Biomedical Engineering

BME Breadboard Kit

Integrated Biomedical Engineering Teaching System: Hardware, Software, & Curriculum

With over five million successful lab hours in classrooms around the world, the Biopac Student Lab (BSL) offers the most meaningful, flexible lab experience for both students and instructors. The BSL Biomedical Engineering Teaching System provides extensive recording and analysis options for signal processing curriculum, including bioelectric and biomechanical studies. The data acquisition unit includes four universal, software-programmable amplifiers that can record biopotential and transducer signals.

Features

  • 60+ lessons targeted for Human & Animal Physiology
  • Signal Analysis & Processing
  • ECG, EDA (GSR), EEG, EGG, EMG & EOG
  • Force, Pressure, Strain, Flow,Temperature, Sound, Light
  • Filters (FIR & IIR)
  • Instrumentation Design
  • Respiratory System & Pulmonary Function
  • Bioimpedance (Cardiac Output & Blood Flow)
  • Biomechanics—Angle,Acceleration, Distance, Velocity Transducers & Calibration
  • Physiological Control Systems
  • Compartmental Modeling
  • Blood Pressure & Heart Sounds
  • Gait Analysis Chart, Overlap, Scope & X/Y Displays
  • Spectral Analysis & Histograms
  • Export to MatLab®, LabVIEW®, and MS Excel/Word®

BIOPAC systems provide a complete solution with hardware, software, and curriculum for higher education life science applications The BSL hardware/software combination creates a virtual instrument that can be tailored for a wide range of measurements with analysis tools for digital filtering, integration, differentiation, FFT, convolution, correlation, and a host of signal processing options. The Breadboard allows students to build and test real circuits and then use the software to compare real results to simulation. Collect, display and investigate data with the BSL System, or use it to direct data to industry-standard applications like MatLab or LabVIEW.

The BSL Biomedical Engineering system comes with the following:

  • BSL 4 Software (Lessons and PRO)
  • BSL Laboratory Manual MANBSL4
  • Searchable PDF Manuals and Tutorials (BSL PRO, Instructor’s Guide, Answer Key, etc.)
  • MP36 Data Acquisition Unit with USB Cable, DC Adapter (110V/60Hz or 220V/50Hz) & Cord (US or Euro)
  • 2 x Electrode Lead Sets – SS2LB
  • Disposable Electrodes (100/pk) – EL503
  • Abrasive Pads (10/pk) – ELPAD
  • Hand Dynamometer – SS25LA
  • BP Cuff Transducer – SS19L
  • Electronic Stethoscope Transducer – SS30L
  • Air Flow Transducer – SS11LA
  • Calibration Syringe – AFT6A
  • Disposable Bacterial Filters (10/pk) – AFT1
  • Disposable Mouthpieces (10/pk) – AFT2
  • Disposable Noseclips (10/pk) – AFT3
  • Hand Switch – SS10L
  • Headphones – OUT1
  • Pulse Transducer – SS4LA
  • Signal Processing Breadboard Kit- SS39L

Perform 29 or more lessons with this core package:

Bioengineering

  • H02 Compartmental Modeling
  • H20 BME Filtering
  • H25 BME Signal Processing (8 modules)
  • H26 ECG R-wave Detector
  • H33 FFT Fast Fourier Transformation

Muscular

  • BSL1 Standard & Integrated EMG
  • BSL2 Motor Unit Recruitment & Fatigue
  • H07 EMG Contractions—Active Learning
  • H27 Facial EMG
  • H34 EGG Electrogastrogram
  • H36 Muscular Biofeedback

Cardiovascular

  • BSL5 Components of the ECG (Lead II)
  • BSL6 Leads I, II, III & Einthoven’s Law
  • BSL7 ECG & Pulse
  • BSL16 Blood Pressure & Korotkoff Sounds
  • BSL17 Heart Sounds & Cardiac Events
  • H08 Dive Reflex—Active Learning
  • H23 Signal Averaged ECG
  • H32 Heart Rate Variability

Pulmonary Function

  • BSL12 Pulmonary Function: Vol. & Capacities
  • BSL13 Pulmonary Flow Rates: FEV and MVV

Neurophysiology

  • BSL3 EEG Relaxation & Brain Rhythms
  • BSL4 Alpha Rhythms in the Occipital Lobe
  • BSL10 EOG Eye Movement, Saccades & Fixation
  • BSL11 Reaction Time
  • H10 EEG & Hemispheric Asymmetry
  • H12 EOG Saccades & Displacement
  • H13 EOG Visual Tracking vs. Imagination
  • H14 Ocular Fixation while reading
  • H15 Ocular Fixation while viewing an image
  • H16 Reflexes & Reaction Time – Active Learning

Easy to use yet powerful enough for advanced research applications, the Biopac Student Lab revolutionizes how students learn by eliminating complex setup tasks and letting them focus on learning the subject.

Free Student Download – Students can use this free BSL software to prepare for class by reading lessons or watching videos, and can also analyze, share, and submit data.

BSL Teaching Systems provide state-of-the-art technology, intuitive software, and industry standard hardware come together to provide world-class teaching solutions for the life sciences. Each system comes complete with:

Biopac Student Lab software—Powerful and flexible, yet easy to use, BSL 4 software allows students to get started right away. To run a lesson, simply select it from a menu. With easy software and hardware setup, students can focus on scientific principles, not procedure. BSL is provided in English and French; Translations of BSL 3.7.3 for Windows are available in Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.

The Biopac Student Lab system, BSL 4 greatly improves the lab experience with a dynamic user interface and enhanced capabilities.

Students can now take advantage of multi-media lessons with:

  • Full color onscreen guides
  • Embedded procedure videos
  • Data samples to ensure good data collection

BSL 4 also includes new advanced analysis options including:

  • Heart Rate Variability
  • Histogram
  • Cycle detector (Find Peak) updates
  • Enhanced event marker and preset options

The BSL System includes data acquisition hardware with built-in universal amplifiers to record and condition electrical signals from the heart, muscle, nerve, brain, eye, respiratory system, and tissue preparations. The data acquisition system receives the signals from electrodes and transducers. Biopac Student Lab software then displays the numbers as waveforms on the monitor. The data acquisition system connects to a PC running Windows® or Mac® OS X operating systems, via USB.

MP36/35 units have four input channels and the MP45 unit has two input channels. Electrodes, transducers, and/or input/output devices connect to the MP data acquisition unit so students can record data from their own heart signals (ECG), brain waves (EEG), muscle activity (EMG), eye movement (EOG), and more—or from animal or tissue preps.

One of the more complicated concepts for students to grasp is the fact that electricity is flowing throughout a living body at all times and that it is possible to use the signals to measure the performance and health of individual parts of the body. The Biopac Student Lab system helps to explain the concept and allows students to understand physiology.

Thousands of undergraduate labs worldwide use the Biopac Student Lab to teach physiology, pharmacology, biology, neuroscience, psychology, exercise physiology, and biomedical engineering. Click here for the BSL User List.

Publishers have adopted the curriculum materials and included them in commercially available published lab manuals.