Biomedical Device Sensors and Interfacing

Catalog description

Students will be introduced to the basic design and interface of sensor systems that are commonly used in biomedical apparatus. We will discuss computer architecture; various analog electrical (voltage and current) interfaces; transducer and electro-mechanical interfacing (photodiodes, photomultipliers, radiation detectors, thermocouples, thermistors, pressure sensors, strain sensors, motors and solenoids); microprocessor design and use; basic analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog techniques: and elementary signal processing techniques, all as applied to biomedical equipment.