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Bioinstrumentation
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Bioinstrumentation

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Bioengineering

Before this course

Circuit Analysis I

Topics

Biosensors

Main lesson
An enzyme sensor saturates
Use this for “Why does a glucose sensor read low at 20 mM?”
A strain gauge in a quarter bridge
Use this for “A quarter bridge at 5 V with GF = 2 sees 500 με. What is the output?”

Biopotential amplifiers

Main lesson
Instrumentation amplifier gain
Use this for “Which gain resistor gives a three-op-amp instrumentation amplifier a gain of 500?”

Medical imaging basics

Main lesson
Ultrasound echoes: depth and reflection
Use this for “An echo returns after 130 μs. How deep is the boundary, and what share does a fat–muscle boundary reflect?”
Larmor frequency in an MRI scanner
Use this for “At what frequency do protons resonate in a 3 T scanner?”
Ionizing or not?
Use this for “Which of X-ray, CT, PET, SPECT, MRI, ultrasound and OCT expose the patient to ionizing radiation?”

Signal filtering

Main lesson
Sampling fast enough
Use this for “What is the slowest rate that samples a 150 Hz ECG without aliasing?”
Course test
See what you know: 10 questions on this course
New questions each time. Pass to mark it complete.
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