This book is based upon Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement which we wrote in 1981. That book had grown in turn out of a booklet which had been used in the Sheffield Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering for the training of our technical staff. The intention behind our writing had been to give practical information which would enable the reader to carry out a very wide range of physiological measurement and treatment techniques which are often grouped under the umbrella titles of medical physics, clinical engineering and physiological measurement. However, it was more fulfilling to treat a subject in a little depth rather than.
