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Biomedical electronics

Course title: Biomedical electronics

Code: FEIT05L041

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course goals/Competences: Obtaining knowledge on medical instrumentation and basic concepts of the interdisciplinary nature of bioinstrumentation. Development of skills and the practical background necessary to inspect, test, calibrate, and repair advanced medical equipment and instrumentation.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Introduction. Basic concepts of medical equipment and instrumentation.  Basic sensors and principles. Amplifiers and signal processing. The origin of biopotentials. Biopotential electrodes. Biopotential amplifiers. Blood pressure and sound. Measurement of flow and volume of blood. Measurements of the respiratory system. Chemical biosensors. Clinical laboratory instrumentation. Medical imaging systems. Therapeutic and prosthetic devices. Electrical safety.

Literature:

Literature

Compulsory literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

John G. Webster

Medical Instrumentation Application and Design, 4‑th edition

Wiley

2009

2

David Prutchi, Michael Norris

Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation

Wiley

2004

3

Reinaldo Perez

Design of Medical Electronic Devices

Academic Press

2002

Further literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

C.R. Rao, S.K. Guha

Principles of Medical Electronics and Biomedical Instrumentation

Universities Press,India

2004