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49215 Medical Electronics
Danish title: Medicinsk elektronik

Type: Å, Language: DDD
Credit points: 5 point
Previous course: C4222
Offered by: Department of Information Technology (IT)
No credit points with: C4222
Prerequisite: C4205/49101/49108.C8141/72205/72105.C1201/C1202/10100
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Scope and form: Lectures, and about 3 visits at hospital departments and industrial companies.
Examination: Written exam without aid (13 point scale )
Remarks: The course is part of the profile "Computer Systems" and is an entry course for a number of future courses on Biomedical Engineering.
Contact person: Ole Trier Andersen, IT, Building 344, Tel. +45 4525 3901
Jørgen Arendt Jensen, IT, Building 344, Tel. +45 4525 3924
Aim: To give an overview of clinical physiological methods of measurement and to present the most common technical equipment that is used for diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, with emphasis on transducers and electronic sytems.
Contents: Blood pressure and flow measurements. Heart diseases, ecg and other examination techniques, intensive care and treatment. Measuring and signal processing equipment for nuclear medical, biochemical, urological and neurophysiological examinations, including electrodes, eeg and evoked response techniques. CT, SPECT, PET and MR-scanning. Medical applications of ultrasound. Noise, safety, and other environmentally derived problems and requirements.