Mandatory: - Introduction to the design of biomedical instrumentation - Electronic technology in biomedicine - Measuring Instrumentation - Systems and Signals - Control Engineering Recomended - Physics I, II and III - Differential Equations - Robotics

This is a project-based course in which the student will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the design of medical, surgical and interventional instrumentation. The students will have to apply their previous knowledge (electronics, signal processing, physiology, fluid mechanics, biochemistry, etc.) to design and build and validate functional medical devices that will be introduced during the course. The lectures and seminars will serve to guide the construction of the instrumenst, and this will be done by means of different examples introduced in the guided practices.

The program will cover descriptions, analysis and study cases related to medical devices, instruments and signal processing for application like the ECG and the EEG, light sensors for biomedical instrumentation, advanced electronics for laboratory instrumentation, diagnose and therapy, prosthesis, image-assisted treatment and therapy monitoring in real time, mathematical and computational models to aid diagnosis and to assist surgical devices with real time control and expert systems for image guided interventions among other. This is the specific syllabus implementation: 1. Introduction 2. Applications in Cardiology ----- a. ECG basic electronics ----- b. ECG signal processing fundamentals ----- c. ECG monitor design 3. Radiation Detectors and semiconductor light detectors ----- a. Semiconductor light detectors ----- b. Radiation detectors ----- c. Radiation Detectors Signal Procesing ----- d. Pulseoximetry 4. Image Guided Interventions ----- a. Image Guided Interventions and tracking systems ----- b. Patient to image registration ----- c. Point-based Rigid registration 5. Therapeutic devices: Radiotherapy ----- a. Intro to External Radiotherapy ----- b. Radiotherapy ----- c. Linear Accelerator 6. Surgical Robots ----- a. Computer- and robot-assisted medical interventions ----- b. Review of surgical robots for spinal interventions 7. Monitoring and respirators 8. Application in Neurology ----- a. EEG ----- b. EEG analysis ----- c. Myoelectric prosthesis 9. Hearing ais and cochlear implants ----- a. Hearing aids ----- b. Cochlear implants ----- c. Audio Processing ----- d. Speech Processing 10. Final system design 11. Laboratory Practices ----- a. Serial Port ----- b. Biological Signal Acquisition ----- c. User Interface Design ----- d. Pulseoximetry ----- e. Image Guided Interventions ----- f. EEG ----- g. EMG

This is a project-based course in which the student has to deal with medical devices that will be tested and evaluated. To support the project design, the teaching methodology will be mainly based on lectures that will introduce the fundamental concepts, seminars where the device design will be analysed, and practical sessions in the laboratory. Students are required to read assigned documentation before lectures and seminars. Lectures will be used by the teachers to stress and clarify some difficult or interesting points from the corresponding lesson. Seminars will be mainly dedicated to interactive discussion with the students and short-exams will be passed during these sessions. Tutorship regime will be announced in Aula Global.