当今的医疗器械变得更加复杂和多样化，这主要是因为它们结合了用于感测，转换，操纵，存储和显示数据或信息的电子系统。当今的医学诊断越来越依赖对大量生理参数的详细而准确的测量来诊断疾病，并规定了用于治疗这些疾病的复杂程序。在医疗器械获取和处理信息和数据以监测患者并诊断疾病的同时，医疗设备使用电能，机械能，化学能或辐射能来实现所需的治疗目的，维持生理功能或协助患者的康复过程。
Today's medical instruments are considerably more complicated and diverse, primarily because they incorporate electronic systems for sensing, transducing, manipulating, storing and displaying data or information. Medical diagnostic today more and more relies on detailed and accurate measurements of a vast number of physiologic parameters for diagnosing illnesses and prescribe complicated procedures for treating these. While medical instruments acquire and process information and data for monitoring patients and diagnosing illnesses, medical devices use electrical, mechanical, chemical or radiation energy for achieving a desired therapeutic purpose, maintaining physiologic functions or assisting a patient's healing process.<br><br>Development of novel clinical diagnostic, therapeutic and prosthetic devices based on advances in physiology research, materials, electronics and computational capabilities. Ongoing work includes use of vibromyography for diagnosis of osteoporosis, neural networks applied to heart auscultation, rapid sequencing of the human genome, self assembled materials, surface coatings to enhance tissue ingrowth and ultrasonic measurements of bone quality. The research topics include: Ultrasound - Diagnostic, Treatment, Biosensors.