BE6460 2007
Electrophysiology and Bioelectricity of Tissues
Course Web Page

Important Course Information

This web site is for the Bioengineering course, which is running in the fall semester of 2007. If you are seeing this site after that semester, then treat this as history that may change before we teach the course again, probably in 2009.

• Organization meeting: Wednesday, August 22 at 3:00 pm at the CVRTI.
• Course Announcement please forward to anyone who might be interested in the course.
• Course Syllabus (HTML) and in PDF format.
• Please sign up for the course as Bioen 6460.
• Course text: there are copies of the text book at the University Bookstore, However, there are many internet sources for the book so please use them to find a good price. You may use either edition and note that the third edition has just come out so prices will drop quickly on the second edition.
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Course Notes, in Microsoft Powerpoint, Postscript, and PDF formats

• Weeks #1 and #2: Cellular EP background.
• Week #3: Biophysical background Part I: vector calculus and fields.
• Week #4: Biophysical background Part II (.5 MB pdf).
• Week #5: Propagation of Action Potentials (7.6 MB pdf).
• Week #7: Measurement of bioelectric fields
  
  • Part 1 (in B/W) (2.5 MB pdf) and in color (3.1 MB) .
    
  • Part 2 (in B/W) (4.1 MB pdf) and in color (9.6 mB) .
• Week #8: Bidomain approach to tissue modeling.
• Weeks #9 and #10: Extracellular fields and bioelectric sources (1.4 MB)
• Weeks #11: Electrocardiography and electroencephalography (4.5 MB)
• Week #12: Biomagnetism 1 (1.5 MB)
• Week #13: Biomagnetism 2 (2.1 MB)
• Week #14 and #15: Forward-Inverse Problems
  
  • Forward problems (3.6 MB pdf)
    
  • Defibrillation for pediatrics (16 MB pdf)
    
  • Inverse problems (1.8 MB pdf)
    

Reading Assignments

Homework Assignments and Lab Notes

The Assignments

• Assignment #2: Analysis of Epicardial Potentials
  • The assignment
  • The data file in MATLAB V7 format
    
  • The same data file in MATLAB V6 format
    
  • The version 7 data file in zip-compressed format
    
  • The version 6 file in zip compressed format
    NOTE Make sure to right-click (control-click on the Mac) on this link to download the file!!

  The report from this homework is due Monday October 15.

• Assignment #3: Biomagnetism
  • The assignment
  • For the fourth question of the homework, assume that the head is a perfect sphere, that will make it easier to answer the last two questions.
• Assignment #4: ECGSim
  
  • Paper on ECGSim,; please read this as background for using the program.
    
  • instructions for the assignment .
  • Also available in pdf format.

Useful links and course background material

• Syllabus in HTML, also available as PDF file
• Some notes on effective reading (and writing) of science papers from Dana Brooks (Northeastern University)
• The Science of Scientific Writing, also in pdf format . This is the best article I know for scientific writing. Mandatory reading!
• Additional background information.