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sP233 Psychophysiological Concepts
19.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: eight hours
Prerequisite; SP132 Introductory Psychophysiology
Assessment: examination, assignments, tutorials
and laboratory reports
A first-year subject for students majoring in
psychophysiology.
Subject description
Basic monitoring instrumentation, recorders, plotters, displays.
Basic monitoring technology, amplifiers, filters, gain
frequency response.
Nerve and muscle physiology and associated monitoring
techniques.
Heart and cardiovascular physiology with associated
monitoring techniques.
Respiratory system with associated monitoring methods and
instruments.
Biofeedback systems and psychophysiological correlates.
SP320 Instrumental Science 3
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: SP220
Assessment: examination and laboratory reports
A second-year subject of the degree course in computeraided
chemistry.
Subject description
Topics studied will include:
basic analogue electronics using operational amplifiers
and discrete devices;
basic digital circuits - combinational logic, flip flops and
their uses.
~ ~ 3 2 4 Biophysical Systems A
10.0 credit points
No, of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP1224 or equivalent
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
A second-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics.
Subject description
Electrode processes: half cell potentials, charge transfer
overpotential, diffusion overpotential, impedance, micro
electrodes, recording arrangements.
~ ~ 3 2 5 Biophysical Systems B
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP1224
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
A second-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics.
Subject description
Muscle: ultrastructure, excitation-contraction coupling, sliding
filament theory length tension relationships, Hill equation,
metabolic aspects, E-C coupling in smooth muscle,
pathophysiology of muscle, electromyography.
The heart: cardiac cycle, mechanical and electrical events,
Starling's law and Noble's model, mechanical properties of
cardiac muscle.
Pulsatile pressure and flow in arteries, wave propagation in
arteries, blood rheology, atherosclerosis, Starling's hypothesis
of the capillary system, mass transport, flow in collapsible
tubes, blood flow in particular organs, Guyton's model.
Control of blood flow in the brain.
SP331 Neurohumoral Bases of
Rychophysiology
23.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: eight hours
Prerequisite: SP232
Assessment: examination and assignments
A second-year subject for students completing the
psychophysiology major.
Subject description
Functional neuroanatomy: comparative and human anatomy
of the brain. Functional aspects of structure.
Neurophysiological recording techniques: basic
instrumentation. EEG recordinq, electrode technology.
Hormonal and pharmacologicai bases of normal body
function including biorhythms.
Olfactory and taste physiology.
Somatosensory physiology and recording techniques.
5.~333 Industry Based Learning
50.0 credit points
A six-month period of work experience occurring as part of
the third year of the course leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Biophysics and
Instrumentation). Students are supervised by a member of
the academic staff, and are required to submit a report to
their employer and to their supervisor.
SP401 Experimental Techniques
4.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: assignments and examinations.
A second-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics and instrumentation.
Subject description
Earthing and shielding: reduction of noise and interference.
Electrical safety: Australian Standards for biomedical circuits.
Treatment of biophysical data: biological statistics and data
oresentation. use of oersonal comouters in biomedical
practice, util/ty packages physiolog'ical data acquisition and
signal processing packages. Applications of mathematical
models of physiological systems to experimental work,
numerical methods in biophyjics.
Nuclear studies: radiation safety, dosimetry, radiopharmaceuticals
in clinical practice.
SP420 Instrumental Science 4
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: SP320
Assessment: examination and laboratory reports
A second-year subject of the degree course in computeraided
chemistry.
Subject description
Topics studied will include:
digital to analogue and analogue to digital converters;
the organisation of a computer, especially inputloutput;
hardware and software aspects of parallel interfacing;
hardware and software aspects of serial interfacing;
hardware and software aspects of analogue interfacing.