Title of Course: Digital Signal Processing
Exam number: lecture: XM 1200, lab: XM 1205
Length of course: 2 + 2 hours per week
Type of course: lecture, practical work
Language: English
Lecturer: Dr. U. G. Hofmann
Aim of the course: Provides a solid foundation and understanding of basic signal processing and some insights into its applications in the field of medical technology.

Recommended Literature:

• Lüke H, Signalübertragung. 6. ed. Springer, Berlin, (1995) 381 in German.
• Oppenheim AV, Schafer RW, Discrete-time signal processing Prentice Hall Signal Processing Series, Englewood Cliffs (1989) 879.
• Brown BH, Smallwood RH, Barber DC, Lawford PV, and Hose DR, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Series in Medical Physics, ed. C.G. Orton, J.A. Spaan, and J. G.Webster. Institute of Physics Publishing, London, (2001) 736.

Common module with: Oral examination will last for up to 20-30 minutes and will cover the whole range of topics from the previous lessons. No literature, script or utilities are permitted

Content
Basic signal processing knowledge:

• Intro, elementary signals, LTI-Systems, Dirac-puls
• Integration/differentiation simple circuits, causal systems
• Fourier Trafo as transfer fct. properties of FT
• FT of elementary signals, windowed cosine fct
• Energy signals, AutoCorrelationFunction, CrossCF, correlation
• Time and frequency discrete sampling, time discrete signals
• LSI-systems, time discrete FT, ACF, CCF, sampling, decimation, down and upsampling
• FIR and IIR Filter, Wavelet
• FFT, zero-padding etc…

Case studies :

• X-ray-radon transform
• Ultrasound
• heart-EEG, averaging and amplifiers
• hearing-cochlea implant MST
• brain-EEG, pacemaker
• peripherals - functional electro stimulation , EIT
• chemical paths, hormones-insulin pump
• vision - artificial eye, MST and bio-compatibility

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