GBM518Applied Medical Image Processing
3 credits
The course will give students a good understanding and design principles for several effective techniques used for medical image processing. The course covers the main sources of medical imaging data (CT, MRI, PET, and ultrasound). Students will learn the fundamentals behind image processing and analysis methods and algorithms with an emphasis on biomedical applications. They will learn medical image reconstruction and multi modalities medical image registration.
GBM519Applied Medical Image Processing Lab
1 credits
The laboratory will give students a good understanding and design principles for several effective techniques used for medical image processing. The course covers the main sources of medical imaging data (CT, MRI, PET, and ultrasound). Students will learn the fundamentals behind image processing and analysis methods and algorithms with an emphasis on biomedical applications. They will learn medical image reconstruction and multi modalities medical image registration.
GBM529Artificial Organs and Rehabilitation Engineering
3 credits
This course covers the basics of artificial organs, their functionality and how they could help in the rehabilitation of patients. Rehabilitation engineering and artificial organs are the application of engineering analysis and design expertise to overcome organ failure and disabilities and improve quality of life.
GBM513Biochemistry for Biomedical Engineer Lab
1 credits
This laboratory provides students with the basic biochemistry methods used to extract, detect or quantify the macromolecules of the cell. Students will use spectrophotometer, liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, and thin layer chromatography. DNA extraction, its amplification by PCR and qualification by horizontal electrophoresis will also be conducted as well as genetic transformation.
GBM512Biochemistry for Biomedical Engineers
2 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM212
This course is devoted to the study of the relationship between structure, interaction and function of fundamental cell macromolecules (proteins, sugars, lipids, nucleic acids). It will also present the usual biochemical techniques useful to the engineer from the purification of these macromolecules to detection and quantification (application, optimization, and limitations). Mechanisms and enzymatic kinetics (industrial applications of enzymes) as well as the major metabolic pathways (catabolism, anabolism and energy storage) will be discussed. The course also covers protein engineering (protein chimeras and induced kinetic/thermodynamic changes) and DNA engineering (cloning, PCR, RT - PCR).
GBM517Biocompatibility and Biomaterials of Medical Devices
3 credits
This course gives the students an overview of biomaterial sciences. It covers different biomaterials used in the medical domain. It describes the structures and the proper properties of biomaterials and their biocompatibility properties emphasizing the different clinical usage in the human organism.
GBM620Bioinformatics
3 credits
This course provides students with an introduction to genomics, the information flow in biology, exploring DNA sequence data, the experimental approach to genome sequence data, and genome information resources. It then goes on to describe: functional proteomics (protein sequence and structural data, protein information resources and secondary databases); computation genomics (internet basics, biological data analysis and application, sequence and databases, NCBI model, file format, Perl programming, bioperl, introduction and an overview of the human genome project); sequence alignment and database search (protein primary sequence analysis, DNA sequence analysis, pair wise sequence alignment, FASTA algorithm, BLAST, multiple sequence alignment, DATA base searching using BLAST and FASTA); and structural databases (small molecules databases, protein information resources, protein databank, genebank, swissport, and enterz).
GBM621Bioinformatics Lab
1 credits
The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to use of computers to solve biological problems. The following will be included: use of the LINUX operating system; use of the PERL programming language for bioinformatics analysis; and use of bioinformatics programs on a desktop computer (local, BLAST, REPEATMASKER, CLUSTALW).
GBM638Control of Biological and Drug Delivery Systems
3 credits
This course describes the modeling and the control of biological, biomedical and drug delivery systems used in biomedical and pharmaceutical engineering. The control of biological and drug-delivery systems is critical to providing a long and healthy life to millions of people worldwide. In living systems, maintenance of homeostasis is credited to several mechanisms (positive and negative feedback loops). This course covers the basics of mathematical modeling and control of biological, chemical and pharmaceutical systems, in order that the students will be able at the end to design control-release devices, to control drug delivery rate, to design feedback controllers such as infusion control in vasoactive drugs, in gaze control systems, in insulin infusion and others.
GBM639Control of Biological and Drug Delivery Systems Lab
1 credits
This laboratory describes the modeling and the control of biological, biomedical and drug delivery systems used in biomedical, chemical and pharmaceutical engineering. This course covers a set of models, pharmacy-kinetics, and a set of simulations and dynamic behaviors of typical plants, and feedback controller designs. This laboratory will be delivered in Matlab, Mathematica, LabVIEW, E-Health Kits and other software.
GBM637Design of Medical Equipment
2 credits
This course is designed to educate students about medical devices design and concentrates on the diagnostic modalities fundamentals in addition to hardware design. It is divided into two parts: the aim of the first part is to provide an overview of the design life cycle of medical equipment and to present the essential procedures and methodologies required by medical engineers and designers to develop and release new efficient products to the market; and the aim of the second part is to describe the typical system requirements for the design of medical devices and to be able to understand each system’s functionality.
GBM650Hospital and Medical Equipment Planning
3 credits
The course covers the basics of hospital and medical equipment planning. The different topics include: reading and designing maps, electro-mechanical legends, mapping and planning of the different hospital departments (Emergency, Operating Department, Intensive Care Unit, Medical Laboratory, Radiology, Anesthetic). Applied projects will be discussed and designed in an interactive classroom environment.
GBM612Modeling of Physiological Systems
3 credits
This course provides the students with the basics of physiological models and basic biofeedback in medicine. It introduces them to the importance of cardiac modeling and respiratory modeling. The students will be able to understand and analyze respiratory anomalies in modeling and simulation and design. They will be aware of the artificial pancreas, anesthesia machine and the different control loops found in medical devices.
GBM613Modeling of Physiological Systems Lab
1 credits
The students will be able to design, simulate, implement and control physiological models and medical devices in the laboratory sessions and deliver projects (cardiac, respiratory, functional electrical stimulation, robotic hand and others).
GBM636Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy
3 credits
This course covers the basics of Nuclear Medicine Imaging, Gamma Camera principles including modern digital designs, SPECT, coincidence imaging principles, PET instrumentation, radionuclide and X-ray CT transmission scanning techniques.
GBM632Regulation of Medical Devices
1 credits
Medical devices, essential for patient care, are currently one of the fastest growing industries in the world. However, the dramatic increase in faulty medical devices that were able to enter the market over the last decades has caused Medical Devices Policy to become increasingly important. Governments and international organizations started putting in place regulations for the safe and appropriate design, use and disposal of these products. The aim of this course is to provide an overview of international medical device regulations. Country-specific regulatory requirements for the USA, EU, and Canada etc. are mentioned and students will learn the general requirements for Risk Management (ISO 14971), Quality Management (ISO 13485) and the CE marking of products.