Description:

Students will study fundamental principles applied within the modern medical devices and systems, esp. from the point of view of functional blocks and electronic circuits of diagnostical and therapeutical medical equipments including electrocardiographs, electroencephalographs, bedside and central monitors, equipments for anestesiology, intensive and critical healthcare, equipments for clinical laboratory, electrostimulators, cardiostimulators and defibrilators, blood pressure and flow measurement (including dilution) and pulse oxymetry.

Contents:

1. Classification and structures of medical equipments, parametres of medical equipments
2. Biopotential electrodes, amplifiers for measuring devices
3. Electrocardiographs, cardiostimulators, defibrilators
4. ECG - circuits design, diagnostics
5. Cardiostimulators, defibrilators - circuits design
6. Devices for blood pressure and flow measurement, pulse oxymeters
7. Electroencephalography, electromyography, measuring of body temperature
8. Devices for clinical laboratory with application of analytical methods
9. Devices for ophthalmology
10. Basics of ultrasonography diagnostics
11. Devices for intensive care, supporting ventilation
12. Radiotherapy, X radiation and high energy radiation equipment, stereotactic radiosurgery, Leksell gamma knife
13. Telemedicine, robotic medicine

Seminar contents:

1. Introduction to seminars, regulations for experimental work, safety regulations.
2. Amplifiers for measuring devices
3. Explanations of laboratory experiments, reservations of individual works
4. Laboratory experiments
5. Laboratory experiments
6. Laboratory experiments
7. Laboratory experimants
8. Laboratory experiments
9. Laboratory experiments
10. Excursion
11. Excursion
12. Presentations of individual works
13. Presentations of individual works

Recommended literature:

1. Rozman, J. a kol.: Elektronické přístroje v lékařství. Praha: Academia. 2006.
2. Penhaker, M. a kol.:Lékařské diagnostické přístroje - učební texty. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava. 2004.
3. Webster, J. G.: Medical Instrumentation - Application and Design. Wiley, 4 edition, 2007.
4. Bronzino, J. D.: Biomedical Engineering Fundamentals. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2006.
5. Bronzino, J. D.: Medical Devices and Systems. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2006.

Keywords:

medical instrumentation

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar