Measurement B, 5 cr

Core content

• Basic concepts and specialities related to the physiological measurements and biomedical engineering
• Measuring scales, SI system, basic terminology of  measurement technology and metrology, measurement standards, the structure of a measurement system.
• Measurement uncertainty, calibration, metrological traceability, and legal verification.
• Static and dynamic performance of a measurement system, measurement error, frequency response.
• Sensor for most common quantities (e.g displacement, temperature, pressure, acceleration, force) and their physical principles
  
• Use of multimeter and oscilloscope
  
• Generation of measurement signals, difference between analog and digital signal, AD conversion, Nyquist's sampling theorem, noise, interferences, measurement cards
  
• Basic use of numerical data analysis software, basics of data analysis (e.g. linear regerssion)
  

Complementary knowledge

• Develpment of measurement standards
• Siginifcance of calibration, metrological traceability, legal verification and measurement uncertainty analysis
• Link between frequency and time domain presentations
  
• Properties and unidealities of sensors
• The loading effect of measurement, basic unidealities of electrical measurement devices
• Signal conditioning
  
• Image based measurements
  

Specialist knowledge

• Link between measurement uncertainty and information theory
• Laplace-transformation, the mathematical analysis of the dynamics of measurement systsems
• Basic electrical circuits for sensors
• Electrical equivalent circuits
  
• Origin and coupling mechanisms of noise and disturbances