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The Bio-Medical Specialty Area

Summary
The following are some of the areas included in the bio-medical specialty.

  1. Biomedical Instrumentation - This includes things such as remote heart monitors for heart patients, or portable blood sugar meters for diabetics.
  2. Medical Imaging - This includes MRI machines, CAT scanners, new types of imaging for breast cancer detection, etc.
  3. Neural & Brain Interfaces - Artificial retinas for the blind, Cochlear implants for the deaf, and prosthetic limbs controlled directly by the mind are examples of neural interfaces.
  4. Micro-electromechanical (MEMs) Systems - Micro-fluidic MEMs systems may soon lead to a revolution in the design of new drugs for treating diseases.  Micro-fluidic systems may be able to generate and test thousands of new compounds per hour in the search for new drugs.

Bio-Medical Research at the University of Arkansas
The following Electrical Engineering faculty are doing bio-medical research.  Details on their research & their labs can be seen by clicking on their names.

  1. Simon Ang is doing research in MEMs & micro-fluidics
  2. Magda El-Shenawee & Vasu Varadan are doing research on medical imaging using microwaves.  More on their research can be found by visiting the Electromagnetics site.
  3. Vijay Varadan does research on neural interfaces and on biomedical instrumentation.

Courses for the Bio-Medical Specialty Area
The bio-medical area encompasses so many other specialties that it is hard to specify a single set of courses that prepare a student well for this specialty.  The courses needed depend on a student's sub-specialization within bio-medical.

 
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