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Subject description
The Forth language and the design of time critical turn key
instrument systems. Implementing a program in Forth:
incremental compilation, stack maintenance, multiple
vocabularies, interrupts, multi-tasking, special features of the
language. Optimised target compilation.
~~602 Special Project
4.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: reports
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in medical biophysics
and instrumentation.
Subject description
This project gives students training in carrying out a technical
investigation.
Students work individually, or in small groups, under staff
supervision, on a major investigation project chosen from
some area of Biomedical Instrumentation.
Projects are chosen by students, after consultation with staff.
from a list developed by staff. Projects are usually associated
with departmental research interests, or are proposed by cooperative
employers. but can be suggested by students. They
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departmental resources.
Each project requires a literature surwy. and a theoretical
investigation. Results, conclusions and recommendations are
presented in a written report, and an oral report may also
be required.
Special lectures are given on the subjects of entrepreneurial
skills and technology transfer.
sp609 Physics 6
7.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: practical work and examination
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in medical biophysics
and instrumentation.
Subject description
Selected topics of special interest to students of biophysics
and instrumental science. A selection will be made from the
following areas:
Spectroscopy; NMR, Mossbauer.
Applications of superconductivity: Josephson junctions,
particle accelerators.
Nuclear power: developments in fission and fusion reactors,
magnetic and inertial confinement.
Tomography: X-ray, NMR, positron emission.
Fibre optics: sensors, communication.
Electromagnetic interference and shielding.
Non linear dynamical systems.
SP~IO Instrumentation Systems A
8.0 credit points
No, of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP510
Assessment: examination and laboratory reports
Subject description
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in scientific
instrumentation. A major instrumentation project.
SP623 Industry Based Learning
50.0 credit points
A six-month period of industry based learning occurring as
part of the third year of the course leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing 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. This program is
normally taken end-on from SP523.
SP624 Biophysics (Neurosciences B)
8.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP524
Instruction: lectures, tutorials and laboratory
classes
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics.
Subject aims
To provide knowledge of basic and advanced EEG recording
techniques.
To provide knowledge of sensory physiology of the visual
and auditory systems.
Subject description
The auditory system and the vestibular apparatus: acoustics
of the outer ear, sound transmission within the ear.
peripheral organisation of receptors and CNS pathways.
peripheral mechanisms and neural organisation of vestibular
mechanisms, pathophysiology of auditory vestibular function,
auditory and vestibular testing techniques, evoked potentials,
cortex, brain stem, ENG, auditory prostheses.
Vision: anatomy of the eye, optics of visual system, receptor
function central pathways, central processing, electrical
recording of ERG, EOG, visual evoked response, intraocular
pressure, recording, examination, pathology, assessment,
adaptation, acuity, perimetry, spatial frequency.
EEG: origin, recording, interpretation, analysis.
Neurophysiological signal processing: basic concepts and
methodology.
Textbook
Rhoades, R. and Pflanzer, R. Human Physiology. 2nd ed, Fort Worth:
Saunders, 1992,
References
Gwins, A.S. and Remond, A. (eds) Methods of Analysis of Brain
Electrical and Magnetic Signals (Handbook of Electroencephalography
and Clinical Neurophysiology revised series, bblurne I). Amsterdam;
Elwier, 1987
Picton, T.W. (ed.) Human Event-Related htentials (Handbook of
Electmencephalography and Clinical Neurophysrbloggy. revised series,
Wlume 3). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988
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SP625 Applied Biophysics B
8.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP501
Assessment: examination, assignment and
laboratory reports
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics.
Subject description
Medical imaging: ultrasound, nuclear methods, X-ray, CT
scan, NMR (MRI), PET. Biological effects of radiation. Physical
principles, image reconstruction, image quality. Microwave
imaging.