Bioelectromagnetism, Tampere University of Technology, 1985

Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Phenomena

COURSE PROGRAM

Lecturers

MONDAY 5TH AUGUST 1985
11.00	Registration
12.00	Opening of the course Rector Timo Lepistö
12.15	Electrophysiology of excitable cells Robert Plonsey Properties of excitable membrane - Ionic composition of intracellular/extracellular medium - Selective permeability (at rest, during action potential) - Hodgkin-Huxley formalism - Active process (pumps) electrogenic potentials
14.00	Coffee Linear core-conductor model - Electrotonus, Multicellular preparations - - Structure
15.00
TUESDAY 6TH AUGUST 1985
09.00	Electric and magnetic field of excitable cells Robert Plonsey Quasistationarity for the electric and magnetic field - Maxwell's equations - - > Laplace's equation - Volume conductor - Impressed current - Monopole and dipole field expressions
10.00	Coffee Source-field relations - Single and double-layer fields - Field discontinuity - - source equivalent - Secondary sources (Impedance boundary condition) - Single cell source - Cardiac tissue sources Uniform media - Isotropic - Anisotropic
12.00	Lunch Theoretical methods for analysing volume sources and colume conductors Jaakko Malmivuo Reciprocity theorem Solid angle theorem
14.00	Coffee Lead vector Image surface Lead field Gabor-Nelson theorem
15.00
WEDNESDAY 7TH AUGUST 1985
09.00	Mathematical description of cardiac tissue Robert Plonsey Intracellular junctions Continuum model - - bidomain description Discrete model - Behaviour under electrotonic conditions - Behaviour under action potential. Effect of velocity
10.00	Coffee Modelling of bioelectric sources John P. Wikswo Dipole Moving dipole Multiple dipole Multipole Forward and inverse problem Jaakko Malmivuo
12.00	Lunch Biomagnetism Jaakko Malmivuo Lead field theory applied to biomagnetism
14.00	Coffee Neuroelectric phenomena John P. Wikswo Cable equation Action potential in single axon Compound action potential in nerve bundle
15.30
THURSDAY 8TH AUGUST 1985
09.00	EEG, Evoked potentials Paul L. Nunez The physiological and anatomical origin of EEG Temporal and spatial properties of EEG Time dependence in neural circuits
10.00	Coffee Wave phenomena Brain waves: a theoretical and experimental basis
12.00	Lunch
13.00	Biomagnetism John P. Wikswo Magnetic field of a single axon and nerve bundles Magnetoencephalography Magnetic evoked potentials
14.00	Coffee Heart as a bioelectric source Toshiyuki Furukawa and Hiroshi Tanaka The physiological and anatomical origin of ECG Temporal and spatial properties of ECG Information content of ECG Bioelectric basis of ECG diagnosis
15.30
FRIDAY 9TH AUGUST 1985
09.00	Solution of the cardiac inverse problem Toshiyuki Furukawa and Hiroshi Tanaka
10.00	Coffee Magnetocardiography Jaakko Malmivuo Magnetic lead systems Vector magnetocardiography ECG-MCG relationship
12.00	Closing of the course

LECTURERS

Toshiyuki Furukawa, Professor
Institute of Medical Electronics
Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Jaakko Malmivuo, Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
Tampere University of Technology
Tampere, Finland

Paul L. Nunez, Associate Professor
San Diego State University
San Diego, California

Robert Plonsey, Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Hiroshi Tanaka, Dr
Institute of Medical Electronics
Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

John P. Wikswo, Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

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