Electrical Engineering Labs

Biomedical Electronics Laboratory

Room Number: EB2-023

Lab Instructor: M.R. Narayanan

Lab Director: Dr. Hasan Al-Nashash

Course Number: ELE 439L

Our Biomedical Electronics Laboratory is used for teaching medical instrumentation, carrying out class and design projects, and for conducting research in biomedical instrumentation. It is equipped with computers, high resolution data acquisition systems together with appropriate software (Matlab, Biobench, Labview), bioamplifiers, isolation amplifiers, a programmable filter, an ECG multiparameter patient simulator, an electrical safety analyzer, a spectrophotometer, a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) training kit, an ultrasound flow meter, an ultrasonic transceiver and a printer. It also has basic test and measuring instruments such as digital multimeters, digital storage oscilloscopes, DC power supplies, function generators, digital stopwatches and breadboards.

This lab is used to conduct a wide range of experiments in medical electronics, such as measurement of biopotentials (such as ECG, EEG, EMG), temperature measurements, blood pressure measurements, heart and respiratory rate measurements, medical signal and image processing, NMR and spectrophotometry, electrical safety of medical equipment and data acquisition and signal processing. It is also used to conduct research on fetal ECG extraction, early detection of cortical injury after cardiac arrest, monitoring of the bone-fracture healing process and brain computer interface.

Apart from the scheduled undergraduate students' laboratory, this lab is also used to train engineers and technicians on medical electronics applications, especially in the fields of medical instrumentation and signal processing. It also provides facilities for testing the electrical safety of medical equipment and calibration of ECG, as well as temperature and blood pressure equipment.