Lectures
Dear Students, all Lectures will be in Presence Form.
All online lectures will be available in the program MS Teams.
Team - Biophysics MF CU Bratislava (channel Lectures)
Schedule of the lectures
| 1. | Introduction to teaching. Transport processes – active and passive transport, diffusion (1st and 2nd Fick's law), osmosis, filtration, adsorption. Resting and action membrane potential - generation and propagation of action potential, myelinated vs. unmyelinated fiber, graded potential vs. action potential, heart action potentials. |
| 2. | Biomechanics of blood circulation - physical laws related to blood flow, pressures, flow rate, resistance, blood flow, elastic effect, pulse wave, blood pressure measurement (methods: auscultatory, oscillometric, ultrasound). |
| 3. | Sound and ultrasound – properties. Ultrasound imaging. |
| 4. | Radioactivity - laws, units, half-life (physical, biological, effective), natural and artificial radioactivity. Types of alpha, beta, and gamma decay. |
| 5. | X-ray radiation. Biological effects of ionising radiation, protection against ionising radiation. Detectors of ionising radiation. |
| 6. | Electrical diagnostic methods (ECG, EEG, ECoG, ERG, EMG, EGG). |
| 7. | Electromagnetic spectrum, non-ionizing radiation - light, infrared (Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wien displacement law). Electric current - direct current, alternating current, measurement, effects of current, safety (microshock, macroshock), faradic and galvanic currents. |
| 8. | Imaging methods in medicine (X-ray, CT, MR, PET, SPECT). |
| 9. | Fundamentals of mechanics (speed, acceleration, acting forces). Effects of mechanical and acoustic factors on the organism, sedimentation. |
| 10. | Laws of light propagation in an optical environment. Biophysics of visual perception. Optical and electron microscopy. |
| 11. | Biomechanics of movement, principle of lever, mechanical properties of tissues, Hooke's law. Biophysics of auditory perception. |
| 12. | Biomechanics of respiration - respiratory function, air flow - pressure gradient, respiratory resistances, retraction forces, surface tension, pneumothorax, alveolar pressure, interpleural pressure, diffusion rate, partial pressures, solubility of gases in the blood. Information about the exam. |
Readers:
doc. RNDr. Beata Čunderlíková, PhD.
doc. RNDr. Martin Kopáni, PhD.
doc. RNDr. Mgr. Katarína Kozlíková, CSc.
doc. RNDr. Pavol Vitovič, PhD.
Selected lectures can be found on the M E F A N E T web page
in section Biophysics or Medical Informatics and Information Science
http://portal.fmed.uniba.sk/index-en.php