Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Juha Nousiainen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 2 : Tuesday 14 - 16, SH304 Friday 10 - 12, SH304	KV-opiskelijat

Requirements

Exercise work (20%) and final exam (80%).
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

After completing the course you know the central physiological control systems of the body, how their functioning is described with different physical quantities and how these quantities can be measured. You also have a good command in physiological recording and instrumentation. In the exercise work you have went in more deeply into one recording application.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Physiological measurement systems, methods and instrumentations: sensors, signal conditioning, signal analysis.
2.	Measurements of essential physiological systems: cardiovascular system, neural system, respiratory and muscular system. Cellular level measurements.
3.	Ambulatory recording and patient monitoring.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Noninvasive instrumentation and measurements in medical diagnosis	Northrop, R.B.	0-8493-0961-1				English
Lecture slides	Measurements of physiological systems	J. Hyttinen			On the Internet		English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

Additional information

LTT-1126 is alternative with LTT-1120.

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures ITC Utilization Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 5 % Self-directed learning: 10 %

Last modified	07.08.2008
Modifier	Juha Nousiainen