Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation

DAVID PRUTCHI, PhD, received his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Currently, he is Vice President of Product Development for Impulse Dynamics. He has over fifteen years of experience in biomedical and medical electronic instrumentation research, design, and management. He has published over thirty papers and holds over sixty patents in the field of active implantable medical devices. MICHAEL NORRIS is a senior electronics engineer for Impulse Dynamics. He has over twenty-five years of experience as a medical device designer, including research, design and development of analog and digital circuits, microprocessors, and embedded software.

"The book is user-friendly, accurate...and will be very useful to anyone with a basic understanding of circuit theory…" (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, June 2006) "This reviewer will find this text a valued part of his library for the several areas extremely well elucidated. And talking with a few colleagues, the reviewer confirmed that this text will have wide appeal…" (Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, July/August 2005)"…details this application's unique requirements and constraints, exploring with general discussion, schematic diagrams, representative waveforms, and typical-design photos." (EDN Online, January 12, 2005)

• PREFACE ixDISCLAIMER xiiiABOUT THE AUTHORS xv1 BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIERS 12 BANDPASS SELECTION FOR BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIERS 413 DESIGN OF SAFE MEDICAL DEVICE PROTOTYPES 974 ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY AND MEDICAL DEVICES 1475 SIGNAL CONDITIONING, DATA ACQUISITION, AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS 2056 SIGNAL SOURCES FOR SIMULATION, TESTING, AND CALIBRATION 2497 STIMULATION OF EXCITABLE TISSUES 3058 CARDIAC PACING AND DEFIBRILLATION 369EPILOGUE 441APPENDIX A: SOURCES FOR MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS 447APPENDIX B: ACCOMPANYING CD-ROM CONTENT 451INDEX 457