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Reliabilty and Construction of Medical Apparatus

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 450-4042/01
Abbreviation SKLP
Course title Reliabilty and Construction of Medical Apparatus
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Marek Penhaker, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Content of lectures
1. Medical reliability (alarm priority), hardware reliability (degradation resistance), software reliability (robustness of algorithms, quantification of expertise). Accreditation, registration, preconditioning, validation, certification, vigilance, disinfection.
2. Technical and biological systems, biophysics, neurotransmission, homeostasis
3. Bio-oscillograms, cardiogram, Poincaré phologram, hardware subsystems
4. Materials, structure. Strength. Electrical conductivity. Ferromaterials
5. Design criteria. Cooling. Electrothermal analogy.
6. Biomonitor function, rheography, hemodynamics, nomogram
7. Transformers, cardiograph, cardiotocograph, pacemaker, defibrillator, alarm indication.
8. Hematology, sonograph, cryocautery, electroscalpel, lithotriptor, X-ray, NMR, PET

Whiteboard exercises

1. Quantities, units, dimensional analysis
2. Approximation of nonlinearities, Saving amplifier (electronic Ranvier), superposition, series of values
3. Piezoresistance, pressure measurement, ultraacoustics, doppler
4. Acoustic alarm, normalization
5. Bioamplifier, voltage tendency detector, Bioohmmeter, biorhythmicity detector
6. Bioadmittance, defibrillator, Radio communication (telemeter)
7. Drip infusion, solution dosing, electrometer, electrodynamics
8. Lithotriptor, X-ray, transparency, gas analyser

E-learning

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

Literature

Norma IEC 601-1:1988 Medical electrical equipment. Part 1: General requirements for safety (Zdravotnické elektrické přístroje. Část 1: Všeobecné požadavky na bezpečnost

Advised literature

Norma IEC 601-1:1988 Medical electrical equipment. Part 1: General requirements for safety (Zdravotnické elektrické přístroje. Část 1: Všeobecné požadavky na bezpečnost