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462 Medical Instrumentation. (Crosslisted with BME) I; 3 cr. Design and application of electrodes, biopotential amplifiers, biosensors, therapeutic devices. Medical imaging. Electrical safety. Measurement of ventilation, blood pressure and flow. Lecture and lab. P: ECE 342 or cons inst.

Course Prerequisite(s)

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

Course objectives

The purpose of the course is to prepare students for choices of either graduate school or employment. They learn the vocabulary of the field by reading the text and from lectures. They learn to analyze systems by solving homework problems. They learn to design systems by performing design themselves by solving homework design problems and by using cooperative learning during lectures. They learn to search for new information using computer databases of articles and patents. They learn to present information by writing a paper.

Students learn best when course expectations are clear. I provide a course outline, homework assignments, exam schedules, grading policies, and list 150 instructional objectives to guide their learning. Exams are open book to encourage learning of problem solving rather than rote learning. Problem-solving skills are essential. Later, when students work on their theses or after graduate work in employment, they must solve problems where the answers are not found in the text or in the teacher's brain.

How can students learn to find information that is not readily available? During homework assignments students search the world wide web, NLS library for books, INSPEC for periodicals, and databases for patents.

How can students learn to select information that is important and reject that which is not? How can the students learn to organize the information in a presentable fashion? Each student writes a paper on a topic not well presented in the text, and I provide feedback to improve their presentation skills.

The above method of instruction prepares students for lifelong learning. Students will know how to find information, select it, and present it.

Topics covered

Class/laboratory schedule

Two 50 minute lectures per week, one 3 hour laboratory section per week.

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component
This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, and does provide design experience.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes
This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

10% Homework using WWW, NLS, INSPEC, patent databases

10% Paper

One paper 1500-2000 words plus 2-4 figures. A selection of possible topics for student papers (select one)

  1. What are ISO standards and why are they important?
  2. What are AAMI standards and why are they important?
  3. Force-sensitive resistors (conductive polymer force sensors)
  4. Tympanic temperature sensors
  5. Intraventricular electrogram mapping
  6. Nonmetallic temperature probes
  7. Measurement of human locomotion
  8. Calorimetry of human metabolism
  9. Intraventricular electrogram mapping
  10. Skin impedance vs time after electrode application
  11. Sieve electrodes for connecting nerve to electronics
  12. Somatosensory evoked potentials
  13. Measuring ECG through defibrillation electrodes
  14. Dc-coupled ECG amplifier
  15. ECG amplifier voltage-limiting devices
  16. Infrared telemetry
  17. Oscillometric blood pressure measurement
  18. Peñás method of blood pressure measurement
  19. Arterial tonometry measurement of blood pressure
  20. Bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy
  21. Galvanic skin response
  22. Measurements in a sleep laboratory
  23. Reversible-dye optical fiber measurement of pH
  24. Pulse oximeter equations
  25. Measuring glucose through the skin by electrophoresis
  26. Measuring glucose through the skin using spectrophotometery
  27. Circuit for Coulter cell counter
  28. Circuit for rate-responsive cardiac pacemaker
  29. Implantable cardiac defibrillators
  30. Breathing pacemakers
  31. Artificial vision
  32. Pain suppression
  33. Judicial electrocution
  34. Shotgun optical mapping
  35. Your own topic

60% Three one-hour exams

20% 0ne-page lab reports

12 selected from the following 3-hour lab experiments:

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Date last modified: 22-Aug-2009
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