Biomedical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) I

The Biomedical Engineering Division of the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras engages in a program of research, development and teaching. Stating that a visitor to this institution would, at any time, find a considerable variety of projects and courses being followed as well as active consultation with industry and the medical profession, the author lists some of the major research projects, names of the principal investigators, and gives descriptive summaries. The titles of these projects are: Development of Cardiac Diagnostic Indices; Intuitional Practice: its effect on the practitioner's mental and physiological states and its possible use as a therapy; Guidelines for Plastic Surgery Procedures Based on Structural Analysis; Analysis and Design: Prosthetic Occluding-Type and Leaflet Aortic Valves; Design Analysis of Syme Prosthesis; Probabilistic Population Models: The Theory of Cell Growth Under Change of Environmental Conditions, With Particular Attention to the Formation of Toxic Products and Other Related Phenomena; The Theory of point processes applied for the study of response phenomena: comprehensive description of neural networks taking into account the refractoriness of the neuron; Stochastic modelling in the Quantum theory of vision.