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Transducers and Sensors in Biomedicine

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 450-2013/01
Abbreviation SSB
Course title Transducers and Sensors in Biomedicine
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Martin Augustynek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Electronics in medicine, electrical characteristics of live tissue, electrical characteristics of cells, provocativeness of tissue by electrochemical stimulation, excitement conducting in tissue
Sensors and his division, sensing, measurement chain
Properties and characteristics of sensors, statical and dynamical characteristics, systematics and random errors, probability distribution function
Pressure sensors, Sensors for non – invasive measurement, auscultatory method, oscilometrics sensor, invasive sensor measurement, extra vascular sensor of blood pressure, pressure sensor with optical fibers.
Flow sensors, basic concept, electromagnetical flow sensors, per vascular electromagnetis flowmeter, intravascula electromagnetic flow meter, thermoanenometrics flow meter sensor, differential manometer sensor, ultrasound flow meter, dosing dosing sensors
Thermal quantity sensors, Contact temperature measurement, mercury thermometer, electronical thermometer, contact less temperature measurement of human body
Chemical quantities sensor, pH measurement sensor, glass and metal pH sensors, ion selective electrodes, PO2 oxygen partial pressure sensor
Biopotential electrodes, half cell potential, half cell potential setoff, material for sensor making, electronical characteristics of electrodes, substitute circuit skin electrode, electrode impedantion and frequency dependence, type of electrodes. Surface and undersurface electrodes, microelectrodes.
Biosensors
Magnetic field sensors, megnetopnaumotachography, magnetic field detectors
Ionizing radiation detectors, ionizing radiation, basic dosimetrics units and quantities, photographic detectors, ionizing chamber, Geiger – Muller detector, scintillation detector, solid-state detectors, in vivo radioactivity measurement. artificial retinue
Acoustic quantity sensors, phonocardiography, basic conception and sensors in phonocardiography, impaired hearing measurement, audiometry sensors
Mechanical quantities sensors, knee Angeles sensors, accelerometers, piesoelectric akcelerometry, piesoresistive akcelerometry, heat accelerometers, gyroskopes
Some of biosignal characteristics in correspondence on sensors and siganl processing systems

Laboratory excercise:
Introduction to laboratory rules, safety indoctrination
Laboratory exercise no.1 - solid-state temperature sensor
Laboratory exercise no.2 - solid-state pressure sensors
Laboratory exercise no.3 – Hall phenomena, magnetic field measurement
Consultation for the exercise 1-3
Laboratory exercise no.4 – solid state sensor with temperature measurement in pulse width modulated signal
Laboratory exercise no.5 – solid sgtate image sensors
Laboratory exercise no.6 – photoelectric sensors of positon
Consultation for the exercise 3-6
Laboratory exercise no.7 - monolithic accelerometer
Laboratory exercise no.8 – dynamic characteristics of solid state sensors
Laboratory exercise no.9 – chemical sensor measurement pH
Laboratory exercise no.10 – flow sensor measurement
Consultation for the exercise 7-10

Projects: Each student gets awarded throughout the semester one larger project that works with the use of measuring and computing.
Creating a separate project no. 1. Design and implementation of a system for measurement and evaluation of data from the sensors.

E-learning

Materials are available at https://bme-data.vsb.cz/

Literature

TOGAWA, Tatsuo, Toshiyo TAMURA a P. ÅKE ÖBERG. Biomedical Sensors and Instruments. 2nd ed. Hoboken: CRC Press, 2011. ISBN 978-142-0090-796 .
WANG, Ping a Qingjun. LIU. Biomedical sensors and measurement. Heidelberg: Springer, c2011. Advanced topics in science and technology in China. ISBN 978-364-2195-259 .

Advised literature

Senzor technology and Devices,Boston,London, 1994,ISBN 0-89006-532-2
Randy,F. Understanding smart sensors,Boston,London,1996, ISBN 0-89006-824-0