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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Diagnostic Instruments in Medicine

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 450-4008/03
Abbreviation LDP
Course title Diagnostic Instruments in Medicine
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Marek Penhaker, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Descriptions and parameters of biological signals. Fundamental terms, impedance symptom of tissue and organ activity organ, their utilization in diagnostics, organs electrical activity.
Registration electrodes. Their fundamental parameters ( electrode voltage, electrical potential, polarization). Variety of electrodes.
ECG - diagnostics instruments, Electrocardiogram - Rise theory, measurement of electrodes quality.
Neurological diagnostics instruments, Basic instruments requirements and parameters, EEG, EMG, EGG
Blood pressure measuring instruments. Basement of blood circulation, noninvasive measurement of blood pressure, pressure sensors, invasive methods.
Diagnosttics instruments for measurement circulation and flow rate. Electromagnetic methods.
Pulse detection instruments frequency, Pulse rate register instruments. Evaluation of frequency changing.
Diagnostics instruments for application on sensations organs. Audiometer, earpiece, eye analyser.
Instruments for fetus application. Urogenital and gastro system.
Equipement for ventilating instruments.
Monitoring. Fundamental knowledge, surgery, surgical, coronary and obstetric ward.
Monitoring systems - ECG
Monitoring systems - respiration, blood pressure, blood flow rate, temperature.
Instruments for ergonomic workplace, Advanced medical equipment for monitoring physical training.


Exercises:
Fundamental idea, Submission of semestral work.
Presentation of semestral work


Laboratories:
Measuring electrodes in some parameters.
Measurement ECG
Measurement EEG and EMG
Measurement of blood pressure by noninvasive method
Measurement of blood pressure by invasive method
Measurement of blood flow
Measurement of pulse rate
Spirometry
Patient ventilating diagnostics systems
Excursion onto specialist workplace
Sonograph of fetus
Project onto physical training monitor

Literature

• BRONZINO, Joseph D. The biomedical engineering handbook. 3rd ed. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 0849321239 .
• WEBSTER, John G., ed. Medical instrumentation: application and design. 3rd ed. S.l.: John Wiley, c1998. ISBN 0-471-15368-0.

Advised literature

• DAVID, Yadin. Clinical engineering. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2003. Principles and applications in engineering. ISBN 0849318130 .
• PEREZ, Reinaldo. Design of medical electronic devices. San Diego: Academic Press, c2002. ISBN 0125507119.
• CARR, Joseph J. a John M. BROWN. Introduction to biomedical equipment technology. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c2001. ISBN 0130104922.
• MACKAY, R. Stuart. Bio-medical telemetry; sensing and transmitting biological information from animals and man. New York: Wiley, 1968.
• FRADEN, Jacob. AIP handbook of modern sensors: physics, designs and applications. 3rd print. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1995. AIP series in modern instrumentation and measurements in physics & engineering. ISBN 1-56396-108-3 .
• OLANSEN, Jon B. a Eric. ROSOW. Virtual bio-instrumentation: biomedical, clinical, and healthcare applications in LabVIEW. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN 0130652164.
• DAVIM, J. Paulo, ed. The design and manufacture of medical devices. Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2012. Woodhead Publishing reviews: mechanical engineering. ISBN 978-1-907568-72-5 .