Course detail

Medical Diagnostic Technology

FEKT-ALDTAcad. year: 2010/2011

Operating principles and construction of diagnostic devices and systems for recording of electric signals and non-electric characteristics from organism (EKG,EEG,EMG, EGG, impedance measurements, recording of blood pressure, measurement of blood flow, diagnostics of sight and hearing). Diagnostic devices based on light radiation. The principles of the design of medical systems

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Radim Kolář, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Biomedical Engineering (UBMI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

A fundamental knowledge of operation of essential medical diagnostic devices.

Prerequisites

Knowledge at secondary school level and of completed subjects in the study area

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

The principles and design of medical diagnostic devices for scanning of electric signals from the body surface.
The principles and design of medical diagnostic devices for scanning of basic non-electric signals.
Diagnostic systems using light radiation for acquisition.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To provide a fundamental knowledge of the design and operation of diagnostic devices used in medicine and in medical laboratories.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Laboratory exercises, test

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Navrátil,L., Rosina,J.: Medicínská biofyzika, Grada, 2005 (CS)
Chmelař M.: Lékařská přístrojová technika 1, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 1995 (CS)
Chmelař M.: Lékařská laboratorní technika, skriptum VUT 2000 (CS)
Rozman,J a kol.: Elektronické přístroje v lékařství, Academia, 2006 (CS)
Kolář, R: Lékařská diagnostická technika, elektronická skripta VUT, 2007 (CS)

Recommended reading

Bronzino, J.D. The Biomedical engineering Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton 1995 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BTBIO-A Bachelor's

    branch A-BTB , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme EEKR-CZV lifelong learning

    branch ET-CZV , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Radim Kolář, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Recording electrodes, polarisation of electrodes, types of electrodes
2. Amplifiers for biological signals, requirements and solutionhs.
3. Electrocardiography, EKG characteristics, the principle of operation and parameters of the device,
used recording systems, analysis and evaluation of EKG, automated electrocardiographs with
diagnostic characteristics.
4. Electroencelophalography, EEG characteristics, the principle and parameters of the apparatus,
methods of recording and evaluating brain signals, supplementary devices (photostimulator,
phonostimulator)
5. Other biological electric signals - electromyograph, electroretinogram, electrooculogram
7. Blood pressure measurement, invasive and non-invasive measurement, the principles of employed
methods
8. Devices for measurement of breathing, ‚apnea alarm‘, breath volumes
9. Devices for blood flow measurement
10. The principles of monitoring techniques, operation of monitors and their connection to hospital
information system
11. Diagnostics of hearing: subjective and objective audiometry. Diagnostics of sight – the viewing
field, intraocular pressure, EOG, ERG, ultrasonic biometry of the eye
12. Imaging devices utilising the visible parts of the spectrum for diagnosing eye disorders
13. The principles of the basic laboratory apparatus operating on the principle of spectrophotometry

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Vratislav Harabiš, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Block diagram of the electrocardiograph, characteristics of individual blocks
2. Introduction to LabView, demonstration of applications, applications in medical diagnostics
3. Basic mathematical operations in LabView and creating of the first application
4. LabView - work with files, the EKG signal, noise simulation
5. LabView –biological signal filtering, spectral analysis
6. LabView - exploitation of external inputs and outputs in biological signal processing.
7. LabView - R wave detection in EKG signal I, individual work
8. LabView - R wave detection in EKG signal II, individual work
9. LabView - R wave detection in EKG signal III, individual work
10. Audiometry
11.The basic principle and measurement of blood flow rate by means of the ultrasonic Doppler
apparatus
12. Ultrasonic imaging systems - measurement, parameters of the apparatus, diagnostic applications,
imaging methods, Doppler measurement
13. Test