Microcontrollers Applications in medical areas

Submitted by: 1.Kennedy Beyan 2. Kelemwork Tarekegn 3. Jemal Seid 4. Kassa Beyene 5. Habtemariam Legesse

Microcontrollers Applications in medical areas:

We want to have systems that : are reliable are small and lightweight have a low power consumption
These issues are critical when we deal with body implants

I: Introduction Microcontrollers
Some features / advantages of microcontrollers:
they are small and flexible easy to use ( most of the time .. ) few external components and wires needed low and ultra low power designs possible (-> PSoC, ASIC ) wide range of different microcontrollers available (memory, I/O, speed, busses, A/Ds ) data interchange using standard bus systems; -> various peripheral hardware accessible IDEs and tool chains for firmware programming /

Simulation and high level languages

-> 90% of the manufactured CPUs are not found in desktop PCs but in embedded systems, with growing areas of application: RFID, hidden "ubiquitous" computing, wearables, "smart environments", MEMS (micro electro-mechanical systems),Biomedical systems.

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Some examples for microcontroller-based biomedical devices / applications:
various sensors or meters: Body temperature, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar Level, Implants and prostetics Pacer makers (for heart, breathing, ...) functional Electrostimulation Orthesis and artificial limbs
Adam blood glucose meter

Biosignal acquisition equipment

www.heartratemonitor.co.uk

...contd portable emergency equipment (defibrillator, ..) Sports medicine Patient monitoring Smart Homes", service robotics
support of Communication for disabled persons wireless sensor networks / Body Area Network (BAN) Sensors and Actuators for stationary medical equipment
Life-point defibrillator Spo2 Module

Microcontroller In Research(body area network[BAN])

Pace Makers and Functional Electro-Stimulation

current pacemakers have 5-7 yrs. battery lifetime feedback loops -> adapt to physical needs multichannel stimulation and measurement electrodes

Parkinson relief from deep brain stimulation

lack of dopanine in substantia nigra hyper-activity of nerve cells pacemaker inactivates those cells

Other Areas for FES - Implants / Pacer Makers

Some examples: muscle activation / support gastrointestinal support breathing support chronic pain relief

Other Application of microcontroller in Medical Areas

Regulated Power supply for biomedical instruments-Many experiments in the lab are done which require the regulated power supply in the experiments of Bio medical laboratory. Light Filtering Polymers for More Biocompatible Coatings on Medical Devices Biomedical Sleep Inducer Muscular Bio-Stimulator Emotional Stress Indicator Smart Hearing Aid Identifying the structural basis of epileptic and functional networks in candidates for anterior temporal lobe resection Bio-Tele monitoring system using Internet. Bio-Telemetry system. Remote monitoring system in Bluetooth communication. Patient monitoring system using PC

 Drips Monitoring system using PC. PC based Pluseoximeter. O2 Management system. PC based ECG analyzer. Computerized Brain wave machine. Human body motion sense. Heart Beat monitor with record using PC. Blood pressure monitor with high and low pressure Alert System. Computerized Wight Analyzer. Temperature Analyzers with computerized graphical image. Bio-Image Processing. Patient Record Analyzer. Computerized SPO2 management system using FFT. Wireless data recording system. PC based scanning system. Centralized monitoring system

Spiro measurement system. Automatic defibrillator. Multi-Para monitor. Bio electrical interface. Biomeric access control system. Biometric security system. Blood gas analyzer. Blood-flow measurment system. Computorized cardiac image analyzer. Computerized cardiac patient monitoring system. Device to measure the stiffness of intact mouse heart. ECG monitor. EEG monitor & analyzer. EMG monitor & analyazer. Ultrasound fetal heart beat monitor. Fiber optic transmission of biomedical parameters.

 Heart beat monitor using Microcontroller with LCD. Multi channel temperature monitor. Ultrasonic blind helper. Pacemaker. Patient monitoring system. Personal identification and verification based on multiple biometric features. Pressure monitor. Respiration monitor. Robotic image guide biopsy. Short range medical telemetry system. Syringe, infusion pump. NON-contact thermometer

References http://www.firstscience.com http://www.parkinson-club-u40.de/ http://www.bio-pro.de/ http://www.altenpflegeschueler.de/