Middle East Technical University

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department

2011-2012 Academic Year – Fall Semester

EE 517

Therapeutic and Prosthetic Devices in Biomedical Engineering

Instructor: Yeşim Serinağaoğlu Doğrusöz
Office: DZ-03

E-mail: yserin@metu.edu.tr

Credit Hours: (3-0) 3

Catalogue Description: Cardiovascular instrumentation, prosthesis and assist devices. Neuromuscular prosthetics and orthotics. Respiratory therapy equipment and instrumentation. Anesthesia delivery apparatus and applications. Sensory communication aids. Internal prosthetic and orthotics. Electrosurgery and related equipment. Instrumenation related to metabolic systems. Medical imaging systems. Radiation therapy.

Course objectives: This course will provide to students brief review of physiology and common pathology from an engineering point of view for understanding of therapeutic medical devices. The lectures will focus on function of therapeutic medical devices so that the students will gain the ability to contribute in their design, development and effective usage in their future careers.

Pre-requisite knowledge and/or skills: This course requires basic chemistry and physics, physiology, differential equations, control systems, bioinstrumentation knowledge.

Textbook(s) and Reference Books:

1. A.M. Cook and J.G. Webster (Ed.): Therapeutic Medical Devices – Application and Design, 1982, Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey.
2. B.H. Brown, R.H. Smallwood, D.C. Barber, P.V. Lawford, D.R. Hose: Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, 1999, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol.
3. J.J. Carr, J.M. Brown: Introduction to Biomedical Equipment Technology, 1998, Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey.
4. J.G. Webster (Ed.): Design of Cardiac Pacemakers, 1995, IEEE Press, New Jersey.

Grading System:

In term projects, exams and presentations 60%

Final exam 40%

Tentative Course Syllabus

• Introduction – general concepts
• Cardiac pacing
• Defibrillators
• Cardiovascular prostheses and assist devices: cardiac valves, angioplasty, arterial stents
• Neural assist devices
• Sensory and communication aids
• Aids for the blind
• Neuromuscular prosthetics and orthotics
• Internal prosthetic and orthotics
• Anesthesia delivery apparatus and applications: anesthesia machine & ventilator
• Respiratory therapy equipment and instrumentation
• Electro-surgery and related equipment
• Instrumentation related to metabolic systems
• Radiation therapy
• Artificial kidney and pancreas
• Gastrointestinal therapy
• Photodynamic therapy
• Radiotherapy linear accelerator
• Intelligent drug delivery

Presentation Guidelines

You will be expected to give a 2-3 hour presentation on your selected topic.

• Pick your topic,
• Pick one from the course outline
• Suggest a topic related to the course objectives, but not listed in the course outline
• Search the literature, find papers and books.
• Brief talk about the physiology of the biological system (for example, if you picked cardiac pacemakers and/or defibrillators, you need to first talk about the electrical conduction system of the heart, arrythmias, their causes, etc.)
• Description of the device, its components, basic principles, etc.
• Brief history of the development of the device (to give the audience a feel of how the device has changed over time)
• Current state of the art

NOTE: These are just recommended outline for your talk, you can extend this list as you see fit

• Make an appointment with the instructor to discuss your preparations, and design an outline for your presentation
• Finalize your outline and course material
• Before the presentation (At least 2 days before):
• Send your outline (by email) to the instructor.
• Write and submit a “Technical Report” of your presentation topic (should be in Word or Latex format).
• Your presentation:
• Could be a Power Point presentation,
• You can use the board,
• You can prepare demos, experiments, etc (no more than an hour)
• Some or all of the above.
• At the end of the presentation: STATE 3 - 4 TAKE-HOME MESSAGES FROM YOUR PRESENTATION