JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-requisites

Nil.

UNIT - I

Action Potential and Transducers: Electrical activity in cells, tissues, muscles and nervous systems -transducers-types and characteristics Physiological transducers – pressure transducers-transducers for body temperature measurement – Pulse sensors-respiratory sensors.

UNIT - II

Biosignal Acquisition: Physiological signal amplifiers-isolation amplifiers-medical pre- amplifier design-bridge amplifiers-line driving amplifier-current amplifier – chopper amplifier-biosignal analysis - signal recovery and data acquisition-drift compensation in operational amplifiers-pattern recognition-physiological assist devices.

UNIT - III

Biopotential Recorders: Characteristics of recoding system - electrocardiography (ECG) – electro encephalography (EEG) - electromyography (EMG) - electroretinography (ERG) - electrooculography (EOG) – recorders with high accuracy –recorders for OFF line analysis.

UNIT - IV

Specialized Medical Equipment: Digital thermometer-audio meter –X-ray machines- radiography and fluoroscopy - angiography – elements of bio-telemetry system-design of bio- telemetry system-radio telemetry system-pace makers-Heart lung machine-Dialysis machine.

UNIT - V

Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation: Computers in medicine - lasers in medicine – basic principles of endoscopes- nuclear imaging techniques - computer tomography (CT) Scanning –Ultrasonic imaging system-construction propagation and delay – magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements-L. Cromwell, F.J. Weibel land E. A. Pfeiffer.
• 2. Biomedical Instrumentation- M. Arumugam - Anuradha Publications.
• 3. Handbook of Biomedical Instruments- R.S. Khandpur. B.TECH. CIVIL ENGINEERING