LEARNING OUTCOMES

Theoretical / practical course: fundamentals of modern systems for biomedical measurements, knowledge necessary to understand the functioning of the diagnostic biomedical instrumentation, acquisition tools; analysis and management of bioimaging.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course will examine some types of instrumentation for the acquisition of biomedical signals with particular reference to imaging diagnostic equipment and the processing of biomedical data. Describes operational principles, design issues, state of the art, and future prospects for further development, taking into account the problems of interaction with the human body and patient safety.

PREREQUISITES

It is assumed that the student knows the differential equations, has a good physical-chemical basis, has followed a course in electrical and electronic circuits, an introductory course in physiology or modeling of physiological systems and a course of programming (in particular Matlab)

TEACHING METHODS

Combination of traditional lectures (96 hours) and practice at the computer activities (24 hours). The teaching consists of ltraditional lectures (96 hours), and a part of practice at the computer activities (24 hours). Required course attendance as per the Didactic Regulations. The laboratory will be held by the teaching teachers, assisted by laboratory tutors.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Architecture and performance of a biomedical measurements system. Characteristics of the main biomedical signals. Ultrasonic instrumentation: A-mode/ B-mode/ M-mode ultrasound, Doppler flow meters. Optical microscopy, fluorescence and confocal microscopy. Biomedical instrumentation: system radiography (X-ray, CT scan), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), EEG. Processing of biomedical images: punctual and local operations, filtering, co-registration, display systems, segmentation, pattern recognition, three dimensional reconstruction.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

All slides used during lessons and other teaching materials will be available on aul@web. The books listed below are strongly suggested as supporting texts to complete the student's preparation, but students can also use other university level texts as long as they are published in the last 5 years.

J.G. Webster. Medical Instrumentation - Application and Design 4th Edition. Wiley.

Rafael C. Gonzales, Richard E. Woods - Elaborazione delle immagini digitali (terza edizione)

Zhi - Pei Liang, Paul C. Lauterbur - Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Scott A. Huettel, Allen W. Song - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging