ECE 414 - Biomedical Instrumentation

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
B LEC 1100 - 1150 M W F   269 Everitt Lab  Kenneth Gentry

Web Page http://www.bioen.uiuc.edu/courses/bioe414/bioe414.htm
Official Description Same as BIOE 414. See BIOE 414.
Hours 3 hours.
Subject Area Biomedical Imaging, Bioengineering, and Acoustics
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 205 or ECE 210
Course Directors Kenneth Gentry
Description Introduction to engineering aspects of the detection, acquisition, processing, and display of signals from living systems; biomedical transducers for measurements of biopotentials, ions and gases in aqueous solution, force, displacement, blood pressure, blood flow, heart sounds, respiration, and temperature; therapeutic and prosthetic devices.
Notes Same as BIOE 414.
Credit 3 hours
Goals The goal of the course is to teach students about the principles, applications and design of medical instrumentation.
Topics
  • Basic concepts of medical and clinical instrumentation
  • Basic concepts of medical diagnosis and statistical analysis
  • Biopotentials, biosensors, and amplifiers
  • Action potentials, EMG, EEG, EOG, ECG, and average evoked potentials
  • Electrical safety: how and why accidents happen. Injury mechanisms.
  • Basic concepts of diagnostic ultrasound, plain x-ray, CT, MRI, PET, and SPECT
  • Cardiac rhythm interpretation with relationship to defibrillation and pacing
  • Tests used in medical care and research: cardiovascular, imaging, and blood analysis
  • Blood flow measurement by ultrasound, laser, and electromagnetic methods
Computer Usage
  • Finding medical, biological, and engineering information on the internet and elsewhere will be discussed.
  • Reading assignments from literature obtainable through the internet will be assigned, in addition to the main text.
Course Prerequisites ECE 205 or 210.
Topical Prerequisities
  • Basic Circuit theory
  • Differential equations
  • Basic time/frequency domain concepts
Texts Webster, Biomedical Instrumentation, Wiley, 2004.

Dubin, Rapid Interpretation of EKGs, Cover Publishing, 2000.

Khandpur, Biomedical Instrumentaion, McGraw Hill, 2005.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 1 credit
Engineering Design: 2 credits