Kursplan för

Biomedical Measurements
Medicinsk mätteknik

EEMF05F, 7.5 högskolepoäng

Gäller från och med: Autumn 2024
Beslutad av: Professor Thomas Johansson
Datum för fastställande: 2018-11-15

Allmänna uppgifter

Avdelning: Biomedical Engineering
Kurstyp: Gemensam kurs, avancerad nivå och forskarnivå
Kursen ges även på avancerad nivå med kurskod: EEMF05
Undervisningsspråk: English, Swedish

Syfte

The object with the course Biomedical Measurements is to give a broad understanding for the problems that are associated with the use of measurement technology in the medical environment. Applications within health and welfare as well as clinical research will be discussed. In combination with the diploma work, it will lay an excellent foundation for further work within the biomedical engineering as well as for scientific research. The course is organized as a sequence of lectures given by selected lecturers, all of top quality within their competence areas

Mål

Kunskap och förståelse

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Färdighet och förmåga

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Värderingsförmåga och förhållningssätt

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Kursinnehåll

The course will give a broad outline over modern biomedical engineering. Examples of lecture captions include measurement of blood pressure, ECG, electromedicine, clinical chemistry, anaesthesiology, modern surgical methods, dialysis, audiology, pacemaker, medical laser, x-ray, digital radiography, computed tomography (CT), radiation methods for in-vivo measurements, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diagnostic ultrasound, dose planning, radiation therapy, telemedicine as well as risk factors and current legislation. The course contains three laboratory experiment sessions and is finalized with a study tour to Lund University Hospital

Kurslitteratur

The lectures and the lecturer’s notes constitute the main body of the course. The literature mentioned above is optional supplementary reading, which elucidates different parts of the course. However, no single one of these books covers the whole course.

Kursens undervisningsformer

Undervisningsformer: Föreläsningar, laborationer, studiebesök

Kursens examination

Examinationsform: Skriftlig tentamen. The student must pass the compulsatory laboratory experiment sessions and the final examination, write and review 1 lecture summary, and attend 1/3 of the lectures.
Betygsskala: Underkänd, godkänd
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Antagningsuppgifter

Förutsatta förkunskaper: ESSF10 /EEM007 Electrical Measurements, EEM031 /BMEF10 Transducer Technology

Övrig information

The course will be given in English on demand

Kurstillfällesinformation

Kontaktinformation och övrigt

Kursansvariga:
Hemsida: http://bme.lth.se/course-pages/medicinsk-maetteknik/medicinsk-maetteknik/


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