| TBME50 | Biomedical Engineering, 3 ECTS credits. /Medicin och teknik/ |
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Area of Education: Medicine Subject area: Biomedical Engineering |
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| Advancement level
(A-D): B
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| Aim: The course aims at providing an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of biomedical engineering by giving a methodological survey of an engineering approach to diagnostics and therapy. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) Basic skills from freshman and second academic year at LiTH. Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Supplementary courses: TBME 02 Anatomy and Physiology TBMT 01 Biomedical Signal Processing TBMT 02 Medical Imaging TBMT 23 Physiological Pressures and Flows TBMT 22 Intensive Care and Rehabilitation TBMT 40 Biomedical Transducers TBMI 17 Medical Information Systems TBMI 27 Classification and Decision Support TBMI 30 Telemedicine TBMT35 Bio-optik |
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| Organisation: Lectures (22h), seminars (10h) and laboratory work (8h). |
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| Course contents: Survey of the field of biomedical engineering, medical terminology Diagnostics and therapeutics in health care, definition of diseases and well being. Methods and techniques for physical examination, medical imaging and radiology, therapeutic intervention. Laboratory experiment: measurement of biomedical signals (4h), measurement of respiratory and cardiovascular parameters during work load (4h). |
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| Course literature: B Jacobson. Medicin och teknik. Studentlitteratur 1995. |
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| Written report and poster project. Laboratory work |
1,5 p 0,5 p |
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| If the number of exchange students are large the teaching language is english. If not, the exchange students, will be given the opportunity to have an english mentor during the course. Degree is only passed/not passed |
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Course language is Swedish. Department offering the course: IMT. Director of Studies: Göran Salerud Examiner: Ola Eriksson Link to the course homepage at the department Course Syllabus in Swedish |
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