First meeting: Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 14:30 in room 321 of the Lyman-Duff Medical Sciences Building.
Rationale: Biomedical Engineering is a highly interdisciplinary research field. This course is intended to expose senior undergraduate students and new graduate students to a wide range of problems in biomedical research which makes use of tools and techniques from engineering and the physical sciences. The goal is to provide exposure to actual applications of techniques which they have in many cases only studied theoretically. Sample biomedical topics with associated engineering techniques are:
| auditory system | finite-element analysis |
| muscle | non-linear identification and parameter estimation |
| vestibular/oculomotor systems | modeling and systems analysis |
| neuromuscular control | system identification, automated experimental control and data acquisition. |
| natural/robotic arm | movement control |
| pulmonary function | measurement techniques |
| biological membranes | signal processing of point processes |
| structure segmentation | computerized pattern recognition |
| PET, CAT, NMR, EEG, MEG | image acquisistion and processing |
Credits: 3 (3-0-6)
Lectures: 3 hours per week, given on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 14:30 to 16:30.
Prerequisite: Signals and Systems 304-303 or 304-308 (or equiv), Complex variables, Differential equations I & II, recommended 304-404 or equivalent.
Reference list: Handouts, Web Pages, Journal review papers.
Grading:
Tentative Schedule:
The following table contains the course schedule to give an indication of the topics that will be covered.
| date | speaker | topic (w/links to interesting sites available) |
| 05-Sep-06 | Collins | Course Intro |
| 7 & 12-Sep-06 | Collins | Notes on Image guided neuro surgery (.pdf 10Mb), classification (.pdf 1.4Mb), segmentation, linear reg notes (.pdf 7.4Mb), old igns, and assignment |
| 14-Sep-06 | S. Rajagopalan | Electroactive polymers as neuromuscular interfaces and prosthetics: promise, reality and future challenges |
| 19 & 21 -Sep-06 | Nadeau | Photophysics of quantum dots and relationship to labeling of living cells (.pdf notes1a (3MB), notes1b (6MB)), and Fluorescent imaging for in situ life detection (.pdf notes2 (60MB)). |
| 26-Sep-06 | Juncker | micro- and nano-technologies |
| 28-Sep-06 | Evans | Population-based MR studies |
| 3 & 5-Oct-06 | Pike | MRI (notes) Diffusion notes, assignment |
| 10-Oct-06 | no class | monday schedule |
| 12-Oct-06 | Selection of Course project topic+supervisor for course project due | |
| 12-Oct-06 | TBA | TBA |
| 17-Oct-06 | TBA | TBA |
| 19-Oct-06 | Prakash | Designing artificial cells for targeted oral delivery |
| 24 & 26-Oct-06 | Funnell | The mechanics of hearing: applications of finite-element analysis and 3-D reconstruction of serial sections. Class notes |
| 31-Oct & 2-Nov-06 | Tabrizian | Biomaterials (notes 1 (ppt), notes 2 (pdf)) |
| 7-Nov-06 | Gotman | Electroencephalography |
| 9-Nov-06 | Mongrain | Cadiovascular devices |
| 14 & 16-Nov-06 | Galiana | Modeling and system analysis applied to vestibular and oculomotor reflexes (.ppt notes) |
| 21 & 23-Nov-06 | Kearney | Two topics: 1) Proteomics. (pdf notes) 2) Real time testing and system identification of peripheral neuromuscular control (pdf notes) and assignment and references |
| 28-Nov-06 | Bobyn | Surgical Implants |
| 30-Nov-06 | Dahger | PET imaging and analysis (see papers on instrumentation and modeling.) |
| 05-Dec-06 | Steffan | Surgical Implants |
| 05-Dec-06 | Course project due |
Academic Integrity: McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).
Course Director: Prof. L. Collins