| This course deals with the problems and solutions encountered when applying biomedical instrumentation techniques to human subjects. The emphasis throughout the course is on the use of service electrodes however many concepts apply to other areas of instrumentation. The material is divided into six modules: the origins of biopotentials, biopotential electrodes, differential amplifier design, coupling with the environment, isolation design techniques, and low-noise instrumentation. Throughout the course the conflict between desigining for best electrical performance and ensuring patient safety is highlighted. It is expected that prospective students have a working understanding basic electrical engineering program that includes electronics. There are several scheduled labratory excersises for this course. These cover aspects of electrode modeling, differential amplifiers, common-mode interference, fly-back modulation and noise-analysis. Most of these labratories will be conducted using the pSpice circuit simulation package and will form a mandatory part of this course. Consequently. previous exposure to this popular simulation software would be beneficial. This course is given through Blackboard course delivery system and there are no scheudled face to face lectures. For those students who on the UNB campus, some additiona labratory excersises or demonstrations may be given to illustrate some of the points contained in the lecture material. These will be conducted in the Electrophysiology Labratory at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME). |
