EE 416  -  Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering

                      2007-2008 Academic Year -  Spring Semester

Instructor                : Murat Eyüboglu
Office                : DZ-09
Teaching Assistant   : Evren Değirmenci / Office: DZ-08
                                   Balkar Erdoğan / Office: DZ-02

Credit Hours         : (3-0) 3

Course Description: Introduction to cell physiology: the neuron, synapses and the neural models.  Sources of bioelectric potentials and theory of ECG, EEG, ENG and EMG.  Electrodes for bioelectric potentials and related instrumentation.  Physiology, mechanical models and measurement of the neural, circulatory, and respiratory systems.

Course Objectives: Main objective of this course is to introduce basic physiology of the human body from an electrical engineering and mathematical modeling point of view.  Measurement issues, related instrumentation and devices are discussed as appropriate.

-         Textbooks: Robert Plonsey and Roger Barr, ``Bioelectricity - a quantitative approach,`` Plenum
Press, NewYork.
-         John G. Webster (Ed.), ``Medical Instrumentation, application and design,`` Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston.
Reference books:
-     Murat Eyüboğlu, Lecture Notes.
-         B.H. Brown, R.H. Smallwood, D.C. Barber et al, ``Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,`` Institute of Physics, ISBN 0-7503-0368-9.
-         J.D. Enderle, S.M. Blanchard, J.D. Bronzino, ``Introduction to Biomedical Engineering,`` Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-238660.
-         Vander, Sherman, Luciano, ``Human Physiology,`` Mc.Graw Hill.
-         R. Plonsey and D. Fleming, ``Bioelectric Phenomena,`` Mc.Graw Hill.
-         J. Malmivuo and R. Plonsey, ``Bioelectromagnetism,`` Oxford University Press.
-     Ferit Pehlivan, ``Biyofizik``, Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Ankara.
-         Albert M. Cook and John G. Webster (Eds.), ``Therapeutic Medical Devices –
Application and design, `` Printice Hall, New Jersey.
-         Ramon Pallas-Areny and John G. Webster, ``Sensors and Signal Conditioning, ``
John Wiley and Sons, New York  (Reference book  for the laboratory). <>

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