Course Catalog 2010-2011
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Course Catalog 2010-2011

BME-2506 Physics and Engineering in Medical Therapy, 5 cr

Person responsible

Juha Nousiainen

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
Assignment
Online work




 
 4 h/per
 1 h/per
 25 h/per
 1 h/per




 




 




 
BME-2506 2010-01 Monday 12 - 14, SH304
Wednesday 14 - 16, SH304

Requirements

Accepted assignments, seminar work and oral presentation, and final exam.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Learning outcomes

After completing the course students can explain the indications for applying the most common engineering methods and solutions and their role in the treatment of different diseases, disorders, and disabilities. Students can explain the operation principle of most common engineering based therapy methods, their physical and chemical interaction mechanisms with and biological effects on tissues. Students can identify the importance and role of different engineering fields, like electrical and mechanical engineering, information technology, material science and tissue engineering in the design of different engineering solutions in medical treatments.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Importance and role of of different engineering fields in medical treatments.     
2. Interaction mechanisms and biological effects of different types of energies used in medical therapy: Electric current, laser, ionizing radiation, and mechanical wave.     
3. Electro-therapeutical methods: Muscle, neuro-muscular, neural electrical stimulation.  Neural prostheses.   
4. Assisting and supporting devices: cardiovascular and pulmonary.     
5. Artificial organ technologies: kidney, liver, pancreas, lung, heart, blood, skin, limbs, vessels.  Stem cell technologies.   
6. Operative devices: electrosurgey, laser, radiotherapy, robotics.  Lithotripsy.   
7. Methods in physical therapy.  Rehabilitation engineering.   

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Summary of lectures   Medical Therapy Devices   Nousiainen, J.            English  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
BME-2506 Physics and Engineering in Medical Therapy, 5 cr LTT-1150 Medical Therapy Devices, 3 cr +
LTT-1156 Medical Therapy Devices, 3 cr
 

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
BME-2506 2010-01       Contact teaching: 30 %
Distance learning: 5 %
Self-directed learning: 65 %  

Last modified07.07.2010