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VOLUME
IV
ISSUE 4
MEDITRONICS
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Inside this
Issue
“HOD SPEAK”
Biomedical Engineering has only recently
emerged as its own discipline, compared to many other engineering fields. Much
of the work in Biomedical Engineering consists of research and development.
Prominent Biomedical engineering applications include the development of biocompatible prosthesis, various diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices ranging from clinical equipments to micro plants, common imaging equipment such as
MRIs and EEGs, regenerative tissue growth , pharmaceutical drugs and therapeutic biological.
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Faculty Profile Prof. Preeti Mistry
Prof. Neelam Punjabi
Technology Update–
Prof. Swapna Jaywant
Health Research receives U.S.
Army grant for neuroimaging
studies of human performance
Head of Department
Biomedical Engineering
MRI Method Fingerprints Tissues and Diseases
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Technology HighlightMedical Ventilator
Know an Alumnus - Siddhi
Sawant
Events organized in the DepartmentGuest lectures on “Career Advancements in Biomedical Engineering” , “Hospital Management and servicing in Biomedical Engineering”, “Intellisuite
Software and Introduction to
MEMS”,and “Intellectual Property Rights and Patents”
Toppers Felicitation Program
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Quiz on Medical Imaging
Student Speak
Event Updates
Student
Spotlight
Ms. Ashita Mohile was ranked at
the 5th position in the Mumbai
University exams (BE)
Ms. Aishwariya Ambire topped
in the class in second year in
the exams held in December
2012
Ms. Kshipra Kapoor topped in
the class in third year in the
exams held in December 2012
Mr. Sahil Potnis topped in the
class in final year in exams held
in December 2012.
01 April
2013
In this semester a number of extra curricular activities were conducted. Namely,
3 gadget guru were conducted in which few students from second year explored
on some current inventions in different field. Then, a number of guest lectures
were conducted like “Intellectual Property Rights and Patents”, Career Advancements in Biomedical Engineering” etc.
Currently, the students as well as the department is engaged in the cultural and
technical events followed by the vivas and written exams. Hoping to get an excellent academic result of our students in the upcoming exams.
Guest Lecture on “Career advancements in Biomedical
Engineering”
A seminar on “Career Advancements in Biomedical
Engineering” was organized
by BMSA Committee for the
TE and BE Biomedical students on 23rd January 2013
in VIT seminar hall, D block.
The seminar was given by
Ms. Renuka Sharma from
Yogi Kripa Medi Chem., who
“Career Advancements in Biomedical Engineering” by
is an alumnus of VIT passed
Renuka Sharma
from the Biomedical Department in 2010. She completed
her MBA in marketing from SIES college. The speaker first gave an overview of the areas in which the Biomedical engineer can work and also explained about the different opportunities for a Biomedical Engineer in the hospitals and industries. She shared her experiences in the corporate world after completing college.
Guest Lecture on “Hospital Management and Servicing
in Biomedical
Engineering”
A lecture on “Hospital Management and Servicing” was organized by the BMSA Committee
for the second year Biomedical
students. The lecture was conducted by
Ms. Pooja
Ma-
zoomdar, a service engineer at
Pinnacle Biomedical Pvt. Ltd..
“Hospital Management and Servicing in Biomedical Engineering” by
Pooja Mazoomdar
She presented on how working
in hospitals can be a good career option for the budding biomedical engineers. The students got well acquainted
with the job profile of biomedical engineers required in a hospital.
Quote of the Quarter“ Formal education will make you a living: self education will make you a fortune” - Jim Rohn
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Faculty Profile
Name: Prof. Preeti Mistry
Designation: Lecturer
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Qualification: B.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Vidyalankar Institute
of Technology in 2010
Teaching Experience : 3 years
Areas of Interest: Biomedical Instrumentation, microprocessor and microcontroller, Transducers and sensors in medical field
AiC: Health Research receives U.S. Army grant for neuroimaging studies of human performance
The Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research (AiC:
Health Research), of Virginia Tech's National Capital Region, has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative research
and development agreement from the U.S. Army for neuroimaging studies of human performance. "Sleep (or lack of
sleep) affects our physical and neurological performance,"
Mun said. "The central scientific effort of this project will be
to improve our understanding of how the brainstem
and thalamus regulate sleep in humans, and how these
systems are affected by stress and sleep restriction." Mun
said this area has received little attention in the past, largely
because it lies deep within the brain in a region that is difficult to study. As a result, most of what is known about this
region comes from animal models, which have different
Neuroimaging studies
sleep patterns than humans. A few human studies have
been done in this region, but they result in poor spatial resolution that cannot identify detailed brainstem structures. "With the technological advances made by Cho's institute in Korea, we now have the capacity to image the living human brain in unprecedented detail," Mun said.
"The combination of high resolution positron emission tomography (PET) and 7-Tesla magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) enables us to image brain biochemistry in vivo and precisely localize that activity." Cho's institute is the only facility in the world with combined imaging capability of 7-Tesla MRI and PET, Wong added.
"This project will focus particularly on serotonin systems in the brainstem and thalamus, because they play a
key role in sleep cycling, mood, and stress responses," Wong said. "Dr. Larson-Prior is a noted expert on sleep
neuroscience; her laboratory at Washington University will complement the PET/MRI studies with
electroencephalography (EEG) and functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI)." A parallel goal for the project is to
create a reference database and teaching files for the Army on advanced MRI methods such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and tractography. "There is currently a great need to help physicians understand and use
results from diffusion-based MRI techniques," -zcan said. -zcan will participate in establishing an archive of
diffusion studies obtained using the 7T MRI system in Korea.
MRI Method Fingerprints Tissues and Diseases: Aims
for Fast and Affordable
Scans, Early and Quick
Diagnoses
Name: Prof. Neelam Punjabi
Designation: Lecturer
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Qualification: B.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Thadimal Shahani
Engineering College in 2009.
Teaching Experience : 3 years
Areas of Interest: Biomedical Instrumentation, Microprocessors, Hospital
Management, MEMS
Each body tissue and disease has a unique
fingerprint that can be used to quickly diagnose
problems, the scientists say.
By using new MRI technologies to scan for different physical properties simultaneously, the
team differentiated white matter from gray matter from cerebrospinal fluid in the brain in about
12 seconds, with the promise of doing this much
faster in the near future.
New MRI Method Fingerprint Tissues and Diseases
The technology has the potential to make an
MRI scan standard procedure in annual checkups, the authors believe. A full-body scan lasting just minutes would provide far more information and require
no radiologist to interpret the data, making diagnostics cheap, compared to today's scans, they contend.
"The overall goal is to specifically identify individual tissues and diseases, to hopefully see things and quantify
things before they become a problem," said Mark Griswold, a radiology professor at Case Western Reserve
School of Medicine and UH Case Medical Center. "But to try to get there, we've had to give up everything we
knew about the MRI and start over."
Secrets of Excellence
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” - Aristotle
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Know an Alumnus
Medical Ventilator
Ventilator machines help to supply oxygen in the respiratory system, when the
individual is unable to breathe. These machines are unusually found in clinics
or hospitals, but nowadays due to vast improvement in the technologies, these
machines are available for home usage also. Other than home ventilator machines, wheelchairs, nutritionals, suction machines, lifts and extensive inventory
of ancillary equipments are available as home equipments. Ventilator machine
is the device which is designed in such a way that it can mechanically move the
breathable air into and out of lungs for making the patient breathe smoothly,
especially if he/she is unable to breathe or cannot breathe sufficiently. This
equipment is also known as respirator which assist the oxygenated air to go
inside the lungs without any problem. Most of the people who have a family
member needing ventilators must have the idea of how large and complex ventilators settings in the hospital are. However, nowadays, home ventilator machines are made available, so that it can be convenient for the patients to use it
at home which is portable and light in weight.
Medical Ventilator
Name of Alumnus: Siddhi Sawant
Siddhi Sawant, an alumnus of VIT ,
passed out in the year 2011 from
the Biomedical branch.
Where are you doing currently?
Currently I am working at Vidyankar
college as a lecturer. I joined this
institute immediately after completing
my Bachelors in Biomedical. I am
planning to pursue Masters in Engineering which will improve on my
technical knowledge so that I can
provide the best of the education to
my students.
How is the transition from campus
to corporate?
It was very good. Of course college
days can never be compared with
any other days of life but still the fact
being that teaching is my passion,
helped me a lot to cope up with all
the difficulties. I have experienced a
good working environment and very
helpful people around me.
How has VIT helped you?
VIT always has kept a motto of growing in all aspects so that the students
of VIT grow. Being a student of
Vidyalankar, I have always enjoyed
all the facilities provided to us. Mainly, I would like to stress on the excellent faculty that I have experienced
out here. The teachers were very
helpful and understanding. The way
my teachers have sharpen me in
terms of knowledge, motivates me to
work hard, so that I can also reach
the same level one day.
Gadget Guru
The Gadget Guru was conducted twice in the semester by the BMSA committee. The first Gadget Guru on 6th
February 2013 was conducted by Sanika Suvarnapathaki from SE Biomedical on “Arcadis Avantic Machine” and
Nikhil Goregaonkar from SE Biomedical on “Shenu hydraulic System”. The second Gadget Guru was conducted
on 6th March 2013 by Gauri Tmabe from SE Biomedical on “OPAD” and Dattaraj Sansgiri from SE Biomedical on
“Hypothetical Innovations”.
Guest lecture on Intellisuite
Software and Introduction to
MEMS
A guest lecture was conducted for the final year Biomedical
students on IntelliSuite Software Demonstration and Introduction to MEMS on 18th February 2013 in the Seminar Hall, B105, VIT. The lecture was given by Mr. Sripadaraja K. , Product Manager at SriDutt Technologies Pvt. Ltd.,
Banglore.
Guest lecture on Intellectual Property
Rights and Patents
A guest lecture was conducted for the final year Biomedical students on Intellectual Property Rights and Patents on 8th March 2013 in the Seminar Hall, B
-105, VIT. The lecture was given by Mr. Darius Dalal, currently a partner at
Ms. Jehangir Gulabbhai Bilimorial and Daruwalla.
Toppers Felicitation Program
The toppers of the Second, Third and final year Biomedical Department and even the subject toppers were felicitated in this program. The program was conducted and was coordinated by Prof Swapna Jaywant, HOD of the
Department and Prof. Richa Rajani, Academic Coordinator.
Secret of Success
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” - Winston Churchill.
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Quiz on Medical imaging
Upcoming Events
Guest
Lecture
on
“Designing of Radiology”
About: A guest lecture is organized for the final year Biomedical
students on “” by Mr. Sagar Apte,
Senior Biomedical Engineer at
Kohinoor Hospital. The lecture will
include exposure to the guiding
principles for designing of radiology department.
Organizer: VIT
Q1) This imaging modality utilizes a wide beam of ________ for image acquisition and is the first imaging
technique available in modern medicine.
A) Radiation therapy
B) Nuclear fusion
C)
Ionizing Radiation
D) X ray
Q2) ________ scans on the entire brain can accurately pinpoint hippocampal atrophy rate
while PET scans is able to measure the brain’s metabolic activity by measuring regional glucose metabolism.
A) Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
B) Medical Imaging
C) Magnetic resonance Imaging
D) Positron Emission Tomography
Q3) Short-lived positron emitting isotope, such as 18F, is incorporated with an organic substance such as ________, creating F18-fluorodeoxyglucose, which can be used as a marker of
metabolic utilization.
A) Carbohydrate
B) Fructose
C) Sucrose
D) Glucose
Where: VIT
When: 2nd April, 2013
Student Speak
I am very glad that I am part of VIT , an institute determ)ined to bring revolution in way things are taught , in
ways how students interact with teachers, in ways how knowledge is imparted.
VIT is a place where students are not just taught engineering but they are taught to THINK. Think ahead of
the time and that's the necessity of an invention . May it be
VIT is a place where students
are not just taught engineering
beyond the box and that's what differentiates us from the rest.
but they are taught to THINK.
Care is taken that each and every facility is provided for overall
Think ahead of the time and
development of students. The Institute provides high tech
that's the necessity of an invention
classrooms and lab with all facilities that creates an enthusiascurricular or extra-curricular students are encouraged to Think
Tantarvihar
About: Tantravihar is a project
exhibition event organized at VIT
wherein the projects of the final
year students are exhibited. The
experts from various industries
are invited for the event who may
provide with ideas for improvement
tic environment which encourages students to learn and invent.
The technical workshops make sure that all the students are
aware and updated about the latest technologies used in the industries thus making us more technically
sound
. I'm very glad that I am part of such a great institution.
Organizer: VIT
Aditi Tondulkar
Where: VIT
SE Biomedical
When: April , 2013
Go The Distance
Guest
Lecture
on
“Biosensors and Fiber Optic
sensors”
About: A guest lecture on
“Biosensors and Fiber optic
sensors” is scheduled for the
second year Biomedical students. The lecture will be given
by Mr. Nirmal Punjabi who is
currently pursuing PhD at IIT
Bombay.
Organizer: VIT
2nd International Multi-Conference on 4th International Conference on Stem Cells
Chemical, Ecological and Biological Scienc- and Cancer (ICSCC-2013)
es (IMCEBS’2013)
The 2nd International Conference on “Chemical,
Ecological and Biological Sciences” is scheduled on
8th to 9th May, 2013 at Penang, Malaysia. The idea
of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the universities all around
the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and industries.
An International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer is organized by International Centre for Stem
Cells , Cancer and Biotechnology (ICSCCB), Pune
on 19th to 22nd October 2013 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The conference covers basic/applied research
on proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of stem
and cancer cells, stem cell therapy, clinical trials on
stem cells, cancer diagnostics, anti-cancer drugs,
cancer therapeutics, HSC, iPSC, MSC.
Website: http://www.icscc.in/
Email: [email protected]
Website::http://www.bayviewhotels.com/georgetown/
Where: VIT
When: 9th April 2013.
Editorial Team
Chief Editor - Prof. Swapna Jaywant
Team - Prof. Preeti Mistry
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