Medical Electrical and Electronic Technologies

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• The application and operation of medical imaging systems, monitoring and in vivo sensing systems, drug delivery
• Health related hazards of electrical and electronic devices, nature and approaches taken for hazard management

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Physiological measurement
• Human anatomy and physiology (appropriate to an engineer)
• Physical/electrical properties of human tissues and organs including their biological function
• Electrical and electronic methods for biomolecular and cellular based analytical and diagnostic applications

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Regulation, standardisation of medical technologies and requirements for bringing new technologies to market.

Anatomy

• Anatomical terminology
• Structural level of the human body
• Muscular, skeletal, nervous, cardio-vascular, respiratory systems

Physiological instrumentation

• Measurement systems
• Biopotentials (to include ECG, EMG, EEG and neurostimulation methods)
• Cardiovascular instrumentation (to include pacemakers, pressure, dissolved gas measurement)
• Biosensing approaches related to remote and intelligent sensing (including evolving technologies i.e.

drug delivery, diabetic monitoring, epilepsy and pain management)

• Neurological processes, measurement and stimulation
• Brain function and memory

Imaging technology

• X-Ray, gamma camera
• Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging
• Ultrasound imaging, including doppler ultrasound

Bioanalysis, diagnostic methods

• Electrophoresis, isoelectric focussing as applied to genomic and proteomic applications
• Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging as applied to metabolomics applications
• Biophotonic methods for analysis and imaging
• Overview of urine, blood and tissue based clinical diagnostic tests

Biohazards of electrical and electronic devices and related technology

• Electrical safety, particularly for medical applications
• Electrical environmental hazards and methods for managing these
• Radiation hazards

Sources of information and regulations with regard to medical devices

• Reports and investigations with respect to electrical/electronic technology on human health aspects
• Patent, academic and other research sources for medical technologies
• Regulations, standards, and approaches for taking devices from the research lab to the clinic

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Activities

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Staff requirements (including teaching assistants and demonstrators). Laboratory support: Demonstrators (x2) (Computer Laboratory - two weeks – 2 sessions a week (with 1/2 of the cohort in each) of 3hrs) Demonstrators (x2) (Electronics Laboratory - two weeks – 2 sessions a week (with 1/2 of the cohort in each) of 3hrs) Access to project laboratory, booking of benches by the students, technical support to manage biosensor storage and safe-keeping.

Textbooks

Jennings, D, Flint, A, Turton, BCH, Nokes LDM (1995). Introduction to Medical Electronics Applications. Edward Arnold.

Bushberg, J.T., Seibert, J.A., Boone, J.M., Leidholdt, E.M. (2000). The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Enderle, John D (2012). Introduction to biomedical engineering San Diego Academic Press.

Brown, B. H (1999). Medical physics and biomedical engineering. Taylor and Francis.

Clément,C. (2019). Brain-Computer Interface Technologies, Accelerating Neuro-Technology for Human Benefit.. Springer Link.

Chappell, M. (2020). Physiology for Engineers : Applying Engineering Methods to Physiological Systems.. Springer.

Brown, B.H., Smallwood, R.H., Barber, D.C., Lawford, P.V., Hose, D.R. (1999). Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. CRC Press.

Webster, John G. (2010). Medical instrumentation : Application and Design. Hoboken: NJ Wiley 4th.

Prutchi, D., Norris, M., (2004). Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation: A Practical Perspective of the Design, Construction, and Test of Medical Devices. Wiley Blackwell.

Ellis, H., Logan, B.M., Dixon, A.K (2001). Human Sectional Anatomy: Pocket Atlas of Body Sections, CT and MRI Images. Hodder Arnold.

Assessment strategy

One report of 33.3%, two laboratory activities with reports worth 33.3% each

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal