Zawiera: Abbreviations; Foreword (H. Figiel); Advanced imaging and image guided technologies (B. Tomanek); Application of in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy in brain tumors (M. Sokół); Sodium magnetic resonance imaging (L.R. Schad); Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical sciences (J.L. Toca Herrera); Advances in tissue microimaging (W. Kwiatek); PET and its hybrid systems - PET CT and PET MR - in clinical practice (M. Trofimiuk Müldner, A. Hubalewska Dydejczyk); New developments in echocardiography (A. Gackowski); Introduction to artificial heart and mechanical heart support systems (Z. Nawrat); History of the artificial heart in Poland (Z. Nawrat); Telemedical tools in health monitoring of the elderly (P. Augustyniak); Personalized cranial implants based on porous titanium: design and clinical applications (P. Lipinski, AS. Bonnet, A. Barbas); Reverse engineering in cranioplasty (K. Karbowski, R. Chrzan, M. Moskała, J. Polak, A. Urbanik, W. Sujka); Application of ceramic materials for implants (J. Gawlik, J. Krajewska-Śpiewak); The Krakow Myocardial Regeneration Team impact on the global progress in the field of pre clinical and clinical progenitor cell therapy: inventions and innovations in 2002-2015 (P. Musiałek); Stem cells in the treatment of end stage coronary artery disease - a cardiac surgeon’s perspective (J. Konstanty-Kalandyk, J. Piątek, T. Miszalski-Jamka, M. Urbanczyk-Zawadzka, A. Chrapusta, J. Sadowski); Proton radiation therapy of eye neoplasms (A. Markiewicz, B. Romanowska Dixon); Selected short reports; Appendix 1: Outlines of institutions involved in development of modern medical technologies in Krakow; Appendix 2: Photos from the 1st International Conference INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOMEDICINE, Krakow, October 15-16, 2013.