The course introduces to students the four basic components in a medical device, i.e. sensors, signal conditioning, data acquisition and data analysis and display. Students will be offered hands-on experiences to reinforce the knowledge learned in lectures through a set of lab projects. They will build and test amplifiers and filters using operational amplifiers and learn to use LabVIEW extensively throughout the course as the tool for data acquisition and analysis. At the end of the course, the students will build an electrocardiograph which includes an ECG amplifier built on a printed circuit board and LabVIEW program for ECG signal analysis. Topics covered are
- Components of Biomedical Instrumentation
- LabVIEW programming basics
- Sensor basics
- Signal conditioning basics: amplifier and filter built from operational amplifier
- Data acquisition using LabVIEW
- Data analysis using LabVIEW
- Biopotential, biopotential electrodes, biopotential amplifier
- Electronic safety
- Hands-on projects
Prerequisite: BME212
Co-requisite: ESE 271
Textbook:
Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design, 4th edition by John G. Webster
ISBN: 9780471676003
Featured Project: ECG amplifier with MyDAQ
The students are required to build a ECG amplifier on a printed circuit board. The board can be plugged into MyDAQ, a USB data acquisition device powered by LabVIEW. The students will create a LabVIEW VI to collect and analyze ECG signal in real time.