Aim
The object with the course Biomedical Measurements is to give a broad understanding for the problems that are associated with the use of measurement technology in the medical environment. Applications within health and welfare as well as clinical research will be discussed. In combination with the diploma work, it will lay an excellent foundation for further work within the biomedical engineering as well as for scientific research.
The course is organized as a sequence of lectures given by selected lecturers, all of top quality within their competence areas.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• Give an account for occurrence and use of biomedical equipment in health and welfare as well as in medical research.

• Relate biomedical measurement problems to the students own technical competence.

• Assess the patient and personal safety with reference to occurring legislation and Swedish standard for biomedical equipment.

• Be well acquainted with common sources of error and measurement accuracy.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• Analyze real measurement problems within health and welfare and medical research, and thereafter

• Develop safe and accurate biomedical measurement systems, and accomplish

• Assessment of safety.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• Sort important information out of large materials, such as textbooks or manuals, without specific reading directives.

• Be able to verbally communicate results from experiments.

• Acquire sufficient knowledge and professional concepts to be able to describe ideas, problems and solutions to competent persons within the field of activities.

Contents
The course will give a broad outline over modern biomedical engineering. Examples of lecture captions include measurement of blood pressure, ECG, electromedicine, clinical chemistry, anaesthesiology, modern surgical methods, dialysis, audiology, pacemaker, medical laser, x-ray, digital radiography, computed tomography (CT), radiation methods for in-vivo measurements, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diagnostic ultrasound, dose planning, radiation therapy, telemedicine as well as risk factors and current legislation.

The course contains three laboratory experiment sessions and is finalized with a study tour to Lund University Hospital.

Literature
The lectures and the lecturer’s notes constitute the main body of the course. A set of the complete notes is collected in a binder that can be bought from the secretary of the department.
The literature mentioned below is optional supplementary reading, which elucidates different parts of the course. However, no single one of these books covers the whole course.
Ask P, Oberg P: Teknisk sakerhet i sjukvÂrden, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1984
Jakobsson B: Medicin och teknik. 4:e uppl., Studentlitteratur, 1995.
Jacobsson B: Teknik i praktisk sjukvÂrd, Studentlitteratur, 1998.
Webb S: The physics of medical imaging. Adam Hilger, Bristol 1988.