Course overview
In this course, you will learn key measurement principles of sensors found in health technologies, ranging from medical devices used in hospitals to wearables for fitness monitoring. You will learn how to build bio-potential amplifiers and record and interpret your own bioelectrical data (e.g. heart activity, muscle activity). You will gain insight into the working principles underlying the instrumentation for measuring respiratory and cardiovascular function such as blood pressure, blood flow as well as biochemical sensors and neuro-stimulators.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe the origin of biopotentials and explain the role of biopotential electrodes
- Design and operate biopotential amplifiers;
- Inspect common biomedical signals and distinguish characteristic features
- Identify common signal artifacts, their sources and formulate strategies for their suppression
- Outline the design of cardiac pacemakers, neurostimulators and defibrillators
- Explain and contrast measurement principles for blood flow, pressue and volume as well as respiratory variables
- Define and discuss biochemical sensors
- Identify, explain and judge patient safety issues related to biomedical instrumentation.
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