Measures and Devices in Medicine

Recommended Prerequisites

A. Knowledge

It is important that the student has basic knowledge about physical quantities and systems of units.

B. Language Skills

Portuguese language

Teaching Methods

This curricular unit has a matrix that includes theoretical classes using the expository method and seminars. The theoretical component intends to provide the student with the basic knowledge of the discipline, while the seminars intend to promote the consolidation and application of the knowledge acquired in the theoretical classes, and to encourage interaction so that the student can understand its application in the development/use of medical devices.

Learning Outcomes

Goals

• To know the physical quantities used in the context of medicine

• To identify the different systems of units

• To perform conversions of units of different dimensions

• To explain the structure and functioning of different medical devices

Skills

• To reinforce knowledge about the different physical quantities used in medicine

• To mobilize scientific knowledge in the use of different medical devices

• To interpret data from medical devices

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the states of matter

2. The electromagnetic spectrum of radiation: properties and applications

3. Introduction to the study of physical quantities and their units: mass, temperature, pressure, flow, volume, voltage, power, wavelength, density, dose

4. Medical devices

    4.1 - Basic concepts of biomedical measurement

    4.2 - Quality in medical devices

    4.3 - Applications in Medicine (blood pressure meters, thermometers, defibrillators, etc.)

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Filomena Rabaça Roque Botelho

Assessment Methods

Assessment method
Report of a seminar or field trip: 40.0%
Oral presentation under a committee : 60.0%

Bibliography

- Biofísica Médica. JJ Pedroso de Lima. Universidade de Coimbra, 2014

- Éléments de Biophysique, Tomo I. Grémy F et Leterrier F. Flammarion Médecine-Sciences, 3ª tirage, 1988.

- Éléments de Biophysique, Tomo II. Rémy F et Perrin J. Flammarion Médecine-Sciences, 2ª edition, 1977.

- Russell K. Hobbie, Brad Roth. Springer, 2007,  "Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering)".