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PGFV
Course: Physics and its Applications
Department/Abbreviation: KEF/PGFV
Year: 2020
Guarantee: 'doc. RNDr. Roman Kubínek, CSc.'
Annotation: Diagnostic physical methods in medicine. Biosignals.
Course review:
Introduction - scope and main aims of medical physics and its position in medicine
Molecular biophysics - molecular properties of gases, liquids and solids, laws about gases and their meaning for breathing, solubility of gases in liquids, adsorption
Viscosity of liquids and blood flow - water and its properties, distribution and role of water in organism, disperse systems (solutions), diffusion and osmosis, osmotic pressure and its biological importance, izotonia
Biophysics of cells and biopotencials - Structure and properties of biological membrane, ion composition of body fluids, resting membrane potential, action potential, origin and propagation of action potential
Intrinsic and mediated biosignals - sensors and detectors
Action potential of heart and brain - function of conversion heart system, EKG scanning, basic profile of the curve, electric heart axis
Byophysics of blood circulation - heart as a pump, minute heart output, blood pressure, behaviour and regulation, measurement of blood pressure
Properties of blood and blood vessels - peripheral resistance, mechanic work and power of heart, transcapillary exchange of fluids, mechanism of swelling formation
Biomechanics of breathing - vital capacity and pulmonary capacity, investigation methods of respiratory system
Biophysics of sense perception - general principles, visual analyzer, colour and stereoscopic vision, vision defects and their corrections, acoustic analyzer, biophysics of hearing, investigation of ear, hearing defects and their corrections, audiometry
Diagnostic physical methods in medicine (introduction) - CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, ultrasound diagnostics