EE 495 Biomedical Equipment

Fall 2007: 3 credits

Taught by

pushkin@vt.edu

Grading

Tests/HW: 65%; Final: 30%; Attendance: 5% Guaranteed Grades: A- ( > 90%); B- ( > 80%); C- ( > 70%);

Lecture Room

TBE B176

Lecture Time

F 2:30P.M. to 5:20 P.M.

Office Hours

Location: TBE B108;

Textbook

Textbook

Introduction to Biomedical Equipment Technology (4th Edition) 
Joseph J. Carr , John M. Brown

Recommended

Intelligent Sensor Design Using the Microchip dsPIC

Creed Huddleston

T.A.

 

Office Hours

 

Schedule

Dates

Days

Topics

Material

Aug 31

 

Biosignals

Notes

Sept 7

 

 Human Computer Interfacing

Notes Bio-Circuits

Sept 14

 

Interface Electronics

EKG Example#1 circuit   Example#2 Circuit

Sept 21

 

OpAmp Circuits

741OpAmp   Circuits   D/A Converter 

Sept 28

 

Oscillators, PIC Microcontroller

Bode Plots   W-B Oscillator  OP-Amp Osc Oscillators PIC16F84A

Oct 5

 

Test 1 (Ch1-8); Student Presentations, Osc., DSPic

DSPic  Development Board   Archiecture

Oct 12

 

 

Blood Pressure Monitor

Oct 19

 

Test 2 (Op Amps and Oscillators)

 

Oct 26

 

 

 

Nov 2

 

Project1 Presentation and Demo

 

Nov 9

 

 

 

Nov 16

 

Veteran Day Recess

 

Nov 23

 

 

 

Nov 30

 

 

 

Dec 7

 

Final Project and Demo

 

Topics

The course will cover the following:
 1. The Human Body: An Overview.
 2. The Heart and Circulatory System.
 3. Introduction to Biomedical Instrumentation & Measurement.
 4. Basic Theories of Measurement.
 5. Signals and Noise.
 6. Electrodes, Sensors, and Transducers.
 7. Bioelectric Amplifiers.
 8. Electrocardiographs.
 9. Physiological Pressure and Other Cardiovascular Measurements and Devices.
10. The Human Respiratory System and Its Measurement.
11. Respiratory Therapy Equipment.
12. The Human Nervous System
13. Instrumentation for Measuring Brain Function.
14. Intensive and Coronary Care Units.
15. Operating Rooms.
16. Medical Laboratory Instrumentation.
17. Medical Ultrasonography.
18. Electrosurgery Generators.
19. Waveform Display Devices.
20. Electro-Optics (Fiber Optics and Lasers).
21. Computers in Biomedical Equipment.
22. Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Equipment.
23. Electromagnetic Interference to Medical Electronic Equipment.

The course will also cover actual details of hands-on development of a bioinstrument using a DSPic and embedded software.