- Artificial organs
- hearing aids, cardiac pacemakers, artificial kidneys/hearts, blood oxygenators, synthetic blood vessels, joints, arms, legs.
- Automated patient monitoring
- during surgery or in intensive care, healthy persons in unusual environments, such as astronauts in space or underwater divers at great depth
- Advanced therapeutic and surgical devices
- laser system for eye surgery, automated delivery of insulin, etc.
- Application of expert systems and artificial intelligence to clinical decision making
- computer-based systems for diagnosing diseases
- Biomaterials design
- mechanical, transport and biocompatibility properties of implantable artificial materials
- Biomechanics of injury and wound healing
- gait analysis, application of growth factors, etc.
- Blood chemistry sensors
- potassium, sodium, O2, CO2, and pH
- Computer modelling of physiologic systems
- blood pressure control, renal function, visual and auditory nervous circuits, etc.
- Design of optimal clinical laboratories
- computerised analyzer for blood samples, cardiac catheterization laboratory, etc.)
- Medical imaging systems
- ultrasound, computer assisted tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, etc.
- Sports medicine
- rehabilitation, external support devices, etc.
