BME 3980T - Topics in Biomedical Engineering: Integrated BME Lab Topics

• Create and implement models of the cardiovascular system and its responses using theoretical approaches, Multisim, and MATLAB based on electric analogs
• Use computer models to determine parameters of experimental fluid and mass transfer systems
• Evaluate the applicability of experimental and numerical methods
• Execute and document laboratory projects effectively in a team
• Apply fundamental signal processing methodologies to analyze biomedical signals with a goal to extract system-specific pertinent information
• Demonstrate proficiency in using MATLAB (and/or other appropriate computer-aided tools) to analyze biomedical signals and systems, and for biomedical system modeling
• Set up complex biomechanics problems and solve them using a multidisciplinary approach

• Transient circuit analysis, Multisim circuit simulation, Laplace transforms and transfer functions
• Structured computer programming in MATLAB
• Sampling
• Discrete Fourier analysis
• Digital filtering

• Lectures will provide background information for respective laboratories

• Windkessel model of the human cardiovascular system
• Analysis of steady cardiovascular flows
• Physiological multi-compartment modeling
• Fundamentals of discrete Fourier transforms for biomedical signals
• Digital filter design and spectral analysis of biomedical signals
• Anthropometry
• Kinematics and kinetics of elbow flexion and EMG analysis