MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

2012-2013 Academic Year – Spring Semester

 

EE 515 – BIOELECTRICITY AND BIOMAGNETISM

Credit Hours: (3-0) 3

Class Schedule: Tuesday 13:40-16:30 (D - 134)

 

 

 

Instructor: Yeşim Serinağaoğlu Doğrusöz
Office: DZ-03

E-mail: yserin@metu.edu.tr

Catalogue Description: Vector analysis, electrical sources and fields, introduction to membrane biophysics, action potentials, volume conductor fields, electrophysiology of the heart, electrocardiography (ECG), electric and magnetic lead fields, electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG).

 

Course Objectives: The main objective of this course is to provide an overview of the general principles of electric and magnetic fields in biological environments and application of these principles to obtain information from the human body. 

 

Reference Books:

 

  1. R. M. Gulrajani, Bioelectricity and Biomagnetism, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.
  2. R. Plonsey, R. C. Barr, Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2nd ed., 2000 (3rd edition is available from Springer Publishing Co, 2007).
  3. R. Plonsey, Bioelectric Phenomena, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1969.
  4. J. Malmivuo, R. Plonsey, Bioelectromagnetism, Oxford University Press, 1995. Available on-line at: http://www.bem.fi/book/
  5. Edited by S. J. Williamson, G. L. Romani, L. Kaufman, I. Modena, Biomagnetism: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Plenum Press, New York, 1983.
  6. P. Nunez, R. D. Katznelson, Electric Fields of the Brain, Oxford University Press, 1981.
  7. A. J. Pullan, M. L. Buist, L. K. Cheng, Mathematically Modelling the Electrical Activity of the Heart, World Scientific, 2005.

 

Useful Links:

 

·      European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering, EVICAB

·      Video lectures by J. Malmivuo are available at: http://www.evicab.eu/bme/06malmi/video/index.htm

 

Course Outline:

 

·         Introduction

·         Nerve Cells

·         Subthreshold Membrane Phenomena

·         Active behavior of the membrane

·         Extracellular potentials

·         Electrocardiography (ECG)

·         Electroencephalography (EEG)

·         Biomagnetism

·         Stimulation

·         Measurement of intrinsic properties

 

Important Notes:

 

·         A more detailed course syllabus (including information about grading) is available on METU-ONLINE. Please download the syllabus, and keep it for future reference.

 

·         We will be using METU-ONLINE for keeping in contact (I will upload announcements, lecture notes, homework assignments, projects, and send e-mails to the students, etc.), so please make sure that you have access to EE 515 pages at METU-ONLINE, and that you receive e-mails at the address listed on that page.

 

·         It is important that you do all your homework and projects by yourselves; please do not copy all or part of someone else’s work in your reports.