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~~530 Scientific Instrumentation B
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP430
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in
instrumentation.
Subject description
Artificial neural networks: an introduction to artificial
neurones. Linear separability and the need for a non-linear
transform in the neurone. The basic architectures of
networks of artificial neurones, feed forward, feed back and
cascade. The perception, Adeline and Madeline. The credit
assignment problem. The back progoagation algorithm.
Scaling input data. Common training problems. Limits of
back propoagation networks.
Nuclear instrumentation: semiconductor detectors, computer
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4 based spectrometry, activation analysis and coincidence
p counting.
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5. ~~5.31 Biophysical Systems and Techniques
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12.5 credit points
$ No. of hours per week: four hours
3 Assessment: continuous, by tests and
2 assignments
An advanced subject of the biomedical instrumentation
option of the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science and of
the Masters course in Biomedical Instrumentation.
Subject description
Membrane biophysics: tracer dynamics. Applications of irreversible
thermodynamics. Active and passive transport
mechanisms. Membrane-based biosensors.
Biophysical techniques. Electron microscopy. Electron and
proton microbeam analysis. Diffraction studies of biological
materials. Autoradiography. Optical methods. NMR and ESR
studies.
Physiological control mechanisms, mathematical models of
physiological systems.
~~532 Clinical Monitoring Techniques
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: continuous, by tests and
assignments
An advanced subject of the biomedical instrumentation
option of the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science and of
the Masters course in Biomedical Instrumentation.
Subject description
Physical and physiological principles in the use and development
of clinical monitoring systems including biological
sensors and the processing, display and storage of data.
Main emphasis is placed on cardiovascular and respiratory
monitoring, but novel techniques in other areas of
biomedical monitoring will be covered.
5~534 Neurophysiological Techniques
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Instruction: lectures, laboratory exercises and
tutorials
Assessment: assignments
An advanced subject of the biomedical instrumentation
option of the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science and of
the Masters course in Biomedical Instrumentation.
Subject aims
To present a current overview of the techniques applicable to
the recording and analysis of neurophysiological signals -
especially those of electric or magnetic origin.
Subject description
Information processing within neural systems, Analysis of
neural mass field potentials. Clinical, cortical, subcortical, and
scalp, surface recording techniques of the EEG. Spontaneous
activity analysis. Neuro-psychological correlates. Evoked
potentials. Time and frequency domain analysis. Stimulus
classification.
References
Gevins, A.S. and Remond, A. (eds) Methods of Analysis of Brain
Electrical and Magnetic Signals (Handbook of Electroencephalography
and Clinical Neurophysidogy wised series, blume 1). Amsterdam:
Elsevier, 1987
Picton. T.W. (ed) Human Event-Related Fbtentials (Handbook of
Electroencephalography and Clinical Neumphysiology, revised series
blume 3). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988
Others as advised by lecturers
~~535 Biomedical Project
12.5 credit points
No, of hours per week: four hours
A compulsory subject of the biomedical instrumentation
option of the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science.
Subject description
Tutorials in analogue and digital electronic application
techniques.
The development, construction and commissioning of a
biomedical instrumentation system.
sP537 Medical imaging
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: assignments and tests
An advanced subject of the biomedical instrumentation
option of the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science and of
the Masters course in Biomedical Instrumentation.
Subject description
Interrogation methods: beamed radiation (visible, IR. Microwave,
X-ray, Ultrasound), internally deposited radiation
(gamma rays, SPECT, PETT), selective excitation (NMR).
Physical qualifies of tissue measured by the interrogation.
lmage construction methods: real-time ultrasound, interactive
and filtered back-projection methods in tomography,
algorithms and software implementation.
Image enhancement methods: colour coding, edge
detection, noise reduction, digital subtraction, entropy
methods.
Interpretation of images: image quality and contrast, system
MTFs, ROC curves, information theory.
~~541 Signal Processing
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: assignments
An advanced subject of the biomedical instrumentation
option of the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science and of
the Masters course in Biomedical Instrumentation.
Subject description
(1) Linear and non-linear systems, response functions.
(2) Signals, spectra, mean square estimation, orthogonality,
probability, stationary and non-stationary stochastic
processes.