BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, Pilani
Pilani Campus
AUGS/ AGSR Division
SECOND SEMESTER 2024-25
COURSE HANDOUT
Date: 07.01.2025
In addition to part I (General Handout for all courses appended to the Time table) this portion gives further
specific details regarding the course.
Course No : EEE/INSTR F432
Course Title : Medical Instrumentation
Instructor-in-Charge : KARUNESH KUMAR Gupta
Instructor(s) : ---------
Tutorial/Practical Instructors: ---------
1. Course Description: Basic components of bio-medical instruments, bio-electric signals & recording
electrodes, transducers, recording and display devices. Patient care and monitoring systems, cardiovascular
measurements-blood pressure, blood flow, cardiac output, heart sounds etc.; instrumentation for respiratory
and nervous systems, analysis of EEG, ECG, EMG, EOG and action potentials, non- invasive diagnostic
measurements - temperature, ultrasonic diagnosis, CAT scan techniques, sensory measurements-motor
response, analysis of behaviour etc. biotelemetry, biofeedback, clinical laboratory instruments, X-ray
diagnosis. Recent advances in biomedical instrumentation- microprocessor based systems, lasers & optical
fiber based systems.
2. Scope and Objective of the Course: This course will cover various systems of the human physiology,
signals of biological origin obtained from these systems, biosensors, transducers, bio electrodes used to
acquire such signals and amplifiers for measuring bio potentials. Electrical safety of medical devices;
measurements of the blood pressure, blood flow, respiratory system, clinical laboratory equipment, medical
imaging, and bioethics will also be discussed. As a result, students can understand, design and evaluate
systems and devices that can measure, test and/or acquire biological information from the human body. The
course is divided into four modules, wherein, the first module deals with fundamentals of medical instruments
and will cover the physiological and anatomical factors that contribute to the generation of biomedical
signals/images. The second module deals with data acquisition of different types of biomedical signals/images
that are generated through various medical instruments and transducers. The third module deals with various
Biomedical devices including Bio MEMS and drug delivery systems. Finally, the fourth module will include
clinical relevance and patient safety.
3. Text Books:
T1: Cromwell, Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements; PHI, New Delhi, 2nd Ed. 2015.
4. Reference Books:
R1: R. S. Khandpur, Handbook of biomedical instrumentation, Tata McGraw-Hill.
R2: C. Raja Rao & S. K Guha, Principles of Medical electronics and Biomedical Instrumentation,
University press.
R3: John G Webster, Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design, John Wiley & Sons.
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5. Course Plan:
Module Lecture topics Reference Learning Outcome
Introduction Overview of the course, and its T1 Students will be able to
potential applications. understand the significance of
medical Instrumentation
Fundamentals of Introduction to medical T1 Understand the essential
Medical instruments, its basic components that are required in
Instruments components and their medical instruments.
classifications.
Understand the anatomy and
Anatomical and Physiological T1, R1 & physiology of the human body,
mechanisms of the human body - R2
that is required for determining
Biological neurons and different the source of the biomedical
biological systems: auditory, signal.
visual, respiratory, nervous and
cardiovascular.
Challenges involved in R1
Understand the role of engineers
measuring a living system and
in healthcare.
the role of engineers in
healthcare facilities.
Data acquisition Transducers and electrode T1, R1 & Understand the role of
of biomedical placement for recording the R3 transducers and electrode
signals/images biomedical signals/images. placements for recording various
biomedical signals.
Understand the role of clinical
Clinical laboratory instruments
instruments and its setup for
for biomedical signals/images. T1 & R1
recording biomedical signals.
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1D biomedical signals:
Electrocardiogram (ECG),
Electroencephalogram (EEG),
Electroneurogram (ENG), Understand how various
Electromyogram (EMG), biomedical signals are recorded
Electroretinography (ERG), and collected using various
Electrooculography (EOG), medical instruments and
Event-related Potentials (ERPs), transducers.
Action potential,
Electrogastrogram (EGG),
Phonocardiogram (PCG),
Speech production and
recognition, sensory and Oto-
acoustic emission signals
2D biomedical signals (or R1 Understand how various types of
images): X-Ray, Magnetic biomedical images are recorded
resonance imaging (FMRI), and collected using various
Ultrasonic images, CT scans, medical instruments and
and PET. transducers.
Bio medical All types of medical devices R3 Understand about various types of
devices biomedical devices and their roles
in real world applications of
biomedical fields.
Clinical Therapeutic and prosthetic T1 Understand the challenges faced
Relevance devices, rehabilitation, Patient in clinics for using prosthetic
monitoring systems and devices and on patient’s safety.
Electrical safety
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AUGS/ AGSR Division
6. Evaluation Scheme:
Component Duration Weightage Date & Time Nature of component
(%) (Close Book/ Open Book)
Mid-Semester exam 90 Min. 25% 06/03 FN1 Open Book
Research assignment (s) 21 days 20% ---- Open Book
Comprehensive Exam 3 hours 40% 10/05 FN Closed Book
Quiz (s) 20 min 15% ---- Closed Book
100%
7. Chamber Consultation Hour: To be announced in the class.
8. Notices: All notices related to the course will be placed on Nalanda.
9. Make-up Policy:
Prior permission from the Instructor-in-Charge is usually required to take a make-up test.
In case of an unanticipated illness preventing a student from appearing for a test, the student must present a
Medical Certificate.
10. Note (if any):
Instructor-in-charge
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