ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
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Your Exam Plug
, Bioinstrumentation - Answer: Transduction and measurement of physiological quantities
Diagnostic instrumentation - Answer: Convert information about a living system into a form that
humans can perceive
Transducers are very important
Therapeutic instrumentation - Answer: Used to arrest or control a physiological process
Assistive Instrumentation - Answer: Make up for diminished or lost funtion
Measurand - Answer: The physical quantity, property, or condition being measured
Typical: voltage, current, impedance
pressure, flow, displacement
temperature
chemistry
Transducer - Answer: Convert energy from one form to another
Measurand Challenge - Answer: Finding a transducable property of the event that distinguishes
it from other events or substances
specificity
Transducer Considerations - Answer: must not alter event being measured
minimally invasive
external power supply
Signal Conditioner - Answer: Operates on the signal produced by the transducer