BIOM 5100 / BMG 5103 / SYSC5302 / ELG 6321  Bioinstrumentation/Principles & Design of Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation

Description

Instrumentation designed to measure physiological variables related to the function of the heart, lungs, kidney, nervous and musculo-skeletal system; emergency, critical care, surgery and anaesthesia equipment.

Prerequisites

OCIECE and OCIBME graduate students.

Instructor

Miodrag Bolic

Email: mbolic@eecs.uottawa.ca

 

 

Times and Locations

 (Sept. 4 − Dec. 3)

 

Lecture 1

Wednesday 11:30 - 13:00

SMD 221

 

 

Lecture 2

Friday 11:30 - 13:00

MCD 121

 

Text

No text book

Recommended reading:

John G. Webster, Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design, 
− 4rd Edition: ISBN: 0-471-67600-3 Hardcover 671 pages

Marks

Work

 

Value

Quizzes

  

 35%

Final

  

 35%

Presentation

  

 30%

− Proposal

  

 8%

− Presentation and Report

  

 22%

 

 

 

 

Quizzes will be given using Top Hat: tophat.com/e/045321. Please bring a computer and register on Top Hat as soon as possible. There will be quizzes every week.

You will be required to prepare for the class and to read in advance. The quiz will include questions covered during last week and topics that you read in preparing for the class.

 

Preliminary syllabus

 

General theory – 1-2  weeks

Biomedical circuits and systems 3-4 weeks

Medical devices: 5-6 weeks

Advanced topics 2-3 weeks

 

  1. Biomedical instrumentation - introduction - Webster Ch 1 [1]
  2. Transducers: ch 47 [3]

 

  1. Origins of biopotentials. Excitable Cells. Nernst and resting potentials. Action Potentials: Biomechanics and Bioelectricity1.pdf Chapter 14 [6], Additional material: Webster Ch 4 [1]
  2. BIOPOTENTIAL ELECTRODES  ch 48 [3], Additional material: Biomedical sensors and Instrumentation Ch 6 [4], Ion Diffusion, Electrodes and electrolytes, Webster Ch 5
  3. BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIERS ch 70 [3]
  4. A/D and D/A converters Perez Ch 5 [2], Additional material: ADCs FOR DSP APPLICATIONS
  5. System design and Safety of medical devices, Webster Ch14 [1]

 

8.       ECG – Baura Ch2 [2]

9.       EEG – Baura Ch 13 [2]

10.   EMG – Ch 14 [3]

11.   Blood pressure Baura Ch 7 [2]

12.   Pulse oximetry -  Baura Ch 11 [2]

13.   Respiration –Webster Ch 9 [1], Spirometry ch 74 [3]

14.   Bioimpedance measurements Ch 73 [3]

 

15.   Brain-computer interfaces

16.   Functional stimulation Baura Ch 16 [2]

17.   Electrodes for stimulation - Esential neuromodulation  Ch 6

18.   Electrical and magnetic brain stimulation: Tdcs and tms

 

 

References

[1] John G. Webster (Ed.), Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design,  4rd Edition.

[2]Gail Baura, Medical Device Technologies: A Systems Based Overview Using Engineering Standards, October 21, 2011.

[3] Joseph D. Bronzino (Ed.), The Biomedical Engineering HandBook, Second Edition, 2000.

[4] Tatsuo Tagawa, Toshiyo Tamura and P. Ake Oberg, Biomedical Sensors and Instruments, Second Edition, 2011.

[5] Reinaldo Perez, Design of Medical Electronic Devices,  2002.

[6] Douglas A. Christensen, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering: Biomechanics and Bioelectricity, 2009.

 

 

 

Project

Some ideas for potential topics:

Review

·         Biosensors: Enzymatic Biosensors, Affinity Biosensors, Living Biosensors, Direct Methods for Monitoring Bioactive Compounds

·         Plug-and-play sensors

·         Instrumentation challenges for non-invasive brain stimulation

·         New challenges for blood pressure: estimating central blood pressure and arterial stiffness with the cuff

·         In depth study of a medical instrumentation application

·        

Experiment (you need to have access to medical devices or data acquisition systems)

 

 

The project should involve: review of a new topic, classifications based on new criteria, analysis of at least 10 references that should include mainly journal papers but can also include books and conference papers. A project must provide an in depth investigation of the scientific literature. Students must ensure their report is comprehensive and synthesizes information from multiple sources. Reports which simply follow one primary reference will not be worth high marks.

Project proposal is minimum two pages proposal with references. It should point out novelties of your approach (novel review, new type of classification, …)

Project report should include power point slides with the write-up and references under each slide to cover about 40 min talk (about 40 slides). Besides power point slides you will submit references and a reference document prepared using Docear (http://www.docear.org/software/download/).

 

Deadlines: Project proposal October 20, 2013

Slides and Docear file: Dec 1, 2013