Dr. Craig Henriquez

The course (officially listed as MEMBRANES) was offered for the first time in its present form in the Spring semester 1996. One class period (1.5 hrs) was spent in the computer cluster to teach the use of various tools and to work on projects. All projects were performed on a university networked cluster of SUNSparcstation 5/85 computers with 64 MByte of RAM. Supplementary lectures were given to introduce students to the computational and algorithmic techniques and background physiology. The class projects were presented orally and in written format. Weekly written reports were used to monitor progress.

Computational Problems: The course involves three separate projects that are to be completed as part of a team.

• Project 1: Design a computer-based cardiac pacemaker.
• Project 2: Visualize the potential field of a dipole in a cube.
• Project 3: Choose between the following visualization projects: Perform a surface reconstruction of a human head from sampled contour data. Reconstruct an ultrasound image from the raw RF receive data.