Contentsand Technical ProgramOpening of the Program Thursday, April 14, 1977Plenary SessionGreetingsGuest LecturerSession 1A Biomaterials Biological Response to Plasma Formed Polymeric Films Metal Allergy and its Role in the Biocompatibility of Orthopaedic Implants Experimental and Analytical Studies of Classical and Stress Gradient Piezoelectricity in Bone Importance of Dynamic Parameter t in Evaluating Bilayer Membranes Exposed to Local Anesthetics The Handling Characteristics of Surgical Sutures Composite Materials for Lightweight Orthotic Devices Session 2A Biomechanics The Effect of Fluoride on the Physical Properties of Bone The Effect of Soft Tissue on the Non-Invasive Techniques of Determining the Mechanical Properties of Bone Load Bearing Capacity of Traction Pins: A Bio-mechanical Study Experimental Investigation of Femoral Fracture Knee Impedance Testing Dynamical Characteristics of a Sheet-Flow Membrane OxygenatorSession 3A Biomechanical Instrumentation A Contouring Method for the Back An Improved Inexpensive Force Transducer Modeled After the Arkans Transducer, and Its Applications A Moving Platform System for the Study of Induced Body Sway Forearm Rotation Rationale for Knee Prosthetics Failure and Guidelines for the FutureSession 4A Computer Courses for BME Education A Survey of Computer Courses in Biomedical Engineering Education Computer Applications in Biomedical Engineering Computer-Assisted Instruction: A View from the Health Health Educator's PerspectiveSession 5A Computer Courses for BME Education Computer Applications in Patient Management-Its Impact Upon Medical Technologists Simulation and the Bioengineer Computers in Public Health Digital Computer Processing of Physiological SignalsSession 6A Prothestic Devices and Systems Personality Determiners of Successful Prosthetic and Sensory Aid Use Adaptive Communications Enhancement for Nonverbal Physically Handicapped Computer Animation as a Tool for Teaching Reading to the Physically Handicapped The Computer as Informational Prosthetic for the Child with Severe Communication HandicapsSession 7A Clinical Engineering Effectiveness of a Doctor-Nurse-Engineer Team in the Design of Special Care Units Biomedical Engineering in the Veterans Administration Radiology and the Engineer: New Challenges and New Opportunities Educational Demands for Biomédical Equipment Technicians Reducing Electrosurgical Hazards for Transurethral ResectionsSession IB Signal Processing Spectral Measures of Heart Murmurs as an Aid to Clinical Diagnosis Computer-Controlled Parametric Studies of Evoked Responses in Humans Compensation of Fluid-Filled Catheter Pressure Waveforms by Linear Predictive Analysis and Digital Inverse Filtering Image Enhancement of Conventional Transverse-Axial Tomograms Real-Time Computation of EMG Power Density Spectra by Fast Walsh-Hadamard TransformationSession 2B Computers in Medicine Use of a Shifting Bar Pattern as a Stinulus in Human Pupillary Research for the Detection of Retinal Color Mechanisms Television, Computers and the Behavior of Sick Bugs Computerized Program for the Investigation of the Electrophysiological Characteristics of the Heart Learning Pains in Beginning a Computer Aided Cardio-vascular Laboratory Computer Applications in Breast Cancer Treatment Tufts-New England Medical Center HospitalSession 3B Modeling and Simulation Effect of Rib Cage Parameters on Low Order Model Approximation of Respiratory Mechanics: A Liapunov Modeling Process Feedback Mechanisms and Epilepsy: Possible Role of the Cerebellum A Non-Linear Model of Intraaortic Balloon Pumping Simulation Analysis of a New Control Unit for In-Series Cardiac Assist Devices A Decision-Theoretic Analysis of the Indications of Medical Examinations A Time Domai
