Medical Instrumentation – Part 1

Biosignal Recorders

(Non-Interactive Online Course)

• Length: 6 weeks
• Instructor: Dr. Mohammad Mikaeili

Important Notes: 

• A “Certificate of Completion” will be awarded to you, if you complete at least 60% of the course.
• The full price of the course is $60. 
• With early bird registration before June 20th, you pay only $35.

Course Description

In this course, you will get familiar with popular Bio-potentials and their origins. You will see how these signals are recorded and how to design biopotential recorders. I will show you the building blocks of biosignal recorders and the practical aspects and challenges in designing them.

Course contents:

• Introduction to Biopotentials and their origins
  • ECG, EEG, EMG, EOG, ERG, EGG, ECoG, MEG, GSR, …
• Biopotential Amplifiers
  • Instrumentation amplifiers
  • Active and passive filters
  • Noise and Interference reduction
  • Patient safety and transient protection
• Introduction to Cardiac biosignal recorders -The Electrocardiograph (ECG) design
  • Analysis of two commercial electrocardiographs electronic circuits
  • Cardiac monitors
  • Impedance based respiration rate measurement
  • Basic Biotelemetry
  • Analysis of two commercial cardiac monitors electronic circuits
• Introduction to the brain biosignal recorders -The Electroencephalograph (EEG)
  • Basic Electroencephalograph circuit analysis
  • Cortical biosignal recording – The Electrocorticogram (ECoG)
• Introduction to the muscular biosignal recorders -The Electromyograph (EMG)
• Other biosignal recorders
  • The Electroneurograph (ENG)
    • Measurement of nerve conduction velocity (NCV)
  • The Electrooculograph (EOG)
  • The Electroretinograph (ERG)
  • The Electrogastrograph (EGG)
  • The galvanic skin response (GSR)

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