Cardiac Pacemakers

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The arrhythmia means abnormal rhythm of the heart. Rhythmic action of the heart is initiated by regularly recurring electrochemical impulses…

A Basic Biomedical Recording System

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Recorders provide permanent visual trace or record of an applied electrical signal. The most basic electronic recording system consists of…

Ultrasound Scanning Techniques

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Introduction Imaging systems employ pulsed ultrasound or the pulsed Doppler mode. The instrumentation system consists of: An electrical signal source…

How Ultrasound Measurements are used in Medical Diagnosis

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Introduction The application of ultrasonic in medical field is based on sonar principle as used by bats, anglers with fish…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

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PET scan is an imaging technique which produces images of the body by detecting radiation or gamma rays emitted from…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

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MRI is based on the magnetic properties of hydrogen which is one of the constituents of cerebral tissue and other…

What is CAT scan?

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The X-ray technique described in this post is a two-dimensional image. The most useful three-dimensional X-ray imaging technique is the…

X-ray Imaging

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Background of X-ray Imaging X-rays were discovered accidentally by the Germany Physicist William Roentgen in 1895, while experimenting with electron…

Introduction to Medical Diagnostic Techniques

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Diagnostic techniques are investigations and tests performed on patients with the intention to identify the cause of illness. The ultrasound…

Electrooculogram

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Electrooculogram is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record electrical activity of the eyeball. It is a test to measure the…