Diagnostics

This book presents concepts, methods and techniques to examine symptoms of faults and failures of structures, systems and components and to monitor functional performance and structural integrity. The book is organized in five parts. Part A introduces the scope and application of technical diagnostics and gives a comprehensive overview of the physics of failure.

This book provides an in-depth description and discussion of different multi-modal diagnostic techniques for cancer detection and treatment using exact optical methods, their comparison, and combination.

The book comprehensively covers three aspects of diagnostic tests in eye care. It lays equal emphasis on the technology associated with the ophthalmic tests, on appropriate techniques to maximize the input and the clinical applications for comprehensive understanding and usage of ophthalmic diagnostic tests. The book also includes many newer diagnostic devices not described earlier such as teleophthalmology, homecare, and smartphone-based ophthalmic diagnostics.

This volume 2 of a two-volume work provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the most common viral and parasitic diseases in turkeys. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific infectious disease and provides information on pathogenesis, symptoms and therapeutic strategies. The book also addresses nutritional diseases in fattening turkeys, and introduces diagnostic techniques as well as disease prevention and control strategies. The clear and structured layout allows the reader to refer to it quickly.

This book contains a collection of 13 carefully selected papers contributed by researches in technical and partial medical diagnostics as well as fault-tolerant control and constitutes a comprehensive study of the field.