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| 580.471 Biomedical Instrumentation I: Signals & Systems |
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Course Overview |
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| This core design course will cover fundamentals of biomedical sensors and instrumentation, FDA regulations, designing with electronics, biopotentials and ECG amplifier design, recording from heart, muscle, brain, etc., diagnostic and therapeutic devices (including pacemakers and defibrillators), applications in prosthetics and rehabilitation, and safety. The course includes extensive laboratory work involving circuits, electronics, sensor design and interface, and building complete biomedical instrumentation. The students will also carry out design challenge projects, individually or in teams (examples include "smart cane for blind", "computer interface for quadriplegic", etc.) |
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Course Administration |
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Dr. Nitish Thakor |
nitish@jhu.edu |
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Teaching
Assistants |
Nasir Bhanpuri
Natan Davidovics
Bejan Darbandi
Mehdi Abdur Rahman |
nbhanpuri@jhu.edu
natan1d@gmail.com
bejand@gmail.com
mrahman9@jhu.edu
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| Timings |
Lecture Timings:
Lab Timings:
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4:00pm - 6:00pm on Thursdays
9:00am - 12:00pm on Fridays (Section 1)
1:00pm - 4:00pm on Fridays (Section 2)
Thursday 6:00pm onwards in Hodson Hall |
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Lectures:
Labs: |
Hodson Hall
Clark Hall 221 (Instrumentation Lab) |
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| Grading |
Labs
Challenge Project
Tests
eHT, i4GH Term Paper |
25%
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40%
10% |
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Lecture Notes |
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Labs |
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Assignments |
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Timely assignments will be given out in the lectures. Assignments typically include design problems based on what is taught in class.
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Challenge Project |
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This is an extension of the labs, when students in teams of two or three, will take on a more involved and challenging project and compete against other teams in a challenge project competition. Previous challenge projects have included "who types a message the fastest using a self designed quadriplegic keyboard" or "who best navigates through an obstruction maze using a self designed blind man's SMART cane". The TAs along with Dr. Thakor will decide the challenge project for this year and inform the students well in time. This typically requires about four Fridays of lab-time and burning some midnight oil to get things to work before the deadlines. The toil and eventual achievement is usually enjoyed by the students.
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Challenge Project 2008
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Textbook/Reading |
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| John G. Webster, Medical Instrumentation, 3rd Ed, John Wiley & Sons, 1998 |
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Copyright © 2008 JHU Neuroengineering & Biomedical Instrumentation Lab
All rights reserved. |
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