Objective

This course is designed for students to gain an understanding of a variety of basic physiologic systems, bioelectric phenomena, statistic knowledge and modeling techniques. Through this course, students will learn the essentials of these physiologic systems and how these physiologic phenomena are modeled using mathematical and electrical fundamentals. Biomodeling topics of recent interest will also be discussed.

Syllabus

• Overview of bioelectromagnetism
• Nerve and muscle cells
• Subthreshold membrane potentials
• Active cellular membrane
• Electric activities of synapse, receptor cells and brain
• Electric activities of heart
• Source-field models
• Cochlear implants
• Other modeling techniques

Learning Outcome

By the end of the course, students should be able to

• Have an overall picture of various physiologic systems and the corresponding bioelectrical phenomena;
• Understand the functional principles of the components in the physiologic systems;
• Understand the principles of some classical models, such as H-H model, time-delay dispersion model, source-field model, etc;
• Understand basic statistic theorem for analyzing bioelectrical phenomena;
• Perform quantitative analysis for electricity generation and the performance of transmission;
• Understand the principles of techniques which are useful in model development; including their advantages and limitations; and
• Learn how to critically review the paper, identify the problems and suggest the potential solutions.

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