Artificial Organs & Rehabilitation Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Artificial Organs & Rehabilitation Engineering (subject code 2723108) as prescribed for BE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 44 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2723108)Unit 1 Introduction to artificial organs
- Biomaterials used in artificial organs and prostheses
- Rheological properties of blood
- blood viscosity variation: effect of shear rate
- temperature and protein contents
- Casson equation
- flow properties of blood through the blood vessels
- problems associated with extracorporeal blood flow
Unit 2 Artificial kidney
- Brief of kidney filtration
- basic methods of artificial waste removal
- equation for artificial kidney and middle molecule hypothesis
- Hemodialysers: flat plate type
- coil type and hollow fiber
- Analysis of mass transfer in dialyers (cross current & cocurrent flow)
- regeneration of dialysate
- membrane configuration
- wearable artificial kidney machine
- separation of antigens from blood in ESRD patients
Unit 3 Artificial heart-lung machine
- Brief of lungs gaseous exchange / transport
- artificial heart-lung devices
- Oxygenators: bubble
- film oxygenators and membrane oxygenators
- Gas flow rate and area for membrane oxygenators
- Liver support system
- artificial pancreas
- blood and skin
Unit 4 Audiometry
- air conduction
- bone conduction
- functional diagram of an audiometer
- Hearing aids: different types
- receiver amplifiers
- I.A.B.P principle and application
Unit 5 Rehabilitation Engineering
- disabilities and handicaps
- Measurement and assessment
- Characterizing engineering concepts in sensory and motor rehabilitation
- Engineering concept in communication disorders
- Rehabs for locomotion
- speech & hearing
- Artificial limb and hands
- prosthetic heart valves
- Externally powered and controlled orthotics and prosthetics
- Myoelectric hand and arm prostheses
- The marcus intelligent hand prostheses
- gait study
- spinal rehabilitation
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