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5~535 Biomedical Project
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Subject description
The development, construction and commissioning of a
biomedical instrumentation system.
~~537 Medical Imaging
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: assignments and tests
Subject description
Interrogation methods: beamed radiation (visible, IR,
Microwave, X-ray, Ultrasound), internally deposited radiation
(gamma rays, SPECT, PETT), selective excitation (NMR). Physical
qualities of tissue measured by the interrogation.
lmage construction methods: real-time ultrasound, interactive
and filtered back-projection methods in tomography,
algorithms and software implementation.
lmage enhancement methods: colour coding, edge detection,
noise reduction, digital subtraction, entropy methods.
Interpretation of images: image quality and contrast, system
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5. MTFs, ROC curves, information theory.
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Webbs (ed.), The Physics of Medical Imaging, Bristol, 1 OP, 1992
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SP541
Signal Processing
12.5 credit points
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Linear and non-linear systems, response functions.
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Signals, spectra, mean square estimation, orthogonality,
probability, stationary and non-stationary stochastic
processes.
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Data, smoothing, windows, averages, filters, digital
filters, recursive filters, auto-correlation, crosscorrelation.
System estimation, spectral analysis, correlation and
coherence, white noise methods.
Digital processing review of DFT, FFT.
lmage processing: image acquisition, enhancement,
restoration, reconstruction and segmentation.
SP542
Optical lnstrumentation
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: assignments and examination
Subject description
Incoherent and coherent light sources, types of lasers and their
applications. Detectors of optical radiation, modulation of
light, interferometer, lens design, fibre optics, Fourier
transforms and imagery.
~ ~ 5 4 4 Nuclear lnstrumentation
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Subject description
Detectors. Amplifiers. Analysers. Spectrometers. Shielding.
Pulse processing and shaping. Linear and logic pulse functions.
Multi-channel pulse analysis. Energy and time resolution.
Detector calibration. Radioisotopic assay. Tracer applications.
Activation analysis. Whole body counters. Scanners.
Scintillation cameras. Radiation effects and exposure limits.
~~545 Instrument Programming and
Interfacing
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: practical work, reports, assignments,
examination
Subject description
Interfacing peripheral devices
Interfacing techniques between computers and instruments.
The Forth programming language. Handshaking multi-tasking,
interrupts. Real time data handling.
General purpose instrumentation bus (IEEE 488), the IZC bus.
5~547 Instrument Electronics
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: examination and laboratory reports
Subject description
Electronics for biomedical instrumentation, including
instrumentation amplifiers, isolation, noise suppression,
microprocessors, etc. Use of a computer-based circuit design
and simulation techniques.
~~553 Introduction to lnstrumentation
Electronics
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: practical work, reports and
examination
Subject description
DC circuits, Ohms law, power dissipation, Kirchoff's laws,
Thevenin's theorem, Norton's theorem; AC circuits, sine waves,
amplitude, phase, phasor representation, complex number
representation, capacitance, capacitive reactance, inductance,
inductive reactance, impedance calculations for simple RLC
circuits.
Amplifiers, input impedance, output impedance, loads,
operational amplifiers, the ideal operational amplifier, the
inverting configuration, the non-inverting amplifier, the
differential amplifier.