PHY636: Medical Electronics 6 credits (40-20-0)

Objectives

To explore the impact of electronic technology on today’s modern digital instrumentation, control and communication systems applied to medical physics.

Contents

Transistors; Differential amplifiers; Operational amplifiers; Binary system; Digital signals; Logic gates; Multiplexers; Timers; Counters; Decoders; Pulse width modulation; ADC and DAC conversion techniques; Serial and parallel ports; Theory and applications of microprocessors; Electrometers; LAN local area network; Addressing and control.