EC-604 (B) · BIOMEDICAL ELECTRONICS/Official Syllabus
BIOMEDICAL ELECTRONICS (EC-604 (B)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
PHYSIOLOGY AND TRANSDUCERS
- Cell and its structure - Resting and Action Potential
- Nervous system: Functional organization of the nervous system - Structure of nervous system, neurons - synapse -transmitters and neural communication
- Cardiovascular system - respiratory system - Basic components of a biomedical system
- Transducers - selection criteria - Piezo electric, ultrasonic transducers
- Temperature measurements - Fiber optic temperature sensors
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Unit 2
ELECTRO - PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS
- Electrodes -Limb electrodes -floating electrodes - propelled disposable electrodes - Micro, needle and surface electrodes
- Amplifiers: Preamplifiers, differential amplifiers, chopper amplifiers -Isolation amplifier
- ECG - EEG - EMG - ERG - Lead systems and recording methods - Typical waveforms
- Electrical safety in medical environment: shock hazards - leakage current-Instruments for checking safety parameters of biomedical equipments
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Unit 3
NON-ELECTRICAL PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS
- Measurement of blood pressure - Cardiac output - Heart rate - Heart sound
- Pulmonary function measurements - Spiro meter - Photo Plethysmography, Body Plethysmography
- Blood Gas analyzers : pH of blood -measurement of blood pCO2, pO2, finger-tip oxymeter - ESR, GSR measurements
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Unit 4
MEDICAL IMAGING
- Radio graphic and fluoroscopic techniques
- Computer tomography - MRI
- Ultrasonography - Endoscopy - Thermography
- Different types of biotelemetry systems and patient monitoring - Introduction to Biometric systems
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Unit 5
ASSISTING AND THERAPEUTIC EQUIPMENTS
- Pacemakers - Defibrillators - Ventilators
- Nerve and muscle stimulators - Diathermy
- Heart -Lung machine - Audio meters - Dialysers - Lithotripsy
Reference Books
- Bio-Medical Instrumentation — M.Arumugam — Anuradha Agencies
- Principles of Applied Bio-Medical Instrumentation — L.A. Geddes, L.E.Baker — John Wiley & Sons
- Medical Instrumentation — J.Webster — John Wiley & Sons
- Principles of Medical Electronics and Bio-medical Instrumentation — C.Rajarao, S.K. Guha — Universities press (India) Ltd, Orient Longman ltd
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