1. Electrode sensors

• Action potentials
  Nernst equation, Hodgkin-Huxley model, action potential, voltage clamp
• Biopotentials
  ECG (electrocardiogram), EEG (electroencephalogram), ExG (other electrogram), ECGi (ECG imaging)
• Bioimpedances
  Impedance model, impedance plethysmography, impedance spectroscopy, EIT (electrical impedance tomography), PAP (pulmonary artery pressure)
• Basic safety of ME equipment
  Regulations, 60601-1, MOP, applied part and patient connections, leakage and auxiliary currents, defibrillator-proof
• Electrodes
  Electrode model, motion artefacts, noise, dry electrodes, potential and current electrodes
• Metrology of biopotentials
  EM interferences, shielding, neutral electrode, common mode, defibrillation and ESD protections
• Metrology of bioimpedances
  Bipolar and tetrapolar methods, bi-electrodes, AM, IQ demodulation, leakage, shielding

2. Optical sensors

• Photo-plethysmography
  PPG, oHRM, ambient light, volume clamp blood pressure, optical blood pressure, SpO2
• NIRS (near infrared spectroscopy)
  Basic NIRS, differential NIRS

3. Resistive sensors
Thermistor and its biomedical applications; strain gage for the measurement of blood pressure; force and accelerations of the body

4. Inductive sensors
Simple and mutual inductance and its medical applications

5. Capacitive sensors
Respiratory flow measurement by the gradient of pressure

6. Piezoelectric sensors
Force platform, accelerometer, angular rate sensor for the measurement of tremors and body movements, ultrasound transducer : measurement of pressure and flow rate