Skip to main content
Skip header

Transducers and Sensors in Biomedicine

* Exchange students do not have to consider this information when selecting suitable courses for an exchange stay.

Course Unit Code450-2013/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
AUG011prof. Ing. Martin Augustynek, Ph.D.
Summary
Lectures are preparing student for obtaining and analyzing signal from human body by different physical Metod of measurement. The main part is concentrated on medical sensor design, principles,utilization and calibration.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Students are introduced into the biomedical sensors construction, utilization and calibration. The goal of the course is to measure and transfer the biological signal from the human body by different methods.
Course Contents
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.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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.
M. Penhaker, Snímače a senzory v biomedicíně, 1. vyd. ed. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2013.
J. Spišak, M. Imramovský, and M. Penhaker, Snímače a senzory v biomedicíně, 1. vyd. ed. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2007.
TOGAWA, Tatsuo, Toshiyo TAMURA a P. ÅKE ÖBERG. Biomedical Sensors and Instruments. 2nd ed. Hoboken: CRC Press, 2011. ISBN 978-142-0090-796.
Recommended Reading:
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
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.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Individual consultations, Experimental work in labs
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit40 21
        ExaminationExamination60 30