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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

PROFESSOR MARTIN P. MINTCHEV, Ph.D., P.Eng., Fellow AIMBE

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary

Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Alberta

Director, Low-Frequency Instrumentation Laboratory, University of Calgary

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Office: Room A121A, Engineering Complex

University of Calgary

2500 University Drive NW

Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

Tel. (403) 220-5309, (403) 220-4872 (Secretary)

Fax: (403) 282-6855

e-mail: <mintchev@enel.ucalgary.ca >

ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTATION

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING / MEDICAL ELECTRONICS

OIL-FIELD INSTRUMENTATION

CREDENTIALS:

1987: B.Sc./MSc. (Hon) in Electronics from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria (combined degree)

1994: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

1994: PDF in Experimental Surgery, Surgical-Medical Research Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

1998: Professional Engineer, APEGGA;

2001: Honorary Professor (International Medical Association)

2002: Senior Member (IEEE);

2007: Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering;

2009: Honorary Professor (ITHEA International Scientific Society)

2010/2011: Distinguished Lecturer (IEEE Sensors Society)

TEACHING:

ENEL 569

Electronics for Instrumentation

ENEL 623

Biomedical Instrumentation

ENEL 469

Analog Electronic Circuits

ENEL 591/599

Individual Undergraduate Research Project

PUBLICATIONS, INVITED LECTURES, AND PATENTS

CITATION IMPACT

GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS

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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

I. BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION

I.1. Design of portable and implantable embedded systems for functional gastrointestinal neurostimulation;

I.2. Transcutaneous power transfer for functional gastrointestinal neurostimulators;

I.3. Multichannel sensing, signal conditioning, amplification and digitization of gastrointestinal signals;

I.4. Digital signal processing of gastrointestinal signals;

I.5. Non-invasive and semi-invasive sensing, monitoring and control of biomedical phenomena

II. OIL-FIELD INSTRUMENTATION

II.1. Design and testing of fiberoptic gyroscope-based inertial navigation systems for horizontal drilling applications;

II.2. Digital signal processing and conditioning of measurement-while-drilling data.

III. BIOMEMS

III.1. Design of system-on-chip instrumentation for monitoring and control of physiological processes;

III.2. Design of MEMS-based programmable implants

IV. COMPUTER MODELING

IV.1. Modeling of the electrical field and the electromechanical behavior of gastrointestinal organs;

IV.2. Modeling of gastric electrical stimulation;

IV.4. Neural-network based modeling of various physical processes (internal combustion, sensor arrays);

IV.5. Modeling fiberoptic gyroscopes for the purpose of drilling navigation.

V. ELECTROGASTROGRAPHY (CUTANEOUS RECORDING OF GASTRIC ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY) AND TECHNOLOGICAL METHODS TO ASSESS GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY.

V.1. Studies of gastric electrical activity both in vivo and in vitro;

V.2. Quantification of gastric electrical signals;

V.3. Clinical electrogastrographic studies;

VI. IMAGE PROCESSING

VI.1. Methods for non-linear compensation of susceptibility artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging;

VI.2. Magnetically levitated capsule endoscopy.