Basics of Medical Electronics - A0M31ZLE

Credits 4
Semesters Summer
Completion Assessment + Examination
Language of teaching Czech
Extent of teaching 2P+2L
Annotation
Students will study fundamental principles applied within the modern medical devices and systems, esp. from the point of view of functional blocks and electronic circuits of diagnostical and therapeutical medical equipments including electrocardiographs, electroencephalographs, bedside and central monitors, equipments for anestesiology, intensive and critical healthcare, equipments for clinical laboratory, electrostimulators, cardiostimulators and defibrilators, blood pressure and flow measurement (including dilution) and pulse oxymetry.
Study targets
The main goal is to offer the basic knowledge in the field of medical equipment and to provide the practice with selected devices in laboratories for students.
Course outlines
1. Basics of physiology
2. Biological signals, artefacts of biological signals
3. Classification of medical equipments, biopotential electrodes
4. Amplifiers for measuring devices
5. Electrocardiographs
6. Cardiostimulators, defibrilators
7. Equipments for blood pressure and flow measurement
8. Electroencephalography
9. Electromyography, measuring of body temperature
10. Spirometry, pulse oxymetry
11. Basics of ultrasonography diagnostics
12. Advanced imaging methods - RTG, CT, MRI, PET
13. Radiotherapy, X radiation and high energy radiation equipment, stereotactic radiosurgery
14. Telemedicine
Exercises outlines
1. Introduction to seminars, regulations for experimental work, safety regulations. MicroCap - explanation of system
2. Projects
3. Explanations of laboratory experiments
4. Amplifiers for measuring devices
5. Laboratory experiments
6. Laboratory experiments
7. Laboratory experiments
8. Laboratory experimants
9. Laboratory experimants
10. Projects
11. Laboratory experimants
12. Projects
13. Presentations of individual works
Literature
1. Webster, J. G.: Medical Instrumentation - Application and Design. Wiley, 4 edition, 2007.
2.Bronzino, J. D.: The Biomedical Engineering Handbook. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 1995
Requirements
Presence in seminars, laboratory practice, semestral work