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Autore |
Martel Sylvain |
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Titolo |
A microscopic submarine in my blood : science based on Fantastic voyage : how technology has transformed into reality a classic Hollywood science-fiction movie about a submarine crew that shrinks to microscopic size and ventures into the body |
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Singapore : , : Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd., , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-34071-2 |
1-315-36439-5 |
981-4745-79-0 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biotechnology |
Science in motion pictures |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. The location -- 2. The interventional facility -- 3. The team at the planning briefing -- 4. The submarine -- 5. Miniaturization -- 6. Injection -- 7. Traveling in the artery -- 8. Tracking the position of the submarine -- 9. Propulsion and steering -- 10. Navigating in the bloodstream -- 11. The crew. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book describes at the introductory level how modern technology has made the scenario of the classic science-fiction movie Fantastic Voyage a reality. The movie is about a submarine and its crew members being shrunk to microscopic size and ventured into the body. Exactly 50 years following the release of the film, such reality takes the form of a medical interventional room capable of mimicking this scenario. Based on 15 years of intensive research and development by the world-leading team in this specific field, the book goes through the scenes of the movie while explaining how it is implemented in this first-of-a-kind interventional facility. This is the first book that explains the fundamentals of navigation of therapeutic agents in the vascular network. The scope of the book is twofold: (1) to initiate readers into |
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various technologies, including, but not limited to, nanotechnology, robotics, and biochemistry (more importantly, it shows how critical the integration of all these disciplines is to solving problems that indeed require a multidisciplinary environment); (2) to inspire the younger generation by showing that science and technology can bring one everywhere with the power to transform fiction to reality that can help humankind. |
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