Hospital and Medical Instrumentation

Year
1

Academic year
2017-2018

Code
02003111

Subject Area
Biomedical Engineering

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Other Languages of Instruction
English

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
6.0

Type
Elective

Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Mentoring to define the medical instrumentation control problem, addressing relevant research directions.
Instrumentation projects in the framework of the activities of the Department of Physics of the University of Coimbra research centers or the IBILI-Faculty of Medicine.
Sessions dedicated to analysis of recent scientific papers, being required that the PhD student presents, critically, his opinion on the topics discussed.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student should be able to design and implement medical instrumentation for the area/medical specialty correponding to the syllabus module that he has chosen.

Work Placement(s)

Syllabus

The student has to choose one of the listed modules

Module 1 - Biopotentials measurement instrumentation
Module 2 - Instrumentation for measuring blood pressure and hemodynamics
Module 3 - Ophthalmology Instrumentation
Module 4 - Instrumentation for measurements of the respiratory system
Module 5 - Instrumentation for blood-gas and blood-biochemistry
Module 6 - Therapeutic and prosthetics devices.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Manuel Rendeiro Cardoso

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design, John G. Webster, Ed.; John Wiley and Sons, 4th Edition, 2010
Biomedical Photonics Handbook, Tuan Vo-Dinh, CRC, 2003
artigos de revistas científicas/scientific journals papers