Design, Development and Reliability of Medical Devices

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Department of Measurement

Synopsis:

The syllabus of this course consists of tasks concerning with design, but more in detail with development of medical devices. The course is exclusively focused on practical training. We suppose knowledge of Electronics and Circuits theory courses. After the going through this course the student will able to design a simple medical equipment and produce a bases for its development and production.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. Safety regulations of medical devices production, structure of medical devices

2. Modern electronic elements, properties, selection and application rules

3. Electromagnetic compatibility of medical devices

4. Power supplies, grounding, shielding, methods of interference rejection

5. Input circuits, galvanic separation, selections of leads

6. Pre-amplifiers and amplifiers of biopotencials

7. Filtration of biosignals and interference signals

8. Oscillators, generators, ADC, DAC, S/H, memories, decoders, MUX, sp. proces.

9. Medical devices as peripheral devices of PC (interfaces)

10. Design of printed circuit boards (PCB)

11. Mechanical design, cooling, debugging and bootstrapping

12. Definitions of basic terms, basic parameters of reliability

13. Reliability of systems, methods of reserving

14. Computation of no-failure operation of systems, elements reliability

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Information resources related to medical devices design

2. Documentation - bases for development and production of medical devices

3. Soldering, SMD elements and methods, cables, connectors

4. Design and applications of coils, shielding, measurement

5. Power supplies design rules, mains transformers, rectifiers, regulators

6. Inputs circuits, galvanic separation, isolating transformers and amplif., leads

7. Design, application and measurement of analog filters for biosignals

8. Generators of specific signals

9. Complex design of biopotential amplifiers

10. Design of A-D chain for biosignal processing, interface to PC

11. Examination and check on a simple circuit (ADC with optical isolation)

12. Design of simple PCB and application

13. Design of simple PCB and application

14. Design of simple PCB and application

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Fries, R.C.: Reliable design of medical devices. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York 1997

[2] Kimmel, W.D., Gerke, D.D.: Electromagnetic compatibility in medical equipment. IEEE Press, Piscataway 1995

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: