Category Archives: BIOMEDICAL

SRISHTI 2k11-Biomedical Engineering Festival in Chennai on 24 August


SRISHTI, the yearly celebration of Biomedical Engineers creativity, the welcoming of fresh talent pool in the most sought after course, is back this year. This National Level Technical Symposium of the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the SSN College of Engineering proudly invites all its fellow Biomedical and Non Biomedical Engineering students to participate in this potpourri of technical and non technical competitions. Come 24th August, 2011, it’s time to revitalize your thoughts!

The annual technical magazine HOPPSLATE will also be released that day. Events galore, prizes many, it is one day you must not miss.

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Tips for Biotech Engineers For Masters in Biomedical Engineering

As the trend continues in India as well as abroad that students with the the undergraduate in Biotechnology opting for Biomedical Engineering in their Majors.
But this transition from Biotechnology to Biomedical Engineering brings in Many doubts in the mind of students. Some students are mindful to make this choice, But most of them had no idea as it seems to be the last option when they havent got admission anywhere around

How to pursue Masters in Biomedical Engineering with Bachelors in Biotechnology?

Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary field which accomodates students from all the backgrounds of the engineering from electronics related engineering to mechanical & to Biotechnology as well.

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Topic Wise Video Lecture Notes on Biomedical Photonics

Aim of Course
The course should provide knowledge about the physical properties of light and its impact and interaction with biological tissue.
Course Content
Optical properties of biological tissue. Light transport in tissue. Therapeutic window. Light transport models. Measurement of tissue optical properties. Optical coherence tomography, multi-photon excitation, flourescens, etc.

To download all the Video Lecture Notes, Topic wise click on the computer icon on Left hand side.

 

1 I Introduction
Course Content
Why Use Optical Methods?
Why Should You Learn Biomedical Optics?
Fundamentals of Optics
Overview of Spectroscopy
Classical Description of Light
Light-Tissue Interaction
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Biomaterials Research: Synthetic Material to replace Vocal Cords

In 1997, the actress and singer Julie Andrews lost her singing voice following surgery to remove noncancerous lesions from her vocal cords. She came to Steven Zeitels, a professor of laryngeal surgery at Harvard Medical School, for help.

Zeitels was already starting to develop a new type of material that could be implanted into scarred vocal cords to restore their normal function. In 2002, he enlisted the help of MIT’s Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, an expert in developing polymers for biomedical applications.

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Biomedical Research: New Driving Simulator For Rehablitation

Yubin Xi, an automotive engineering graduate student, tries out the driving simulator at CU-ICAR with Paul Venhovens, the BMW Endowed Chair in System Integration.

Clemson University researchers, working with simulation technology company DriveSafety, have developed a new driving simulator designed for patient rehabilitation that now is being used at 11 Army, Navy and Veterans Affairs facilities. The program recently expanded to Europe with the addition of a driving simulator at Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany.

Driving simulators provide patients with engaging treatment sessions in a safe environment, including practicing realistic driving skills. Therapists can work with patients on treatment areas including cognitive, perceptual and physical skills.

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Biomedical Innovation: Patient Specific 3D Blood Flow Model

For a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, spending time crunching numbers is leading to technologies that could save lives.

Thomas Hughes is developing three dimensional models of blood flow of individual patients.Thomas Hughes is developing three dimensional models of blood flow of individual patients.

Dr. Thomas Hughesand his colleagues have pioneered patient-specific 3-D models of blood flow through the heart and blood vessels that could help guide best practices for cardiologists.

Rather than relying on earlier computer models — where simple two-dimensional geometry shared little resemblance to actual anatomy — medical doctors can now use the work of Hughes to better understand how various medical interventions in the heart and vessels affect blood flow. As a result, crucial information can be provided about the safety and effectiveness of commonly used devices like stents, angioplasties and bypass grafts.

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