of Care of patient suffering from congestive heart failure. 201
RFId-based tracking and safety system. 205
Bioethics and Empowerment in health management 209
Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation Research Collaboration between Universiti Kuala Lumpur, deNuo Sdn. Bhd. and Flinders University, Australia 213
Multidisciplinary School as a BME Teaching Option 217
Medical Physics Education and Training: Regional and International Challenges 221
Biomedical Physics Education for Healthcare Professions: A Lithuanian Contribution 225
EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics with Multilingual Dictionary 229
Estimation Accuracy of Human COG Trajectory Using Accelerometer 232
An analysis for electrical noise of electric bulb shaped fluorescent tube to maintain security level of medical use RFID tag 234
A Model for Effective and Efficient Teleteaching of Medical Physics 238
Issues in E-Health Cost Impact Assessment 240
Increasing Preload Reduced Actin-Myosin Interaction in Isolated Beating Rat Whole Heart Under Hypoxia 244
The Current Status of Medical Physics in Asia-Oceania 248
Strategy for Radiotherapy Development in Russia 250
VERT: Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training 253
Technology behind Video Lectures for Biomedical Engineering 256
A setup for checking electromagnetic interference between implantable cardiac pacemaker and RFID UHF 260
Risk Assessment in Radiotherapy – Lessons from Systems Engineering 268
Web site Development for EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia and Multilingual Dictionary 272
Improving the interpretation of Patent Data by the employment of the Semantic- Web formalism in the specific context of Biomedical Technology 274
Development and Application of New Storage-Technologies for Effective and Secure Cryobanking 278
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasound Experience from the EMIT and EMITEL e-Learning and e-Encyclopedia Projects 281
SEMIO: an expert system for monitoring critical hospital infrastructures 284
An e-learning experience for medical education in Mediterranean countries 288
Bioengineering Education in Romania 292
Employees' Commitment for ISO 9000 Implantation in a Philanthropic General Hospital: A Case Study by Multiple Correspondence Analysis 294
Text Mining for Automatic Lexical Analysis of Layman Text of Biomedical Argument 298
Magnetic Resonance (MR) Safety and Compatibility – Survey of Methods and Standards for Testing and Marking Medical Devices 302
EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia Links with EMERALD e-Learning Modules 305
Medical Physics Training Programme at Chulalongkorn University and Evaluation of Its Effectiveness 308
The Role of National Radiation Regulatory Agencies in the Education and Training of Medical Physicists in the Republic of the Philippines 312
Incident reports to BfArM support the importance of usability for patient safety 315
Application of Neuro-Fuzzy Technology in Medical Diagnosis: Case Study of Heart Failure 318
Implementation of the 3R–strategy in the case of the development of a novel active lung model 322
Classification of Cardiac Arrhythmias Using PNN Neural Network Based on ECG Feature Extraction 326
Future of personalized therapies in diabetes mellitus: A crossroads among EHR, knowledge management and digital healthcare 329
EHR access rights and the role of the patient 333
Electronic Medical Equipment: Statistics and Analysis of Patent Data for Technology Assessment 337
Assessment and Development of Competency of Clinical Engineering Practitioners – South East Asian Experience 341
Forgotten Costs: – The Dilemma of Medical Equipment Economy in Developing Countries 344
Present Status of Medical Radiological Physics in Bulgaria 347
The enhancement of the radiotherapy resources in Osaka, Japan based on the Japanese structure surveys in 2003 and 2005
IOMP Model Curriculum for postgraduate (MSc-level) education programme on Medical Physics 353
Autism and Technology: an approach to new technology-based therapeutic tools 357
Biomedical Engineering as a Major within Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - Pros and Cons 361
Towards Patient Empowerment – Can the Patient Really Decide? 362
Human resources as an important factor in the management of medical equipment: Institutions involved and their expertise in Peru 366
Development of an electronic device based on the concept of masked voice 370
Investigation of Intraindividual Difference in Vigilance Index of Saccade Based on Rated Facial Sleepiness 373
Ultra Small Disposable Incontinence Sensor with RFID tag 377
A home-based care model of cardiac rehabilitation using digital technology 379
Medical Process Management – An Innovative Master of Science Program Addressing the Challenges Faced by Health Care Systems 383
Biomedical Engineering Education and Training in India – A Need for New Approach 385
Accreditation and Certification in Biomedical Engineering in the Czech Republic 389
The Regulation of the Clinical Engineering Profession as an Important Contribution to Quality Assurance in Health Care 393
Infant Travel for Obtaining Medical Assistance: Factors Suggested by Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Associative Ellipsoid 396
Teaching and Learning of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Ukrainian Medical Universities 400
A simple laboratory method for teaching how electrocardiogram is generated 402
Development of Portable Monitoring Device with an Accelerometer and GPS Receiver for Health Management 405
Cooperative Installation of the Medical Physics Online Study Program “Master of Advanced Physical Methods in Radiotherapy“ 407
Women in Science in Europe: EU Policies for the Promotion of Women Scientists and the Role of the European Platform of Women Scientists in Shaping Them 410
Indicators for Evaluating and Measuring the Impact of Healthcare Infrastructure and Technology Management on Investments, Service Delivery and Quality of Care 414
A Microprocessor-based Biofeedback Emotion System 418
Global Courseware for Visualization and Processing Biosignals 421
An Ontology Architecture for HL7 V3: Pitfalls and Outcomes 425
What Is Needed to Finally Achieve Semantic Interoperability? 428
Incorporating Interoperability Functionality for Increasing Patient Safety with PCA-Included Multiple Infusion Therapy 432
Collaborative Clinical Engineering Internship Program between an Academic Institution and a Teaching Hospital 436
Development of a Heart Rate Monitor Based on an Ear Phone 440
Evaluation of Mixed Reality Sickness by Changing the Time Lag between Real Images and Virtual Images in an Advanced Driver Assistance System 443
Certification of Clinical Engineers in Sweden 447
Research on Trusted Personal Health and Wellness Information in Ubiquitous Health Information Space 449
Incremental Semantic Enrichment of Narrative Content in Electronic Health Records 453
Patient Empowerment by Ontology-Based Multi-lingual Systems 456
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): A Method for Coping with Low Frequency Noise Annoyance 460
Author Index 464