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SP424 Clinical Monitoring A
8.0 credit points
No. of houn per week: four hours
Prerequisite:. SP324 or SP325
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
A second-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics and instrumentation.
Subject description
Cardiac monitoring and pathologies.
The ECG: genesis of myocardial field, lead systems,
vectorcardiography, ECG changes in disease; effects of heart
position, arrhythmias and conduction defects, pacemakers
and defibrillators.
Monitoring pressure and flow: Swan-Ganz catheters,
ultrasonic and electromagnetic flowmeters, non-invasive
techniques, cardiac output by dye and thermal dilution,
.2 electrical impedance method, phono- and echo-cardiography.
4 Neurophysiological monitoring: on-going brain electrical
activity, visual, auditory and somatosensory evoked
responses; the ERG, EOG.
Intensive care instrumentation: design philosophies, data processing
and management; ambulatory monitoring and
telemetry. Cardiopulmonary bypass, requirements and design.
5~425 Clinical Monitoring B
8.0 credit points
No, of hours per week: four houn
Prerequisite: SP324 or SP325
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
A second-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics and instrumentation.
Subject description
Respiratory system: structure and function, lung volumes and
dead space, diffusion, blood flow; ventilationlperfusion ratio
inequality; gas transport. Bohr and Haldane effects,
acidlbase status, respiratory mechanics, control of respiration.
Lung function testing and lung diseases, obstruction,
restriction: flowlvolume curves, diffusion capacity,
compliance, body plethysmography, response to exercise,
small airway assessment, ventilationlperfusion ratio.
Renal vasculature: the juxtaglomerular apparatus, kidney
function tests, countercurrent multiplication, control of
kidney function, renal pathophysiology, the artifical kidney.
Monitoring the birth process: maternal, foetal and neo-natal
monitoring; uterine activity, foetal heart rate, Apgar scoring;
neo-natal circulatory and respiratory changes.
Anaesthesia: agents and their administration; monitoring;
physiological effects of anaesthesia, mathematical modelling.
~ ~ 1 4 3 Psychophysiology of Perception
17.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: eight hours
Prerequisites: SP232, SP331
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, laboratory work
and project consultation
Assessment: examination and assignments
A second-year subject for students majoring in
psychophysiology.
Subject aims
To provide a knowledge of the physiology of peripheral and
central mechanisms of perception.
To provide a knowledge of psychophysics and measurement.
Subject dexription
Vision: the eye, peripheral mechanisms, central pathways and
processing.
Auditory and vestibular: the ear, mechanisms of sound and
vibration transduction, signalling balance, central pathways
and processing.
Somatosensory: reception mechanisms, peripheral and
central pathways, pain control.
Motor responses: central and peripheral control of
movement; integration of sensation with motor response; RT,
MT, practical aspects related to skill learning, ergonomics,
and psychophysics.
Textbook
Rhoades, R. and Pflanzer, R. Human Physiology 2nd ed, Fort Worth:
Saunders, 1992
References
Kolb, 0. and Whishaw, I.Q. Fundamentals of Human Neumpsychology.
3rd ed, New York: Freeman, 1990
Mhea as advised by lecturers
SP501 Signals and Systems
8.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: examination
A fourth-year subject of the degree course for students
majoring in instrumentation.
Subject description
Signals in time and frequency domains: measurement and
interpretation of spectra, applications of Fourier analysis.
Linear systems: time invariance, impulse response, system
function, causality, system testing, phase and amplitude
responses and time delays, filters.
Digital processing: signal sampling and reconstruction, digital
spectral analysis, OFT and FFT, digital filters, linear prediction
and bandwidth compression.
Noise: averages, signal estimation and detection.
Image processing: Fourier optics. holography and
tomography.
Information theory and codes.
SPS09 Physics 5
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two houn
Assessment: practical work and examination
A fourth-year subject of the degree course in medical
biophysics and instrumentation.
Subject description
Solid state physics: tunnel diodes, PN photodiodes, PIN
photodiodes, PN diodes to detect protons and alpha
particles, PN diodes to detect gamma radiation,
superconductivity, superconducting quantum interference
devices.
SP510 Scientific Instrumentation A
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four houn
Prerequisite: SP3410
Assessment: examination assignments and
laboratory reports
A fourth-year subject of the degree courses for students
majoring in instrumentation.
Subject description
Lectures on a series of topical aspects of scientific
instrumentation.