Biomedical Instrumentation

Students will have demonstrated the ability to: 1. explain the physical and medical principles of biomedical instrumentation; 2. describe different types of electrical medical equipment; 3. analyse and solve problems related to the design of biomedical measurement instruments; 4. describe the underlying physical phenomena, architecture, employed materials, operational modes device/instrumentation; 5. identify and use basic biomedical instrumentation; 6. classify medical instruments based on different principles with application viz - (diagnostic, therapeutic, Imaging, analytical), physiological parameter and biopotential, biological system, in other departments in the hospital; 7. illustrate the different types of medical transducers used in medical instruments for body temperature, blood pressure, and respiration rate; and 8. comprehend the physics of various biomedical transducers, such as electrodes, displacement transducers, thermocouples, thermistors, and flow meters.

Introduction to biomedical instrumentation: basic biomedical instrumentation system. General considerations in the design of biomedical instrumentation systems. Biomedical measurements: errors in measurement. Biological signals: bioelectric signals. Biomedical sensors and transducers-types and forms. Physiological measurements: audiology; cardiac physiology; gastrointestinal tract physiology; neurophysiology; ophthalmic and vision science; respiratory physiology; urodynamic physiology; vascular technology; blood pressure measurement; blood flow measurements; measurement of the respiratory system; ECG measurement systems. Clinical laboratory instrumentation. Electrical safety in instrumentation. Introduction to Biomedical signal processing.