Biomedical Engineering Laboratory

Equipment in the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory includes:

• three thermographic cameras;
• a sixteen-channel biological signal acquisition system for collecting myoelectric signals, ECGs, and EEGs;
• AlphaMOS Prometheus and Cyranose electronic noses;
• electrical impedance tomography and respiratory inductance plethysmography systems;
• a benchtop NMR spectrometer; and
• ultrasonic medical imaging/measurement systems

Advanced technologies being developed for diagnostics and treatment include:

ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosis as well as applications in telesurgery and telemedicine.

signal processing and compression of medical data in noisy environments;

artificial intelligence systems for estimating clinical outcomes in neonatal intensive care and other medical situations;

intelligent sensor systems for remote monitoring;

myoelectric control of upper arm prostheses, prediction of gene regulation and protein structure and function through bioinformatics;

diagnostic aid tool for rheumatoid arthritis;

imaging of regional lung function using electrical impedance tomography; and