D. Prutchi and M. Norris, Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation - A Practical Perspective of the Design, Construction and Test of Medical Devices, ISBN: 0-471-67623-3, 450 pages, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, November 2004.

Chapter I: Chloriding silver electrodes, high-impedance EEG electrode buffer array, pasteless bioelectrodes, single-ended body-potential mapping ECG amplifier array, body potential driver, differential biopotential amplifier, instrumentation-amplifier biopotential amplifiers (EEG, ECG, EMG, EOG, etc.), switched-capacitor surface array EMG amplifier.

 

Chapter II: DC-coupled biopotential amplifier with automatic offset cancellation, biopotential amplifier with DC rejection, AC-coupled biopotential amplifier front-end, bootstrapped AC-coupled biopotential amplifier, biopotential amplifier with selectable RC bandpass filters, state-variable filters with tunable cutoff frequency, twin-T notch filter, gyrator notch filter, universal harmonic eliminator notch comb filters, basic switched-capacitor filters, slew-rate limiters, ECG amplifier with pacemaker spike detection, “scratch and rumble” filter for ECG, intracardiac electrogram evoked-potential amplifier.

 

Chapter III: Isolated biopotential amplifiers, transformer-coupled analog isolator module, carrier-based optically-coupled analog isolator, linear optically-coupled analog isolator with compensation, isolated 8-channel 12-bit A/D converter, isolated analog-signal multiplexer, ground bond integrity tester, AAMI standard microammeter for safety testing, HiPot tester.

 

Chapter IV: RF spectrum analyzer, near-field H-Field and E-Field probes, comb generator, conducted-emissions probe, line impedance stabilization networks, ESD simulators, conducted disturbance generator, magnetic field generator, wideband transmitter for susceptibility testing.

 

Chapter V: 12-bit universal sensor interface, sensor signal conditioners, using the PC sound card as a data acquisition card, VCO for DC-correct signal acquisition through sound card,  FFT and high-resolution spectral estimation software.

 

Chapter VI: Biopotential amplifier calibration signal generators, direct-digital-synthesis sine generator, 2-channel digital arbitrary waveform generator, multi-channel analog arbitrary signal source, responsive cardiac simulator for pacemaker testing, how to perform volume-conductor experiments with voltage-to-current converters and physical models of the body.

 

Chapter VII: Design of stimulation circuits for implantable pulse generators (current– and voltage-mode stimulators, capacitor-discharge and transformer-coupled stimulators), fabrication of implantable stimulation electrodes, external FES neuromuscular stimulator, TENS device for pain relief, transcutaneous/transcranial pulsed-magnetic neural stimulator.

 

Chapter VIII: Demonstration implantable pacemaker, external cardiac pacemaker, impedance plethysmograph (conductance catheter), intracardiac impedance sensors, external defibrillator, intracardiac defibrillator, cardiac fibrillator.

 

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